Fremont County, ID
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 44.22, -111.48.
Assembled 2026-10-07. Read the brief.
- 92nd pct · 240th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 76th pct · 11th of 43 Idaho counties · median $396,924
- 87th pct · 386th of 3,063 US counties · median +2.9%
- 90th pct · 5th of 43 Idaho counties · median +2.9%
- US counties: not published this period
- Idaho counties: not published this period
- 28th pct · 2,312th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 34th pct · 29th of 44 Idaho counties · median 4,800
- 16th pct · 2,703rd of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 16th pct · 37th of 44 Idaho counties · median $1,026
- 97th pct · 72nd of 3,063 US counties · median 4.3
- 83rd pct · 8th of 43 Idaho counties · median 7.6
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 $475,848 (Aug 2026), +7.3% over one year, +16.5% over five
- 92nd pct · 240th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 76th pct · 11th of 43 Idaho counties · median $396,924
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Fremont County, ID | $475,848 · +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
- Idaho 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 $2,605 a month on $475,848 at 7.28%, against an average weekly wage worth $3,822 a month: 68.1% of one job’s pay.
- payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $475,848 × 80% = $380,678, r = 7.28%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-01), n = 360 → $2,605/mo principal and interest
- wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $882 × 52 / 12 = $3,822) = 68% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
- years of wages = $475,848 / ($882 × 52) = 10.4
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 #
3,496 jobs at 586 employers (2026 Q1); +2.9% jobs and +2.6% average weekly wage over the year
- 28th pct · 2,312th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 34th pct · 29th of 44 Idaho counties · median 4,800
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Fremont County, ID | 3,496 jobs · $882/wk · +2.9% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retail trade | 443 | $620 | 1.30 | +4.7% |
| Construction | 357 | $942 | 1.95 | +4.1% |
| Accommodation and food services | 333 | $393 | 1.06 | +5.0% |
| Manufacturing | 246 | $663 | 0.87 | +25.5% |
| Health care and social assistance | 245 | $798 | 0.47 | -3.9% |
| Administrative and waste services | 148 | $1,057 | 0.74 | -6.9% |
| Transportation and warehousing | 127 | $1,125 | 0.86 | +44.3% |
| Real estate and rental | 55 | $630 | 1.03 | +25.0% |
| Finance and insurance | 28 | $1,094 | 0.20 | -6.7% |
| Educational services | 14 | $650 | 0.19 | -6.7% |
| Arts, entertainment and recreation | 5 | $1,863 | 0.09 | -58.3% |
| Agriculture, forestry, fishing | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jackson Lake near Moran, WY | 6,734 ft (USGS, no capacity on file) | 82 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 #
55 gauges · 0 flooding · 17 with quality panels averaging 100 % · 23 stale
Sites found: 55, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| HENRYS FORK NR ASHTON ID | flow 756.0 ft³/s | 17 km |
| FALL RIVER NR ASHTON ID | flow 426.0 ft³/s | 21 km |
| FALL RIVER NR CHESTER ID | flow 365.0 ft³/s · no flooding | 23 km |
| HENRYS FORK NR ISLAND PARK ID | flow 70.0 ft³/s | 23 km |
| Eastern Idaho Reservoirs at Island Park | no flooding | 23 km |
| FALL RIVER NR SQUIRREL ID | flow 212.0 ft³/s | 26 km |
| HENRYS FORK BLW COFFEE POT RAPIDS NR MACKS INN ID | flow 396.0 ft³/s · STALE | 30 km |
| FALL RIVER AB YELLOWSTONE CANAL NR SQUIRREL ID | flow 427.0 ft³/s | 32 km |
| HENRYS FORK AT ST ANTHONY ID | flow 825.0 ft³/s · no flooding | 32 km |
| CAMAS CREEK AT RED ROAD NR KILGORE ID | flow 45.0 ft³/s · STALE | 34 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 #
1 wells in 0 named aquifers:
Sites found: 1, 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-435506111563102 | depth 42.9 ft · 1996-10-10 | 50 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 #
$167.5 m in deposits at 3 offices of 1 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 10,000, highly concentrated. $107.9 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $85.7 m, grants $19.3 m), $30,874 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Glacier Bank | $167.5 m · 100.0% share · 3 offices | |
| Fremont, ID | $107.9 m FY2026 · $30,874/job | |
| MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS | $71.9 m · top recipient FY2026 |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glacier Bank | $167,502,000 | 100.0% | 3 |
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 | $63,697,787 |
| Department of Transportation | $15,685,624 |
| Department of Agriculture | $14,555,835 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $7,197,977 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | $3,182,591 |
| Environmental Protection Agency | $1,750,000 |
| Railroad Retirement Board | $867,490 |
| Federal Communications Commission | $605,338 |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | $330,142 |
| Department of the Interior | $34,165 |
| Department of Education | $27,881 |
| Small Business Administration | $0 |
That is $30,874 per covered job, against 3,496 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $107.9 m / 3,496 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $30,874
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 | 3.00 | 2026-10-06 | -50.0% |
| Shanghai to Los Angeles container rate · $ per 40 ft box | 7,848.00 | 2026-09-01 | +14.9% |
| 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 #
Fremont County, ID: 10 findings, 2 at a watch level and 8 noted
watchFremont County, ID's years of wages of 10.4 ranks 72nd of 3,063 US counties, a watch level here: years of wages in the top tenth of US counties (position among the counties that published both a ZHVI value and a QCEW average weekly wage; 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: yearsOfWages percentile = 97.68125408229915 >= 90
- typical home value / (average weekly wage × 52); one average covered job, not a household
position among the counties that published both a ZHVI value and a QCEW average weekly wage; not an official level
watchFremont County, ID's years of wages is 10.4, a watch level here: typical home value worth 10 or more years of one average covered wage (typical home value / (average weekly wage × 52), one average covered job rather than a household; 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: yearsOfWages = 10.375192667506123 >= 10
- typical home value / (average weekly wage × 52); one average covered job, not a household
typical home value / (average weekly wage × 52), one average covered job rather than a household; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level
noteFremont County, ID's covered employment was 2.9% 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
- +2.9 % = 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
noteFremont County, ID's average weekly wage was 2.6% 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
- +2.6 % = 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
noteFremont County, ID's momentum index of 0.73 ranks 2nd of 44 Idaho counties, against a median of 0.34.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- 98 on the 0-to-100 scale across 44 Idaho 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 10 findings in the full brief
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