Calhoun County, AR
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 33.56, -92.51.
Assembled 2026-10-06. Read the brief.
- 11th pct · 2,709th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 30th pct · 52nd of 74 Arkansas counties · median $169,663
- 84th pct · 480th of 3,063 US counties · median +2.9%
- 89th pct · 9th of 74 Arkansas counties · median +3.0%
- US counties: not published this period
- Arkansas counties: not published this period
- 29th pct · 2,277th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 32nd pct · 51st of 75 Arkansas counties · median 5,609
- 95th pct · 149th of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 98th pct · 2nd of 75 Arkansas counties · median $912
- 1st pct · 3,017th of 3,063 US counties · median 4.3
- 5th pct · 70th of 74 Arkansas counties · median 3.6
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 $138,401 (Aug 2026), +6.7% over one year, -1.0% over five
- 11th pct · 2,709th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 30th pct · 52nd of 74 Arkansas counties · median $169,663
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Calhoun County, AR | $138,401 · +6.7% 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
- Arkansas 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 $758 a month on $138,401 at 7.28%, against an average weekly wage worth $7,089 a month: 10.7% of one job’s pay.
- payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $138,401 × 80% = $110,721, 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 $1,636 × 52 / 12 = $7,089) = 11% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
- years of wages = $138,401 / ($1,636 × 52) = 1.6
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 #
3,666 jobs at 100 employers (2026 Q1); +10.5% jobs and +7.7% average weekly wage over the year
- 29th pct · 2,277th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 32nd pct · 51st of 75 Arkansas counties · median 5,609
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Calhoun County, AR | 3,666 jobs · $1,636/wk · +10.5% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manufacturing | 3,054 | $1,765 | 10.36 | +13.2% |
| Transportation and warehousing | 91 | $1,061 | 0.59 | -6.2% |
| Construction | 46 | $988 | 0.24 | -19.3% |
| Agriculture, forestry, fishing | withheld | |||
| Mining, oil and gas | withheld | |||
| Utilities | withheld | |||
| Retail trade | withheld | |||
| Information | withheld | |||
| Finance and insurance | withheld | |||
| Professional and technical services | withheld | |||
| Management of companies | withheld | |||
| Administrative and waste 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 #
D2 severe 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 #
high (0.50)
Σ wᵢ·termᵢ / Σ wᵢ = 0.35×0.50 / 0.35
Banks & federal dollars #
$72.6 m in deposits at 2 offices of 2 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 7,616, highly concentrated. $167.7 m federal obligations in FY2026 (contracts $125.3 m, direct payments $34.2 m), $45,746 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Generations Bank | $62.5 m · 86.2% share · 1 office | |
| Commercial Bank & Trust Company | $10.0 m · 13.8% share · 1 office | |
| Calhoun, AR | $167.7 m FY2026 · $45,746/job | |
| GENERAL DYNAMICS-OTS, INC. | $125.3 m · top recipient FY2026 |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| Generations Bank | $62,527,000 | 86.2% | 1 |
| Commercial Bank & Trust Company | $10,039,000 | 13.8% | 1 |
Deposit concentration is 7,616 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 = 86.2² + 13.8² = 7,616
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 |
|---|---|
| Department of Defense | $125,270,872 |
| Social Security Administration | $27,626,792 |
| Department of Education | $6,343,006 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | $3,381,291 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $2,847,607 |
| Delta Regional Authority | $1,550,000 |
| Federal Communications Commission | $354,916 |
| Department of Agriculture | $259,609 |
| Railroad Retirement Board | $256,395 |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | $6,860 |
| Department of Transportation | -$190,980 |
That is $45,746 per covered job, against 3,666 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $167.7 m / 3,666 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $45,746
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 #
Calhoun County, AR: 12 findings, 12 noted
noteCalhoun County, AR's covered employment was 10.5% 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
- +10.5 % = 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
noteCalhoun County, AR's average weekly wage was 7.7% 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
- +7.7 % = 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
noteCalhoun County, AR's typical home value rose 0.5% from $137,702 in July 2026 to $138,401 in August 2026, on Zillow ZHVI.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- +0.5% = (138401.12218296365 - 137701.51158623767) / 137701.51158623767 × 100
- 138401.12218296365 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-08
- 137701.51158623767 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-07
noteCalhoun County, AR's covered employment of +10.5% ranks 1st of 75 Arkansas counties, against a median of -0.7%.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- 100 on the 0-to-100 scale across 75 Arkansas counties that published jobs.yoy.emp
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteCalhoun County, AR's momentum index of 0.88 ranks 1st of 75 Arkansas counties, against a median of 0.18.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- 100 on the 0-to-100 scale across 75 Arkansas counties that published momentum
- momentum = Σ wᵢ · clip(changeᵢ / scaleᵢ, −1, 1) / Σ wᵢ over the terms present; weights and scales: home value 1-yr change 0.3 (±10%), rent 1-yr change 0.15 (±10%), jobs over-the-year change 0.3 (±3%), avg weekly wage over-the-year change 0.25 (±6%)
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
Read all 12 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.