Jeff Davis County, GA
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 31.81, -82.64.
Assembled 2026-10-06. Read the brief.
- 16th pct · 2,558th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 17th pct · 131st of 159 Georgia counties · median $219,820
- 87th pct · 375th of 3,063 US counties · median +2.9%
- 83rd pct · 27th of 159 Georgia counties · median +2.6%
- US counties: not published this period
- Georgia counties: not published this period
- 33rd pct · 2,133rd of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 36th pct · 102nd of 159 Georgia counties · median 7,095
- 21st pct · 2,531st of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 31st pct · 108th of 159 Georgia counties · median $964
- 24th pct · 2,300th of 3,063 US counties · median 4.3
- 22nd pct · 123rd of 159 Georgia 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.
Home values #
Typical home $151,912 (Aug 2026), +7.3% over one year, +28.3% over five
- 16th pct · 2,558th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 17th pct · 131st of 159 Georgia counties · median $219,820
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Jeff Davis County, GA | $151,912 · +7.3% 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
- Georgia 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 $832 a month on $151,912 at 7.28%, against an average weekly wage worth $3,948 a month: 21.1% of one job’s pay.
- payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $151,912 × 80% = $121,530, r = 7.28%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-01), n = 360 → $832/mo principal and interest
- wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $911 × 52 / 12 = $3,948) = 21% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
- years of wages = $151,912 / ($911 × 52) = 3.2
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.
Jobs & wages #
4,397 jobs at 292 employers (2026 Q1); +4.2% jobs and -2.1% average weekly wage over the year
- 33rd pct · 2,133rd of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 36th pct · 102nd of 159 Georgia counties · median 7,095
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Jeff Davis County, GA | 4,397 jobs · $911/wk · +4.2% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manufacturing | 1,047 | $1,111 | 2.96 | -6.2% |
| Retail trade | 581 | $577 | 1.36 | +0.3% |
| Wholesale trade | 177 | $1,426 | 1.05 | -0.6% |
| Health care and social assistance | 147 | $909 | 0.22 | +0.0% |
| Administrative and waste services | 99 | $597 | 0.40 | -12.4% |
| Finance and insurance | 73 | $1,124 | 0.41 | -6.4% |
| Other services | 72 | $745 | 0.55 | +28.6% |
| Transportation and warehousing | 55 | $1,139 | 0.30 | -8.3% |
| Utilities | 42 | $1,311 | 2.42 | +121.1% |
| Real estate and rental | 8 | $1,222 | 0.12 | +0.0% |
| Agriculture, forestry, fishing | withheld | |||
| Construction | 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 #
D0 abnormally dry
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 #
low (0.00)
Σ wᵢ·termᵢ / Σ wᵢ = 0.35×0.00 / 0.35
Banks & federal dollars #
$283.1 m in deposits at 4 offices of 3 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 3,493, highly concentrated. $77.9 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $74.5 m, loans $2.0 m), $17,719 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Bank of Hazlehurst | $117.9 m · 41.6% share · 2 offices | |
| Renasant Bank | $97.6 m · 34.5% share · 1 office | |
| Altamaha Bank & Trust Company | $67.6 m · 23.9% share · 1 office | |
| Jeff Davis, GA | $77.9 m FY2026 · $17,719/job | |
| MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS | $72.8 m · top recipient FY2026 |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bank of Hazlehurst | $117,876,000 | 41.6% | 2 |
| Renasant Bank | $97,599,000 | 34.5% | 1 |
| Altamaha Bank & Trust Company | $67,618,000 | 23.9% | 1 |
Deposit concentration is 3,493 across 3 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls highly concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 3 banks with deposits in the county = 41.6² + 34.5² + 23.9² = 3,493
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 | $64,347,572 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $8,122,976 |
| Department of Agriculture | $5,427,725 |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | $1,329,129 |
| Railroad Retirement Board | $353,101 |
| Department of Transportation | $67,350 |
| Small Business Administration | $15,000 |
| Department of Homeland Security | $5,400 |
| Federal Communications Commission | $1,420 |
| Department of the Interior | $0 |
| Department of the Treasury | -$33,987 |
| Environmental Protection Agency | -$1,725,000 |
That is $17,719 per covered job, against 4,397 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $77.9 m / 4,397 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $17,719
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 #
Jeff Davis County, GA: 5 findings, 1 at a watch level and 4 noted
watchJeff Davis County, GA's average weekly wage is -2.1% against a year earlier, a watch level here: average weekly wage below the same quarter a year earlier, before inflation (BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published, nominal dollars; 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.avgWeeklyWage = -2.1 < 0
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published, nominal dollars; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level
noteJeff Davis County, GA's covered employment was 4.2% 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
- +4.2 % = 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
noteJeff Davis County, GA's average weekly wage was 2.1% 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
- -2.1 % = 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
noteJeff Davis County, GA's covered employment of +4.2% ranks 263rd of 3,221 US counties, against a median of -0.2%.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- 92 on the 0-to-100 scale across 3221 US counties that published jobs.yoy.emp
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteThe next Zillow ZHVI typical home value (monthly) covering Jeff Davis County, GA 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
Every finding is produced by a fixed rule table and a fixed sentence for each rule. Nothing here is generated prose.