Greene County, AL
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 32.84, -87.96.
Assembled 2026-10-06. Read the brief.
- 11th pct · 2,708th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 13th pct · 58th of 67 Alabama counties · median $183,308
- counties in the Tuscaloosa metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 4 counties in the Tuscaloosa metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 79th pct · 621st of 3,063 US counties · median +2.9%
- 93rd pct · 5th of 67 Alabama counties · median +2.2%
- counties in the Tuscaloosa metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 4 counties in the Tuscaloosa metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- US counties: not published this period
- Alabama counties: not published this period
- counties in the Tuscaloosa metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 4 counties in the Tuscaloosa metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 13th pct · 2,781st of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 1st pct · 66th of 67 Alabama counties · median 10,118
- counties in the Tuscaloosa metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 4 counties in the Tuscaloosa metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 20th pct · 2,547th of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 6th pct · 63rd of 67 Alabama counties · median $1,024
- counties in the Tuscaloosa metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 4 counties in the Tuscaloosa metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 18th pct · 2,506th of 3,063 US counties · median 4.3
- 31st pct · 46th of 67 Alabama counties · median 3.3
- counties in the Tuscaloosa metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 4 counties in the Tuscaloosa 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 $138,466 (Aug 2026), +6.0% over one year, -2.6% over five
- 11th pct · 2,708th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 13th pct · 58th of 67 Alabama counties · median $183,308
- counties in the Tuscaloosa metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 4 counties in the Tuscaloosa metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Greene County, AL | $138,466 · +6.0% 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 #
Zillow publishes no rent index for this area (ZORI covers about 1,400 counties)
- US counties: not published this period
- Alabama counties: not published this period
- counties in the Tuscaloosa metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 4 counties in the Tuscaloosa metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
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 $758 a month on $138,466 at 7.28%, against an average weekly wage worth $3,939 a month: 19.2% of one job’s pay.
- payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $138,466 × 80% = $110,773, r = 7.28%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-01), n = 360 → $758/mo principal and interest
- wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $909 × 52 / 12 = $3,939) = 19% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
- years of wages = $138,466 / ($909 × 52) = 2.9
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 #
1,729 jobs at 178 employers (2026 Q1); -3.4% jobs and +5.1% average weekly wage over the year
- 13th pct · 2,781st of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 1st pct · 66th of 67 Alabama counties · median 10,118
- counties in the Tuscaloosa metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 4 counties in the Tuscaloosa metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Greene County, AL | 1,729 jobs · $909/wk · -3.4% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manufacturing | 463 | $1,075 | 3.33 | +0.0% |
| Retail trade | 224 | $502 | 1.33 | +7.2% |
| Construction | 83 | $1,463 | 0.92 | -38.1% |
| Other services | 55 | $536 | 1.06 | -28.6% |
| Agriculture, forestry, fishing | withheld | |||
| Utilities | withheld | |||
| Wholesale trade | withheld | |||
| Transportation and warehousing | withheld | |||
| Information | withheld | |||
| Finance and insurance | withheld | |||
| Real estate and rental | withheld | |||
| Professional and technical services | withheld |
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 #
$112.4 m in deposits at 2 offices of 2 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 7,286, highly concentrated. $83.3 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $57.2 m, grants $22.0 m), $48,157 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Merchants & Farmers Bank of Greene County, Alabama | $94.2 m · 83.8% share · 1 office | |
| Citizens Trust Bank | $18.2 m · 16.2% share · 1 office | |
| Greene, AL | $83.3 m FY2026 · $48,157/job | |
| MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS | $54.4 m · top recipient FY2026 |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| Merchants & Farmers Bank of Greene County, Alabama | $94,240,000 | 83.8% | 1 |
| Citizens Trust Bank | $18,207,000 | 16.2% | 1 |
Deposit concentration is 7,286 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 = 83.8² + 16.2² = 7,286
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 | $47,068,502 |
| Department of Transportation | $18,897,466 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $6,988,541 |
| Department of Defense | $3,715,678 |
| Department of Agriculture | $3,433,677 |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | $1,484,703 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | $962,268 |
| Railroad Retirement Board | $309,764 |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $227,464 |
| Federal Communications Commission | $131,466 |
| Department of Homeland Security | $43,087 |
That is $48,157 per covered job, against 1,729 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $83.3 m / 1,729 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $48,157
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 | 12.69 | 2026-10-05 | +3.3% |
| 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 · % | 72.60 | 2026-10-06 | +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 | 6.00 | 2026-09-22 | -14.3% |
| Shanghai to Los Angeles container rate · $ per 40 ft box | 6,830.00 | 2026-08-01 | +7.4% |
| US diesel retail price · $ per gallon | unavailable | not published | |
| WTI crude oil, spot · $ per barrel | 96.16 | 2026-09-29 | -3.2% |
| 30-year fixed mortgage rate · % | 7.28 | 2026-10-01 | +3.6% |
| 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 | 646,347.00 | 2026-08-01 | +1.1% |
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 #
Greene County, AL: 10 findings, 1 at an alert level, 1 at a watch level and 8 noted
alertGreene County, AL's covered employment is -3.4% 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 = -3.4 <= -3
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level
watchGreene County, AL's covered employment is -3.4% 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 = -3.4 < 0
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level
noteGreene County, AL's average weekly wage was 5.1% 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
- +5.1 % = 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
noteGreene County, AL's covered employment was 3.4% 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
- -3.4 % = 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
noteGreene County, AL's typical home value rose 0.6% from $137,591 in July 2026 to $138,466 in August 2026, on Zillow ZHVI.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- +0.6% = (138466.1956881512 - 137590.554383382) / 137590.554383382 × 100
- 138466.1956881512 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-08
- 137590.554383382 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-07
Read all 10 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.