Drew County, AR

Home values #

Typical home $161,147 (Aug 2026), -0.2% over one year, +5.3% over five

• 19th pct · 2,454th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
• 39th pct · 45th of 74 Arkansas counties · median $169,663

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 $882 a month on $161,147 at 7.28%, against an average weekly wage worth $3,640 a month: 24.2% of one job’s pay.

• payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $161,147 × 80% = $128,917, r = 7.28%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-01), n = 360 → $882/mo principal and interest
• wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $840 × 52 / 12 = $3,640) = 24% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
• years of wages = $161,147 / ($840 × 52) = 3.7

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 #

6,263 jobs at 525 employers (2026 Q1); -0.6% jobs and +0.7% average weekly wage over the year

• 43rd pct · 1,830th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
• 55th pct · 34th of 75 Arkansas counties · median 5,609

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 #

D3 extreme 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 #

No reservoir gauges within 150 km (or the camera is above the gauge altitude)

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 #

38 gauges · 0 flooding · 6 with quality panels averaging 94 % · 13 stale

Sites found: 38, 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 #

8 wells in 0 named aquifers:

Sites found: 8, 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 (0.50)

Σ wᵢ·termᵢ / Σ wᵢ = 0.35×0.75 + 0.2×0.06 / 0.55

Banks & federal dollars #

$624.4 m in deposits at 9 offices of 4 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 3,500, highly concentrated. $127.6 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $115.8 m, grants $11.8 m), $20,373 per covered job

Deposit concentration is 3,500 across 4 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls highly concentrated.

HHI = Σ (share %)² over 4 banks with deposits in the county = 43.8² + 37.5² + 10.2² + … (1 more) = 3,500

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.

That is $20,373 per covered job, against 6,263 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.

per job = FY2026 obligations $127.6 m / 6,263 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $20,373

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.

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 #

Drew County, AR: 5 findings, 2 at a watch level and 3 noted

1. watchDrew County, AR's covered employment is -0.6% 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.
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   • test: jobs.yoy.emp = -0.6 < 0

   BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level

2. watchDrew County, AR's typical home value is -0.2% against a year earlier, a watch level here: typical home value below a year ago (arithmetic on Zillow ZHVI, county and metro files; not an official level). The previous published period is not in this table, so this is a standing level rather than a change.

   Period 2026-08.
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   • test: home.yoyPct = -0.21301327462094766 < 0

   arithmetic on Zillow ZHVI, county and metro files; not an official level

3. noteDrew County, AR's average weekly wage was 0.7% higher than the same quarter a year earlier in 2026 Q1, on BLS QCEW's published over-the-year change.

   Period 2026 Q1.
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   • +0.7 % = 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

4. noteDrew County, AR's covered employment was 0.6% 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

   • -0.6 % = 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

5. noteThe next Zillow ZHVI typical home value (monthly) covering Drew County, AR is due between 2026-10-14 and 2026-10-21, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern.

   Show the arithmetic

   • 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

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