Nash County, NC
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 35.97, -77.99.
Assembled 2026-10-19. Read the brief.
- 51st pct · 1,498th of 3,063 US counties · median $230,451
- 35th pct · 65th of 100 North Carolina counties · median $270,749
- counties in the Rocky Mount metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 2 counties in the Rocky Mount metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 34th pct · 1,998th of 3,062 US counties · median +2.9%
- 57th pct · 43rd of 100 North Carolina counties · median +1.1%
- counties in the Rocky Mount metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 2 counties in the Rocky Mount metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 39th pct · 826th of 1,358 US counties · median $1,506
- 27th pct · 45th of 62 North Carolina counties · median $1,550
- counties in the Rocky Mount metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 2 counties in the Rocky Mount metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 80th pct · 618th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 73rd pct · 27th of 100 North Carolina counties · median 16,739
- counties in the Rocky Mount metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 2 counties in the Rocky Mount metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 67th pct · 1,054th of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 79th pct · 21st of 100 North Carolina counties · median $984
- counties in the Rocky Mount metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 2 counties in the Rocky Mount metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 45th pct · 1,670th of 3,063 US counties · median 4.2
- 30th pct · 70th of 100 North Carolina counties · median 5.0
- counties in the Rocky Mount metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 2 counties in the Rocky Mount metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
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 $234,011 (Sep 2026), +1.5% over one year, +29.0% over five
- 51st pct · 1,498th of 3,063 US counties · median $230,451
- 35th pct · 65th of 100 North Carolina counties · median $270,749
- counties in the Rocky Mount metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 2 counties in the Rocky Mount metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Nash County, NC | $234,011 · +1.5% 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 $1,391/mo (Sep 2026), +2.3% over one year; price-to-rent 14.0
- 39th pct · 826th of 1,358 US counties · median $1,506
- 27th pct · 45th of 62 North Carolina counties · median $1,550
- counties in the Rocky Mount metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 2 counties in the Rocky Mount metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Nash County, NC | $1,391/mo · +2.3% 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 $1,296 a month on $234,011 at 7.40%, against an average weekly wage worth $4,884 a month: 26.5% of one job’s pay.
- payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $234,011 × 80% = $187,208, r = 7.40%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-15), n = 360 → $1,296/mo principal and interest
- wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $1,127 × 52 / 12 = $4,884) = 27% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
- years of wages = $234,011 / ($1,127 × 52) = 4.0
- price-to-rent = $234,011 / ($1,391 × 12) = 14.0
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 #
39,003 jobs at 2,418 employers (2026 Q1); -3.3% jobs and +0.2% average weekly wage over the year
- 80th pct · 618th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 73rd pct · 27th of 100 North Carolina counties · median 16,739
- counties in the Rocky Mount metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 2 counties in the Rocky Mount metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Nash County, NC | 39,003 jobs · $1,127/wk · -3.3% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manufacturing | 7,030 | $1,688 | 2.24 | -10.2% |
| Retail trade | 4,783 | $677 | 1.26 | -0.7% |
| Health care and social assistance | 3,892 | $882 | 0.66 | +1.5% |
| Accommodation and food services | 3,756 | $395 | 1.07 | -0.7% |
| Construction | 2,672 | $1,447 | 1.31 | +6.6% |
| Wholesale trade | 2,377 | $1,417 | 1.59 | -2.0% |
| Administrative and waste services | 1,493 | $686 | 0.67 | -21.0% |
| Other services | 1,069 | $935 | 0.92 | -11.3% |
| Finance and insurance | 919 | $1,919 | 0.58 | -2.3% |
| Professional and technical services | 844 | $1,552 | 0.31 | -3.7% |
| Educational services | 679 | $799 | 0.81 | -7.9% |
| Management of companies | 625 | $1,614 | 0.96 | +3.6% |
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 #
$3.5 bn in deposits at 24 offices of 11 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 1,687, moderately concentrated. $720.8 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $680.3 m, contracts $27.1 m), $18,481 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| First Carolina Bank | $926.2 m · 26.4% share · 1 office | |
| Providence Bank | $705.2 m · 20.1% share · 3 offices | |
| Southern Bank and Trust Company | $604.2 m · 17.2% share · 5 offices | |
| Nash, NC | $720.8 m FY2026 · $18,481/job | |
| MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS | $655.2 m · top recipient FY2026 |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Carolina Bank | $926,229,000 | 26.4% | 1 |
| Providence Bank | $705,242,000 | 20.1% | 3 |
| Southern Bank and Trust Company | $604,224,000 | 17.2% | 5 |
| Truist Bank | $377,149,000 | 10.7% | 2 |
| PNC Bank, National Association | $347,242,000 | 9.9% | 4 |
| Wells Fargo Bank, National Association | $240,063,000 | 6.8% | 2 |
| First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company | $154,289,000 | 4.4% | 1 |
| United Bank | $122,952,000 | 3.5% | 2 |
| The First Bank and Trust Company | $19,688,000 | 0.6% | 1 |
| KS Bank, Inc. | $8,184,000 | 0.2% | 1 |
Deposit concentration is 1,687 across 11 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls moderately concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 11 banks with deposits in the county = 26.4² + 20.1² + 17.2² + … (8 more) = 1,687
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.
| Awarding agency | Obligations |
|---|---|
| Social Security Administration | $543,188,899 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $101,400,871 |
| Department of Defense | $26,164,950 |
| Department of Education | $11,666,871 |
| Railroad Retirement Board | $10,701,837 |
| Department of Transportation | $10,548,453 |
| Department of Agriculture | $9,540,108 |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | $4,023,481 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | $2,137,492 |
| Federal Communications Commission | $867,819 |
| Department of Homeland Security | $561,980 |
| Small Business Administration | $0 |
That is $18,481 per covered job, against 39,003 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $720.8 m / 39,003 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $18,481
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 #
Nash County, NC: 11 findings, 1 at an alert level, 1 at a watch level and 9 noted
alertNash County, NC's covered employment is -3.3% against a year earlier, an alert level here: covered employment at least 3 percent below the same quarter a year earlier (BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; convention chosen for this dashboard, 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 = -3.3 <= -3
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level
watchNash County, NC's covered employment is -3.3% 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 = -3.3 < 0
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level
noteNash County, NC's covered employment was 3.3% 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
- -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
noteNash County, NC's typical asking rent rose 0.9% from $1,379 in August 2026 to $1,391 in September 2026, on Zillow ZORI.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- +0.9% = (1391.4711538461536 - 1379.1574041707117) / 1379.1574041707117 × 100
- 1391.4711538461536 = Zillow ZORI, 2026-09
- 1379.1574041707117 = Zillow ZORI, 2026-08
noteNash County, NC's average weekly wage was 0.2% 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
- +0.2 % = 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
Read all 11 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.