Kanabec County, MN

Home values #

Typical home $270,028 (Sep 2026), +5.7% over one year, +23.4% over five

• 62nd pct · 1,143rd of 3,063 US counties · median $230,451
• 50th pct · 44th of 87 Minnesota counties · median $270,028

Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), typical value of homes in the 35th to 65th percentile, smoothed and seasonally adjusted; a model estimate of value, not a sale price. Data through Zillow Research.

Rents #

Zillow publishes no rent index for this area (ZORI covers about 1,400 counties)

• US counties: not published this period
• Minnesota counties: not published this period

Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI), smoothed, all homes and multifamily; price-to-rent = typical home / (typical rent × 12).

What the typical home costs to carry #

Principal and interest of $1,496 a month on $270,028 at 7.40%, against an average weekly wage worth $4,775 a month: 31.3% of one job’s pay.

• payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $270,028 × 80% = $216,022, r = 7.40%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-15), n = 360 → $1,496/mo principal and interest
• wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $1,102 × 52 / 12 = $4,775) = 31% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
• years of wages = $270,028 / ($1,102 × 52) = 4.7

The wage is one covered job’s average, not a household’s income, so this is the share of a single paycheque and not a mortgage underwriting ratio.

Estimate. Principal and interest on the typical home with 20% down over 30 years at this week's Freddie Mac average rate; compared with the average weekly wage of all jobs covered by unemployment insurance in the area (BLS QCEW), which is pay per job, not household income.

Jobs & wages #

4,427 jobs at 371 employers (2026 Q1); +11.5% jobs and +10.9% average weekly wage over the year

• 33rd pct · 2,129th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
• 30th pct · 61st of 87 Minnesota counties · median 7,739

BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, all ownerships, total covered employment in the quarter's third month; over-the-year changes as published. Suppressed cells stay blank.

Drought #

D2 severe drought

Sites found: 5, searched within 0 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 0 km away are not.

US Drought Monitor current week; the highest class of any polygon containing the point.

Reservoirs #

No reservoir gauges within 150 km (or the camera is above the gauge altitude)

Sites found: 0, searched within 150 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 150 km away are not.

Σ(capacity × percent full) / Σ capacity over TWDB reservoirs within 150 km. Texas only; elsewhere USGS reservoir elevation/storage is listed without a capacity to normalise by.

Stream gauges #

29 gauges · 0 flooding · 3 with quality panels averaging 100 % · 7 stale

Sites found: 29, searched within 75 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 75 km away are not.

USGS latest readings screened against EPA freshwater criteria (DO ≥ 5 mg/L, pH 6.5–9, conductance, turbidity, temperature); NWS flood categories where a NWPS gauge is co-located.

Groundwater #

16 wells in 0 named aquifers:

Sites found: 16, searched within 75 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 75 km away are not.

USGS latest daily water levels. A single latest reading says where the table is, not which way it is moving; select a well for its 365-day trace.

Water stress #

moderate (0.32)

Σ wᵢ·termᵢ / Σ wᵢ = 0.35×0.50 + 0.2×0.00 / 0.55

Banks & federal dollars #

$354.1 m in deposits at 3 offices of 2 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 5,183, highly concentrated. $115.7 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $113.1 m, grants $2.5 m), $26,131 per covered job

Deposit concentration is 5,183 across 2 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls highly concentrated.

HHI = Σ (share %)² over 2 banks with deposits in the county = 59.6² + 40.4² = 5,183

FDIC Summary of Deposits: deposits at every insured office as of June 30, annual; HHI is the sum of squared county deposit shares (DOJ 1995 bank merger screen: 1000 / 1800). USAspending: obligations by place of performance for the latest complete federal fiscal year (Oct 1 to Sep 30), what agencies committed, not what they paid out; recipients are legal entities. Per-job divides obligations by BLS QCEW covered employment.

Federal obligations #

USAspending place-of-performance obligations for FY2026, by awarding agency.

That is $26,131 per covered job, against 4,427 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.

per job = FY2026 obligations $115.7 m / 4,427 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $26,131

USAspending obligations are recorded where the work is performed, so a prime award performed here is counted here even when the recipient is headquartered elsewhere. Recipients are legal entities, never people.

National context, not this county #

These are United States, single-gauge, single-state and port series. None of them is keyed to this county.

The indicator registry has no county-keyed series and no geographic selection: every entry is national, a named gauge, a single state or a port. They are here as the backdrop the county's own numbers move against, and they are never this county's readings.

What changed #

Kanabec County, MN: 8 findings, 8 noted

1. noteKanabec County, MN's covered employment was 11.5% higher than the same quarter a year earlier in 2026 Q1, on BLS QCEW's published over-the-year change.

   Period 2026 Q1.
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   • +11.5 % = BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change for 2026 Q1, as published
   • the newest QCEW file carries no year-earlier level, so no move from one level to another is printed

   BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published

2. noteKanabec County, MN's average weekly wage was 10.9% higher than the same quarter a year earlier in 2026 Q1, on BLS QCEW's published over-the-year change.

   Period 2026 Q1.
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   • +10.9 % = BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change for 2026 Q1, as published
   • the newest QCEW file carries no year-earlier level, so no move from one level to another is printed

   BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published

3. noteKanabec County, MN's covered employment of +11.5% ranks 1st of 87 Minnesota counties, against a median of -0.5%.

   Period 2026 Q1.
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   • 100 on the 0-to-100 scale across 87 Minnesota counties that published jobs.yoy.emp

   position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level

4. noteKanabec County, MN's covered employment of +11.5% ranks 43rd of 3,221 US counties, against a median of -0.2%.

   Period 2026 Q1.
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   • 99 on the 0-to-100 scale across 3221 US counties that published jobs.yoy.emp

   position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level

5. noteKanabec County, MN's momentum index of 0.85 ranks 55th of 3,221 US counties, against a median of 0.23.

   Period 2026-09.
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   • 98 on the 0-to-100 scale across 3221 US counties that published momentum
   • momentum = Σ wᵢ · clip(changeᵢ / scaleᵢ, −1, 1) / Σ wᵢ over the terms present; weights and scales: home value 1-yr change 0.3 (±10%), rent 1-yr change 0.15 (±10%), jobs over-the-year change 0.3 (±3%), avg weekly wage over-the-year change 0.25 (±6%)

   position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level

Read all 8 findings in the full brief

Every finding is produced by a fixed rule table and a fixed sentence for each rule. Nothing here is generated prose.