77th pct · 677th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
Home value, one year
+5.8%
as of August 2026
78th pct · 673rd of 3,063 US counties · median +2.9%
Typical rent
$2,272
as of August 2026
91st pct · 123rd of 1,399 US counties · median $1,496
Jobs
2,569,918
as of 2026 Q1-01
99th pct · 2nd of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
Average weekly wage
$2,015
as of 2026 Q1-01
98th pct · 47th of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
Years of wages per home
3.3
26th pct · 2,252nd of 3,063 US 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.
Typical home $341,570 (Aug 2026), +5.8% over one year, +22.3% over five
77th pct · 677th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
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.
Item
Value
Distance
Cook County
$341,570 · +5.8% 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.
Principal and interest of $1,870 a month on $341,570 at 7.28%, against an average weekly wage worth $8,732 a month: 21.4% of one job’s pay.
payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $341,570 × 80% = $273,256, r = 7.28%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-01), n = 360 → $1,870/mo principal and interest
wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $2,015 × 52 / 12 = $8,732) = 21% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
years of wages = $341,570 / ($2,015 × 52) = 3.3
price-to-rent = $341,570 / ($2,272 × 12) = 12.5
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.
2.57 m jobs at 139,775 employers (2026 Q1); +0.3% jobs and +4.3% average weekly wage over the year
99th pct · 2nd of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
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.
Item
Value
Distance
Cook County
2.57 m jobs · $2,015/wk · +0.3% YoY
BLS QCEW, all ownerships, third month of the quarter. A location quotient of 1.00 means this county has the national share of its jobs in that sector; 2.00 means twice it. A withheld row is a BLS disclosure code N: the cell is absent, not zero.
NAICS sector
Jobs
Avg weekly wage
Location quotient
Jobs over the year
Health care and social assistance
402,415
$1,260
1.04
+2.4%
Professional and technical services
233,387
$3,042
1.32
-0.6%
Accommodation and food services
227,858
$717
0.99
+0.2%
Retail trade
207,606
$847
0.83
-1.6%
Administrative and waste services
178,352
$1,381
1.22
+0.2%
Manufacturing
177,334
$1,825
0.86
-2.2%
Finance and insurance
162,455
$6,646
1.55
+1.6%
Transportation and warehousing
143,414
$1,698
1.32
+1.3%
Wholesale trade
93,568
$2,634
0.95
-3.5%
Other services
91,882
$1,332
1.20
-3.1%
Educational services
89,537
$1,547
1.62
-0.5%
Construction
71,753
$2,046
0.53
+0.9%
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.
$466.1 bn in deposits at 1,120 offices of 90 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 1,134, moderately concentrated. $36.3 bn federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $28.7 bn, contracts $4.2 bn), $14,115 per covered job
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.
Item
Value
Distance
JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association
$96.9 bn · 20.8% share · 156 offices
BMO Bank National Association
$94.2 bn · 20.2% share · 84 offices
CIBC Bank USA
$49.0 bn · 10.5% share · 5 offices
Cook, IL
$36.3 bn FY2026 · $14,115/job
MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS
$26.4 bn · top recipient FY2026
FDIC Summary of Deposits, June 2026. These are institution offices, not people: the row is a bank's presence in the county.
Institution
Deposits
Share
Offices
JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association
$96,857,119,000
20.8%
156
BMO Bank National Association
$94,213,992,000
20.2%
84
CIBC Bank USA
$49,021,538,000
10.5%
5
The Northern Trust Company
$39,050,296,000
8.4%
2
Bank of America, National Association
$35,739,027,000
7.7%
81
Fifth Third Bank, National Association
$18,166,586,000
3.9%
100
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association
$12,023,993,000
2.6%
16
U.S. Bank National Association
$11,969,270,000
2.6%
73
Citibank, National Association
$10,584,000,000
2.3%
43
PNC Bank, National Association
$10,412,661,000
2.2%
70
Deposit concentration is 1,134 across 87 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls moderately concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 87 banks with deposits in the county = 20.8² + 20.2² + 10.5² + … (84 more) = 1,134
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.
USAspending place-of-performance obligations for FY2026, by awarding agency.
USAspending, FY2026, place of performance in this county.
Awarding agency
Obligations
Social Security Administration
$19,493,029,432
Department of Health and Human Services
$7,358,329,627
Department of Veterans Affairs
$2,761,961,440
Department of Housing and Urban Development
$2,647,091,569
Department of Defense
$1,844,845,014
Department of Education
$576,339,890
Department of Transportation
$486,600,795
Railroad Retirement Board
$236,683,095
Department of Agriculture
$142,417,401
National Science Foundation
$137,151,560
General Services Administration
$135,023,891
Department of Homeland Security
$106,787,788
That is $14,115 per covered job, against 2,569,918 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $36.3 bn / 2.57 m covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $14,115
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.
These are United States, single-gauge, single-state and port series. None of them is keyed to this county.
The national indicator set, unfiltered by place.
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
16.50
2026-09-30
-11.7%
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 · %
67.28
2026-10-01
not published
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 · %
4.10
2026-08-01
+0.0%
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.
noteFIPS 17031, IL's average weekly wage was 4.3% higher than the same quarter a year earlier in 2026 Q1, on BLS QCEW's published over-the-year change.
Period 2026 Q1.
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+4.3 % = 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
noteFIPS 17031, IL's typical home value rose 0.7% from $339,163 in July 2026 to $341,570 in August 2026, on Zillow ZHVI.