Doniphan County, KS
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 39.79, -95.15.
Assembled 2026-10-06. Read the brief.
- 28th pct · 2,203rd of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 66th pct · 36th of 105 Kansas counties · median $153,214
- counties in the St. Joseph metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 4 counties in the St. Joseph metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 97th pct · 69th of 3,063 US counties · median +2.9%
- 98th pct · 3rd of 105 Kansas counties · median +4.4%
- counties in the St. Joseph metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 4 counties in the St. Joseph metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- US counties: not published this period
- Kansas counties: not published this period
- counties in the St. Joseph metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 4 counties in the St. Joseph metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 25th pct · 2,397th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 57th pct · 45th of 105 Kansas counties · median 2,554
- counties in the St. Joseph metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 4 counties in the St. Joseph metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 63rd pct · 1,170th of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 90th pct · 11th of 105 Kansas counties · median $943
- counties in the St. Joseph metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 4 counties in the St. Joseph metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 22nd pct · 2,366th of 3,063 US counties · median 4.3
- 47th pct · 56th of 105 Kansas counties · median 3.2
- counties in the St. Joseph metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 4 counties in the St. Joseph metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
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 $179,632 (Aug 2026), +11.6% over one year, +42.5% over five
- 28th pct · 2,203rd of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 66th pct · 36th of 105 Kansas counties · median $153,214
- counties in the St. Joseph metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 4 counties in the St. Joseph metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Doniphan County, KS | $179,632 · +11.6% 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
- Kansas counties: not published this period
- counties in the St. Joseph metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 4 counties in the St. Joseph metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
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 $983 a month on $179,632 at 7.28%, against an average weekly wage worth $4,797 a month: 20.5% of one job’s pay.
- payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $179,632 × 80% = $143,705, r = 7.28%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-01), n = 360 → $983/mo principal and interest
- wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $1,107 × 52 / 12 = $4,797) = 20% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
- years of wages = $179,632 / ($1,107 × 52) = 3.1
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 #
3,131 jobs at 238 employers (2026 Q1); +9.8% jobs and +12.0% average weekly wage over the year
- 25th pct · 2,397th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 57th pct · 45th of 105 Kansas counties · median 2,554
- counties in the St. Joseph metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 4 counties in the St. Joseph metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Doniphan County, KS | 3,131 jobs · $1,107/wk · +9.8% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manufacturing | 600 | $1,556 | 2.38 | +10.1% |
| Health care and social assistance | 304 | $1,044 | 0.65 | +12.6% |
| Wholesale trade | 299 | $1,609 | 2.49 | +0.0% |
| Construction | 173 | $1,343 | 1.05 | -8.9% |
| Transportation and warehousing | 147 | $1,253 | 1.11 | -3.3% |
| Accommodation and food services | 95 | $347 | 0.34 | +0.0% |
| Administrative and waste services | 84 | $825 | 0.47 | +20.0% |
| Finance and insurance | 53 | $989 | 0.42 | +0.0% |
| Professional and technical services | 30 | $1,587 | 0.14 | -14.3% |
| Agriculture, forestry, fishing | withheld | |||
| Mining, oil and gas | withheld | |||
| Utilities | 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 #
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 #
$271.6 m in deposits at 7 offices of 4 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 3,070, highly concentrated. $59.0 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $49.6 m, grants $8.4 m), $18,852 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| The Bendena State Bank | $114.7 m · 42.2% share · 3 offices | |
| The Farmers State Bank | $77.0 m · 28.3% share · 1 office | |
| First Option Bank | $53.4 m · 19.7% share · 2 offices | |
| Doniphan, KS | $59.0 m FY2026 · $18,852/job | |
| MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS | $43.1 m · top recipient FY2026 |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Bendena State Bank | $114,741,000 | 42.2% | 3 |
| The Farmers State Bank | $76,993,000 | 28.3% | 1 |
| First Option Bank | $53,434,000 | 19.7% | 2 |
| Exchange Bank & Trust | $26,457,000 | 9.7% | 1 |
Deposit concentration is 3,070 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 = 42.2² + 28.3² + 19.7² + … (1 more) = 3,070
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 | $38,651,482 |
| Department of Transportation | $6,519,529 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $4,083,823 |
| Department of Agriculture | $3,420,864 |
| Department of the Interior | $1,850,092 |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | $1,669,321 |
| Department of Education | $1,600,951 |
| Railroad Retirement Board | $465,600 |
| Department of Justice | $460,880 |
| Federal Communications Commission | $133,777 |
| Department of Defense | $116,105 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | $32,002 |
That is $18,852 per covered job, against 3,131 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $59.0 m / 3,131 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $18,852
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 #
Doniphan County, KS: 13 findings, 2 at a watch level and 11 noted
watchDoniphan County, KS' typical home value of $179,632 scores 28 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 66 across Kansas counties, a gap of 38 points.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- 38 = |28 across US counties - 66 across Kansas counties|
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
watchDoniphan County, KS' covered employment of 3,131 scores 26 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 58 across Kansas counties, a gap of 32 points.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- 32 = |26 across US counties - 58 across Kansas counties|
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteDoniphan County, KS' average weekly wage was 12.0% 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
- +12 % = 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
noteDoniphan County, KS' covered employment was 9.8% 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
- +9.8 % = 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
noteDoniphan County, KS' typical home value rose 0.6% from $178,527 in July 2026 to $179,632 in August 2026, on Zillow ZHVI.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- +0.6% = (179631.50066716087 - 178526.63715585644) / 178526.63715585644 × 100
- 179631.50066716087 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-08
- 178526.63715585644 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-07
Read all 12 findings in the full brief
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