Lincoln County, ID
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 42.99, -114.15.
Assembled 2026-10-06. Read the brief.
- 73rd pct · 801st of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 11th pct · 38th of 43 Idaho counties · median $396,924
- 46th pct · 1,642nd of 3,063 US counties · median +2.9%
- 38th pct · 27th of 43 Idaho counties · median +2.9%
- US counties: not published this period
- Idaho counties: not published this period
- 12th pct · 2,815th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 13th pct · 38th of 44 Idaho counties · median 4,800
- 46th pct · 1,707th of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 48th pct · 23rd of 44 Idaho counties · median $1,026
- 78th pct · 648th of 3,063 US counties · median 4.3
- 14th pct · 37th 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 $320,246 (Aug 2026), +2.6% over one year, +21.3% over five
- 73rd pct · 801st of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 11th pct · 38th of 43 Idaho counties · median $396,924
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Lincoln County, ID | $320,246 · +2.6% 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 $1,753 a month on $320,246 at 7.28%, against an average weekly wage worth $4,442 a month: 39.5% of one job’s pay.
- payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $320,246 × 80% = $256,197, r = 7.28%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-01), n = 360 → $1,753/mo principal and interest
- wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $1,025 × 52 / 12 = $4,442) = 39% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
- years of wages = $320,246 / ($1,025 × 52) = 6.0
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 #
1,619 jobs at 199 employers (2026 Q1); -4.4% jobs and +7.2% average weekly wage over the year
- 12th pct · 2,815th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 13th pct · 38th of 44 Idaho counties · median 4,800
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Lincoln County, ID | 1,619 jobs · $1,025/wk · -4.4% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agriculture, forestry, fishing | 386 | $885 | 33.01 | -5.9% |
| Construction | 207 | $1,711 | 2.44 | +2.5% |
| Manufacturing | 145 | $1,549 | 1.11 | +2.1% |
| Transportation and warehousing | 51 | $836 | 0.75 | -10.5% |
| Administrative and waste services | 35 | $797 | 0.38 | -47.0% |
| Professional and technical services | 24 | $743 | 0.21 | -11.1% |
| Other services | 17 | $507 | 0.35 | +0.0% |
| Information | 7 | $1,524 | 0.23 | +0.0% |
| Utilities | withheld | |||
| Wholesale trade | withheld | |||
| Retail trade | withheld | |||
| Finance and insurance | 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 #
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 #
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 #
high (0.75)
Σ wᵢ·termᵢ / Σ wᵢ = 0.35×0.75 / 0.35
Banks & federal dollars #
FDIC publishes no Summary of Deposits rows for this county. $24.7 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $23.0 m, contracts $1.7 m), $15,249 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| county 16063, ID | $24.7 m FY2026 · $15,249/job | |
| MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS | $21.7 m · top recipient FY2026 |
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 | $19,585,160 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $1,709,212 |
| Department of Agriculture | $1,306,376 |
| Department of the Interior | $1,182,468 |
| Railroad Retirement Board | $389,880 |
| Federal Communications Commission | $324,508 |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | $120,048 |
| Department of Education | $92,100 |
| Department of Transportation | -$22,075 |
That is $15,249 per covered job, against 1,619 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $24.7 m / 1,619 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $15,249
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 #
Lincoln County, ID: 11 findings, 1 at an alert level, 3 at a watch level and 7 noted
alertLincoln County, ID's covered employment is -4.4% 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 = -4.4 <= -3
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level
watchLincoln County, ID's covered employment is -4.4% 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 = -4.4 < 0
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level
watchLincoln County, ID's years of wages of 6.0 scores 79 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 14 across Idaho counties, a gap of 65 points.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- 65 = |79 across US counties - 14 across Idaho counties|
- typical home value / (average weekly wage × 52); one average covered job, not a household
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
watchLincoln County, ID's typical home value of $320,246 scores 74 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 12 across Idaho counties, a gap of 62 points.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- 62 = |74 across US counties - 12 across Idaho counties|
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteLincoln County, ID's average weekly wage was 7.2% 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
- +7.2 % = 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
Read all 11 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.