Jackson County, CO
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 40.66, -106.33.
Assembled 2026-10-06. Read the brief.
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- 2nd pct · 3,151st of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 6th pct · 60th of 64 Colorado counties · median 4,853
- 35th pct · 2,067th of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 26th pct · 47th of 64 Colorado counties · median $1,075
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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 #
No Zillow home value index for this area
- US counties: not published this period
- Colorado counties: not published this period
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 #
No rent index for this area
- US counties: not published this period
- Colorado 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 #
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 #
504 jobs at 91 employers (2026 Q1); -7.4% jobs and +8.2% average weekly wage over the year
- 2nd pct · 3,151st of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 6th pct · 60th of 64 Colorado counties · median 4,853
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Jackson County, CO | 504 jobs · $975/wk · -7.4% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retail trade | 84 | $634 | 1.71 | -9.7% |
| Professional and technical services | 29 | $1,487 | 0.83 | -27.5% |
| Agriculture, forestry, fishing | withheld | |||
| Mining, oil and gas | withheld | |||
| Utilities | withheld | |||
| Construction | withheld | |||
| Manufacturing | withheld | |||
| Transportation and warehousing | withheld | |||
| Finance and insurance | withheld | |||
| Real estate and rental | 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 #
1 USGS reservoir gauges, no capacity figures to weight
Sites found: 1, 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.
| Site | Reading | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| WOLFORD MTN RESERVOIR NR KREMMLING, CO | 19,400 Acre-ft (USGS, no capacity on file) | 62 km |
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 #
60 gauges · 0 flooding · 12 with quality panels averaging 100 % · 28 stale
Sites found: 60, 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.
| Site | Reading | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| ILLINOIS RIVER BLW POTTER CREEK NR WALDEN, CO | flow 3.40 ft³/s · STALE | 6 km |
| Michigan River (CO) at Walden | no flooding | 9 km |
| ILLINOIS RIVER BLW ISH BALDWIN DITCH NR WALDEN, CO | flow 4.00 ft³/s · STALE | 12 km |
| Illinois River (CO) near Rand | no flooding | 26 km |
| NORTH PLATTE RIVER NEAR NORTHGATE, CO | flow 39.2 ft³/s · no flooding | 30 km |
| MIDDLE FORK FISH CREEK NEAR BUFFALO PASS, CO | flow 1.30 ft³/s · STALE | 36 km |
| GRANITE C NR BUFFALO PASS, CO. | flow 0.68 ft³/s · STALE | 36 km |
| MID FK FISH CR TRIBUTARY BLW FISH CR RESERVOIR, CO | flow 0.00 ft³/s · STALE | 36 km |
| LONG LAKE INLET NEAR BUFFALO PASS, CO. | flow 0.49 ft³/s · STALE | 36 km |
| FISH C TRIB BL LONG LK, NR BUFFLAO PASS, CO. | flow 0.02 ft³/s · STALE | 37 km |
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 #
3 wells in 0 named aquifers:
Sites found: 3, 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.
| Site | Reading | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| USGS-411234106424601 | depth 10.3 ft · 2012-07-09 | 69 km |
| USGS-411448106401701 | depth 73.3 ft · 1981-09-28 | 71 km |
| USGS-411353106425701 | depth 6.46 ft · 1982-08-23 | 71 km |
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 (0.32)
Σ wᵢ·termᵢ / Σ wᵢ = 0.35×0.50 + 0.2×0.00 / 0.55
Banks & federal dollars #
$75.3 m in deposits at 1 offices of 1 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 10,000, highly concentrated. $8.2 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $8.1 m, contracts $52,818), $16,301 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Mountain Valley Bank | $75.3 m · 100.0% share · 1 office | |
| Jackson, CO | $8.2 m FY2026 · $16,301/job | |
| MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS | $7.5 m · top recipient FY2026 |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain Valley Bank | $75,285,000 | 100.0% | 1 |
Deposit concentration is 10,000 across 1 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls highly concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 1 banks with deposits in the county = 100.0² = 10,000
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 | $6,810,222 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $728,374 |
| Department of Agriculture | $648,738 |
| Federal Communications Commission | $29,739 |
| Department of Transportation | $29,658 |
| Department of Education | $14,519 |
| Railroad Retirement Board | $1,907 |
| Small Business Administration | $0 |
| Department of the Interior | -$47,543 |
That is $16,301 per covered job, against 504 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $8.2 m / 504 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $16,301
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 | -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.
What changed #
Jackson County, CO: 7 findings, 1 at an alert level, 1 at a watch level and 5 noted
alertJackson County, CO's covered employment is -7.4% 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 = -7.4 <= -3
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level
watchJackson County, CO's covered employment is -7.4% 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 = -7.4 < 0
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level
noteJackson County, CO's average weekly wage was 8.2% 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
- +8.2 % = 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
noteJackson County, CO's covered employment was 7.4% 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
- -7.4 % = 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
noteJackson County, CO's covered employment of 504 ranks 3,151st of 3,221 US counties, against a median of 8,232.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- 2 on the 0-to-100 scale across 3221 US counties that published jobs.emp
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
Read all 7 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.