Alamance County, NC
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 36.04, -79.40.
Assembled 2026-10-19. Read the brief.
- 68th pct · 977th of 3,063 US counties · median $230,451
- 60th pct · 40th of 100 North Carolina counties · median $270,749
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- 29th pct · 2,160th of 3,062 US counties · median +2.9%
- 47th pct · 53rd of 100 North Carolina counties · median +1.1%
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- 34th pct · 895th of 1,358 US counties · median $1,506
- 18th pct · 51st of 62 North Carolina counties · median $1,550
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- 87th pct · 415th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 83rd pct · 17th of 100 North Carolina counties · median 16,739
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- 64th pct · 1,147th of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 76th pct · 24th of 100 North Carolina counties · median $984
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- 66th pct · 1,037th of 3,063 US counties · median 4.2
- 50th pct · 50th of 100 North Carolina counties · median 5.0
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Typical home value divided by the average annual wage of one covered job.
A percentile here is a min-max scaling of average rank: the smallest published value in the cohort is 0 and the largest is 100, and tied values share the average of the ranks they span. It is not the share of entities below the value, so 0 means smallest, not none below. Entities that did not publish the metric are outside the cohort entirely and are counted in neither the rank nor its denominator.
Home values #
Typical home $290,921 (Sep 2026), +1.0% over one year, +31.7% over five
- 68th pct · 977th of 3,063 US counties · median $230,451
- 60th pct · 40th of 100 North Carolina counties · median $270,749
- counties in the Burlington metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 1 counties in the Burlington metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Alamance County, NC | $290,921 · +1.0% 1-yr |
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 #
Typical rent $1,339/mo (Sep 2026), +2.9% over one year; price-to-rent 18.1
- 34th pct · 895th of 1,358 US counties · median $1,506
- 18th pct · 51st of 62 North Carolina counties · median $1,550
- counties in the Burlington metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 1 counties in the Burlington metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Alamance County, NC | $1,339/mo · +2.9% 1-yr |
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 $1,611 a month on $290,921 at 7.40%, against an average weekly wage worth $4,819 a month: 33.4% of one job’s pay.
- payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $290,921 × 80% = $232,736, r = 7.40%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-15), n = 360 → $1,611/mo principal and interest
- wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $1,112 × 52 / 12 = $4,819) = 33% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
- years of wages = $290,921 / ($1,112 × 52) = 5.0
- price-to-rent = $290,921 / ($1,339 × 12) = 18.1
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 #
66,595 jobs at 4,398 employers (2026 Q1); -1.4% jobs and +4.7% average weekly wage over the year
- 87th pct · 415th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 83rd pct · 17th of 100 North Carolina counties · median 16,739
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| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Alamance County, NC | 66,595 jobs · $1,112/wk · -1.4% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health care and social assistance | 11,295 | $1,550 | 1.13 | -7.9% |
| Retail trade | 10,061 | $718 | 1.55 | +0.6% |
| Manufacturing | 7,617 | $1,347 | 1.42 | -3.3% |
| Accommodation and food services | 7,321 | $411 | 1.22 | +1.0% |
| Administrative and waste services | 4,145 | $741 | 1.10 | +4.3% |
| Transportation and warehousing | 3,132 | $1,046 | 1.12 | -19.0% |
| Educational services | 2,404 | $1,267 | 1.68 | -2.2% |
| Wholesale trade | 2,140 | $1,449 | 0.84 | +6.5% |
| Other services | 1,817 | $867 | 0.91 | -3.0% |
| Professional and technical services | 1,813 | $1,441 | 0.39 | +11.3% |
| Finance and insurance | 1,536 | $2,658 | 0.57 | -0.7% |
| Arts, entertainment and recreation | 752 | $350 | 0.69 | -3.3% |
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 #
Surface water layer not loaded
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 #
Surface water layer not loaded
Sites found: 0, 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 #
No USGS monitoring wells within 75 km (or above 1,500 km)
Sites found: 0, 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 (0.25)
Σ wᵢ·termᵢ / Σ wᵢ = 0.35×0.25 / 0.35
