80th pct · 594th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
Home value, one year
+2.2%
as of August 2026
41st pct · 1,801st of 3,063 US counties · median +2.9%
Typical rent
$1,746
as of August 2026
69th pct · 425th of 1,399 US counties · median $1,496
Jobs
84,998
as of 2026 Q1-01
89th pct · 345th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
Average weekly wage
$1,498
as of 2026 Q1-01
92nd pct · 237th of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
Years of wages per home
4.6
57th pct · 1,311th of 3,063 US counties · median 4.3
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.
Typical home $359,967 (Aug 2026), +2.2% over one year, +19.0% over five
80th pct · 594th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
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.
Item
Value
Distance
Shelby County
$359,967 · +2.2% 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.
Principal and interest of $1,970 a month on $359,967 at 7.28%, against an average weekly wage worth $6,491 a month: 30.4% of one job’s pay.
payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $359,967 × 80% = $287,974, r = 7.28%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-01), n = 360 → $1,970/mo principal and interest
wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $1,498 × 52 / 12 = $6,491) = 30% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
years of wages = $359,967 / ($1,498 × 52) = 4.6
price-to-rent = $359,967 / ($1,746 × 12) = 17.2
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.
84,998 jobs at 7,927 employers (2026 Q1); +0.9% jobs and +7.8% average weekly wage over the year
89th pct · 345th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
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.
Item
Value
Distance
Shelby County
84,998 jobs · $1,498/wk · +0.9% YoY
BLS QCEW, all ownerships, third month of the quarter. A location quotient of 1.00 means this county has the national share of its jobs in that sector; 2.00 means twice it. A withheld row is a BLS disclosure code N: the cell is absent, not zero.
NAICS sector
Jobs
Avg weekly wage
Location quotient
Jobs over the year
Retail trade
10,793
$810
1.30
+0.9%
Health care and social assistance
8,702
$1,190
0.68
-2.3%
Finance and insurance
8,382
$2,877
2.42
+0.5%
Accommodation and food services
7,830
$511
1.03
+2.2%
Professional and technical services
6,412
$1,835
1.09
+8.9%
Construction
5,550
$1,454
1.25
+3.4%
Administrative and waste services
5,289
$1,061
1.09
+5.1%
Manufacturing
5,205
$1,781
0.76
-1.8%
Wholesale trade
5,185
$2,095
1.59
-2.1%
Other services
2,706
$1,072
1.07
-3.9%
Management of companies
1,825
$3,128
1.28
-6.5%
Real estate and rental
1,700
$1,810
1.30
+11.3%
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.
$4.6 bn in deposits at 50 offices of 22 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 1,722, moderately concentrated. $1.5 bn federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $1.3 bn, grants $124.5 m), $18,048 per covered job
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.
Item
Value
Distance
Regions Bank
$1.6 bn · 33.8% share · 11 offices
Central State Bank
$781.5 m · 17.0% share · 6 offices
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association
$583.4 m · 12.7% share · 3 offices
Shelby, AL
$1.5 bn FY2026 · $18,048/job
FDIC Summary of Deposits, June 2026. These are institution offices, not people: the row is a bank's presence in the county.
Institution
Deposits
Share
Offices
Regions Bank
$1,553,555,000
33.8%
11
Central State Bank
$781,505,000
17.0%
6
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association
$583,418,000
12.7%
3
PNC Bank, National Association
$282,291,000
6.1%
4
Renasant Bank
$280,800,000
6.1%
4
Bryant Bank
$207,927,000
4.5%
2
The Huntington National Bank
$119,175,000
2.6%
1
Pinnacle Bank
$111,868,000
2.4%
2
Valley National Bank
$101,023,000
2.2%
2
First US Bank
$100,931,000
2.2%
2
Deposit concentration is 1,722 across 22 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls moderately concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 22 banks with deposits in the county = 33.8² + 17.0² + 12.7² + … (19 more) = 1,722
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.
unavailableretrieved 2026-10-02USAspending did not return a recipient, agency and NAICS breakdown for this county.
That is $18,048 per covered job, against 84,998 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $1.5 bn / 84,998 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $18,048
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.
These are United States, single-gauge, single-state and port series. None of them is keyed to this county.
The national indicator set, unfiltered by place.
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
16.50
2026-09-30
-11.7%
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 · %
71.30
2026-10-01
+0.1%
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 · %
4.10
2026-08-01
+0.0%
US goods and services trade balance, monthly · $ millions
-88,576.00
2026-07-01
-24.4%
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.
noteFIPS 01117, AL's average weekly wage was 7.8% higher than the same quarter a year earlier in 2026 Q1, on BLS QCEW's published over-the-year change.
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+7.8 % = 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
noteFIPS 01117, AL's covered employment was 0.9% higher than the same quarter a year earlier in 2026 Q1, on BLS QCEW's published over-the-year change.
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+0.9 % = 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
noteFIPS 01117, AL's average weekly wage of $1,498 ranks 237th of 3,221 US counties, against a median of $1,039.
Period 2026 Q1.
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93 on the 0-to-100 scale across 3221 US counties that published jobs.avgWeeklyWage
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteThe next Unemployment rate (BLS Employment Situation, monthly) covering FIPS 01117, AL is due between 2026-09-25 and 2026-10-09, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern.
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window = 2026-09-25 to 2026-10-09, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern
estimated from the publisher's past release pattern; not an announced date
noteThe next Zillow ZHVI typical home value (monthly) covering FIPS 01117, AL is due between 2026-10-14 and 2026-10-21, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern.
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window = 2026-10-14 to 2026-10-21, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern
estimated from the publisher's past release pattern; not an announced date