Antelope County, NE

Home values #

Typical home $214,956 (Sep 2026), +4.2% over one year, +23.9% over five

• 43rd pct · 1,719th of 3,063 US counties · median $230,451
• 51st pct · 44th of 89 Nebraska counties · median $214,386

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
• Nebraska 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 $1,191 a month on $214,956 at 7.40%, against an average weekly wage worth $3,948 a month: 30.2% of one job’s pay.

• payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $214,956 × 80% = $171,965, r = 7.40%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-15), n = 360 → $1,191/mo principal and interest
• wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $911 × 52 / 12 = $3,948) = 30% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
• years of wages = $214,956 / ($911 × 52) = 4.5

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 #

2,183 jobs at 298 employers (2026 Q1); +1.9% jobs and +3.3% average weekly wage over the year

• 17th pct · 2,649th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
• 52nd pct · 45th of 93 Nebraska counties · median 2,151

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 #

D1 moderate 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 #

30 gauges · 0 flooding · 2 with quality panels averaging 90 % · 5 stale

Sites found: 30, 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 #

8 wells in 0 named aquifers:

Sites found: 8, 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 #

low (0.20)

Σ wᵢ·termᵢ / Σ wᵢ = 0.35×0.25 + 0.2×0.10 / 0.55

Banks & federal dollars #

$348.8 m in deposits at 7 offices of 6 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 2,212, highly concentrated. $68.7 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $51.4 m, contracts $12.3 m), $31,456 per covered job

Deposit concentration is 2,212 across 6 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls highly concentrated.

HHI = Σ (share %)² over 6 banks with deposits in the county = 29.6² + 21.4² + 21.1² + … (3 more) = 2,212

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 $31,456 per covered job, against 2,183 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.

per job = FY2026 obligations $68.7 m / 2,183 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $31,456

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 #

Antelope County, NE: 6 findings, 1 at a watch level and 5 noted

1. watchAntelope County, NE's covered employment of 2,183 scores 18 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 52 across Nebraska counties, a gap of 34 points.

   Period 2026 Q1.
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   • 34 = |18 across US counties - 52 across Nebraska counties|

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

2. noteAntelope County, NE's average weekly wage was 3.3% higher than the same quarter a year earlier in 2026 Q1, on BLS QCEW's published over-the-year change.

   Period 2026 Q1.
   Show the arithmetic

   • +3.3 % = 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. noteAntelope County, NE's covered employment was 1.9% higher than the same quarter a year earlier in 2026 Q1, on BLS QCEW's published over-the-year change.

   Period 2026 Q1.
   Show the arithmetic

   • +1.9 % = 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

4. noteAntelope County, NE's typical home value fell 0.5% from $215,970 in August 2026 to $214,956 in September 2026, on Zillow ZHVI.

   Period 2026-09.
   Show the arithmetic

   • -0.5% = (214955.88114907037 - 215970.07659131827) / 215970.07659131827 × 100
   • 214955.88114907037 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-09
   • 215970.07659131827 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-08

5. noteThe next Unemployment rate (BLS Employment Situation, monthly) covering Antelope County, NE is due between 2026-10-30 and 2026-11-13, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern.

   Show the arithmetic

   • window = 2026-10-30 to 2026-11-13, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern

   estimated from the publisher's past release pattern; not an announced date

Read all 6 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.