Banks & federal dollars #
$2.8 bn in deposits at 28 offices of 14 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 1,339, moderately concentrated. $1.0 bn federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $1.1 bn, grants $7.1 m), $15,731 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Truist Bank | $629.6 m · 22.3% share · 4 offices | |
| Wells Fargo Bank, National Association | $568.6 m · 20.1% share · 5 offices | |
| Atlantic Union Bank | $321.3 m · 11.4% share · 3 offices | |
| Alamance, NC | $1.0 bn FY2026 · $15,731/job |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| Truist Bank | $629,619,000 | 22.3% | 4 |
| Wells Fargo Bank, National Association | $568,569,000 | 20.1% | 5 |
| Atlantic Union Bank | $321,316,000 | 11.4% | 3 |
| Bank of America, National Association | $272,751,000 | 9.7% | 1 |
| First Horizon Bank | $252,604,000 | 8.9% | 4 |
| The Fidelity Bank | $205,899,000 | 7.3% | 2 |
| Pinnacle Bank | $187,441,000 | 6.6% | 1 |
| First Bank | $121,185,000 | 4.3% | 1 |
| PNC Bank, National Association | $86,549,000 | 3.1% | 1 |
| First National Bank of Pennsylvania | $53,735,000 | 1.9% | 1 |
Deposit concentration is 1,339 across 14 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls moderately concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 14 banks with deposits in the county = 22.3² + 20.1² + 11.4² + … (11 more) = 1,339
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 #
That is $15,731 per covered job, against 66,595 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $1.0 bn / 66,595 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $15,731
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.
| Series | Latest | As of | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi River at Memphis, stage · ft | not published | not published | |
| Mississippi River at St. Louis, stage · ft | not published | not published | |
| Ohio River at Louisville, stage · ft | 17.95 | 2026-10-18 | -2.6% |
| Missouri River at St. Joseph, stage · ft | not published | not published | |
| Colorado River below Hoover Dam, flow (Hoover releases) · ft³/s | 5,170.00 | 2026-02-05 | -25.3% |
| Texas reservoirs, statewide percent full · % | 72.20 | 2026-10-19 | +0.0% |
| Laredo truck crossings, monthly · trucks | 258,700.00 | 2026-08-01 | -0.4% |
| Los Angeles + Long Beach container volume, annual · TEU | 10,513,167.00 | 2023-01-01 | -13.5% |
| Containerships waiting for a berth, all US ports · ships | 7.00 | 2026-10-13 | +133.3% |
| Shanghai to Los Angeles container rate · $ per 40 ft box | 7,848.00 | 2026-09-01 | +14.9% |
| US diesel retail price · $ per gallon | unavailable | not published | |
| WTI crude oil, spot · $ per barrel | 101.91 | 2026-10-14 | +1.0% |
| 30-year fixed mortgage rate · % | 7.40 | 2026-10-15 | +0.0% |
| Housing starts, annual rate · thousands of units | 1,275.00 | 2026-08-01 | -2.6% |
| Building permits, annual rate · thousands of units | 1,403.00 | 2026-08-01 | -2.1% |
| Case-Shiller US home price index · index, Jan 2000 = 100 | 337.31 | 2026-07-01 | +0.1% |
| Unemployment rate · % | 4.20 | 2026-09-01 | +2.4% |
| US goods and services trade balance, monthly · $ millions | -105,572.00 | 2026-08-01 | -13.7% |
| Retail sales excluding food services, monthly · $ millions | 652,115.00 | 2026-09-01 | +0.7% |
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 #
Alamance County, NC: 7 findings, 1 at a watch level and 6 noted
watchAlamance County, NC's covered employment is -1.4% against a year earlier, a watch level here: covered employment below the same quarter a year earlier (BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level). The previous published period is not in this table, so this is a standing level rather than a change.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- test: jobs.yoy.emp = -1.4 < 0
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level
noteAlamance County, NC's average weekly wage was 4.7% 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
- +4.7 % = 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
noteAlamance County, NC's covered employment was 1.4% lower 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
- -1.4 % = 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
noteAlamance County, NC's typical asking rent rose 0.4% from $1,334 in August 2026 to $1,339 in September 2026, on Zillow ZORI.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- +0.4% = (1339.2114423035475 - 1334.26859893778) / 1334.26859893778 × 100
- 1339.2114423035475 = Zillow ZORI, 2026-09
- 1334.26859893778 = Zillow ZORI, 2026-08
noteThe next Unemployment rate (BLS Employment Situation, monthly) covering Alamance County, NC 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
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