Jefferson County, IN
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 38.78, -85.44.
Assembled 2026-10-06. Read the brief.
- 52nd pct · 1,441st of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 57th pct · 40th of 92 Indiana counties · median $234,055
- 74th pct · 790th of 3,063 US counties · median +2.9%
- 63rd pct · 34th of 92 Indiana counties · median +4.2%
- US counties: not published this period
- Indiana counties: not published this period
- 60th pct · 1,268th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 47th pct · 49th of 92 Indiana counties · median 12,958
- 51st pct · 1,566th of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 48th pct · 47th of 92 Indiana counties · median $1,045
- 54th pct · 1,409th of 3,063 US counties · median 4.3
- 61st pct · 36th of 92 Indiana counties · median 4.2
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 $242,975 (Aug 2026), +5.2% over one year, +37.9% over five
- 52nd pct · 1,441st of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 57th pct · 40th of 92 Indiana counties · median $234,055
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Jefferson County, IN | $242,975 · +5.2% 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
- Indiana 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 $1,330 a month on $242,975 at 7.28%, against an average weekly wage worth $4,524 a month: 29.4% of one job’s pay.
- payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $242,975 × 80% = $194,380, r = 7.28%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-01), n = 360 → $1,330/mo principal and interest
- wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $1,044 × 52 / 12 = $4,524) = 29% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
- years of wages = $242,975 / ($1,044 × 52) = 4.5
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.
Jobs & wages #
12,670 jobs at 749 employers (2026 Q1); -3.0% jobs and +1.3% average weekly wage over the year
- 60th pct · 1,268th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 47th pct · 49th of 92 Indiana counties · median 12,958
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Jefferson County, IN | 12,670 jobs · $1,044/wk · -3.0% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manufacturing | 3,053 | $1,348 | 3.00 | +1.1% |
| Health care and social assistance | 1,837 | $1,167 | 0.96 | +2.0% |
| Retail trade | 1,798 | $809 | 1.46 | -4.8% |
| Accommodation and food services | 1,161 | $433 | 1.02 | -12.6% |
| Educational services | 347 | $1,024 | 1.27 | -3.3% |
| Utilities | 282 | $2,529 | 5.64 | +0.0% |
| Transportation and warehousing | 260 | $1,095 | 0.49 | -4.4% |
| Administrative and waste services | 228 | $827 | 0.32 | -8.4% |
| Professional and technical services | 220 | $952 | 0.25 | +0.0% |
| Wholesale trade | 176 | $1,491 | 0.36 | +1.1% |
| Finance and insurance | 170 | $1,585 | 0.33 | +0.0% |
| Real estate and rental | 98 | $818 | 0.50 | -4.9% |
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.
Drought #
No drought class at this point (USDM covers the United States only)
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 #
$620.2 m in deposits at 9 offices of 4 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 3,989, highly concentrated. $224.6 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $211.1 m, grants $10.7 m), $17,728 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| German American Bank | $311.9 m · 50.3% share · 4 offices | |
| First Financial Bank | $230.4 m · 37.2% share · 3 offices | |
| The Farmers Bank of Milton | $42.7 m · 6.9% share · 1 office | |
| Jefferson, IN | $224.6 m FY2026 · $17,728/job |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| German American Bank | $311,868,000 | 50.3% | 4 |
| First Financial Bank | $230,407,000 | 37.2% | 3 |
| The Farmers Bank of Milton | $42,661,000 | 6.9% | 1 |
| The Friendship State Bank | $35,221,000 | 5.7% | 1 |
Deposit concentration is 3,989 across 4 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls highly concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 4 banks with deposits in the county = 50.3² + 37.2² + 6.9² + … (1 more) = 3,989
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.
That is $17,728 per covered job, against 12,670 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $224.6 m / 12,670 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $17,728
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 | 12.28 | 2026-10-04 | -0.1% |
| 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 | 2026-10-05 | +0.1% |
| 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 | -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.
What changed #
Jefferson County, IN: 6 findings, 1 at an alert level, 1 at a watch level and 4 noted
alertJefferson County, IN's covered employment is -3.0% 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 = -3 <= -3
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level
watchJefferson County, IN's covered employment is -3.0% 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 = -3 < 0
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level
noteJefferson County, IN's covered employment was 3.0% 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
- -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
noteJefferson County, IN's average weekly wage was 1.3% 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
- +1.3 % = 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
noteJefferson County, IN's typical home value rose 0.3% from $242,184 in July 2026 to $242,975 in August 2026, on Zillow ZHVI.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- +0.3% = (242974.8006445286 - 242184.1400171423) / 242184.1400171423 × 100
- 242974.8006445286 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-08
- 242184.1400171423 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-07
Read all 6 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.