Wilkes County, GA: 15 findings, 1 at an alert level, 3 at a watch level and 11 noted
15 findings fired for Wilkes County, GA this run, against a typical home value of $171,297 in August 2026 and covered employment of 2,491 in 2026 Q1. 3 further findings are not listed here.
This is the real estate lens: Agents, investors, appraisers, relocation It keeps the findings whose subject matches that interest and drops the rest, so it is a subset of the full brief and never a different set of numbers. The full brief is the canonical version of this page.
12 findings #
alertWilkes County, GA's covered employment is -7.8% 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 = -7.8 <= -3
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level
watchWilkes County, GA's covered employment is -7.8% 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 = -7.8 < 0
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level
watchWilkes County, GA's average weekly wage is -4.6% 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 = -4.6 < 0
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published, nominal dollars; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level
watchWilkes County, GA's momentum index is -0.27, a watch level here: momentum index in the cooling band (the cooling band of the momentum index computed here, score at or below -0.25; 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 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- test: momentum = -0.27478553299837316 <= -0.25
- 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%)
the cooling band of the momentum index computed here, score at or below -0.25; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level
noteWilkes County, GA's covered employment was 7.8% 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
- -7.8 % = 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
noteWilkes County, GA's average weekly wage was 4.6% 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
- -4.6 % = 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
noteWilkes County, GA's typical home value rose 0.6% from $170,263 in July 2026 to $171,297 in August 2026, on Zillow ZHVI.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- +0.6% = (171297.23975566935 - 170262.89878945702) / 170262.89878945702 × 100
- 171297.23975566935 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-08
- 170262.89878945702 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-07
noteWilkes County, GA's covered employment of -7.8% ranks 3,150th of 3,221 US counties, against a median of -0.2%.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- 2 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
noteWilkes County, GA's momentum index of -0.27 ranks 154th of 159 Georgia counties, against a median of 0.31.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- 3 on the 0-to-100 scale across 159 Georgia 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
noteWilkes County, GA's covered employment of -7.8% ranks 151st of 159 Georgia counties, against a median of +0.3%.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- 5 on the 0-to-100 scale across 159 Georgia counties that published jobs.yoy.emp
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteWilkes County, GA's momentum index of -0.27 ranks 3,040th of 3,221 US counties, against a median of 0.23.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- 6 on the 0-to-100 scale across 3221 US 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
noteWilkes County, GA's typical home value of +8.6% ranks 227th of 3,063 US counties, against a median of +2.9%.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- 93 on the 0-to-100 scale across 3063 US counties that published home.yoyPct
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
A lens narrows which numbers are shown, not which holes are admitted to: a withheld figure or a pending release survives every lens, because a gap is a fact about the place rather than about one reader's subject.
Subscribe to this lens #
The same narrowed findings as a feed.