Lewis County, KY
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 38.53, -83.37.
Assembled 2026-10-06. Read the brief.
- 5th pct · 2,898th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 12th pct · 105th of 120 Kentucky counties · median $181,373
- 3rd pct · 2,948th of 3,063 US counties · median +2.9%
- 34th pct · 79th of 120 Kentucky counties · median -2.1%
- US counties: not published this period
- Kentucky counties: not published this period
- 15th pct · 2,726th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 15th pct · 101st of 120 Kentucky counties · median 5,237
- 8th pct · 2,937th of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 12th pct · 105th of 120 Kentucky counties · median $953
- 13th pct · 2,650th of 3,063 US counties · median 4.3
- 21st pct · 95th of 120 Kentucky counties · median 3.6
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 $114,705 (Aug 2026), -5.6% over one year, +6.9% over five
- 5th pct · 2,898th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 12th pct · 105th of 120 Kentucky counties · median $181,373
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Lewis County, KY | $114,705 · -5.6% 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
- Kentucky 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 $628 a month on $114,705 at 7.28%, against an average weekly wage worth $3,584 a month: 17.5% of one job’s pay.
- payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $114,705 × 80% = $91,764, r = 7.28%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-01), n = 360 → $628/mo principal and interest
- wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $827 × 52 / 12 = $3,584) = 18% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
- years of wages = $114,705 / ($827 × 52) = 2.7
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 #
1,922 jobs at 287 employers (2026 Q1); -0.1% jobs and +3.2% average weekly wage over the year
- 15th pct · 2,726th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 15th pct · 101st of 120 Kentucky counties · median 5,237
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Lewis County, KY | 1,922 jobs · $827/wk · -0.1% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health care and social assistance | 487 | $964 | 1.68 | +10.2% |
| Manufacturing | 247 | $818 | 1.60 | +6.5% |
| Retail trade | 168 | $374 | 0.90 | +2.4% |
| Construction | 137 | $1,392 | 1.36 | -16.0% |
| Accommodation and food services | 82 | $306 | 0.47 | +9.3% |
| Wholesale trade | 71 | $880 | 0.96 | -20.2% |
| Transportation and warehousing | 34 | $788 | 0.42 | -15.0% |
| Administrative and waste services | 34 | $651 | 0.31 | +0.0% |
| Information | withheld | |||
| Finance and insurance | withheld | |||
| Real estate and rental | withheld | |||
| Professional and technical services | 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 #
$214.4 m in deposits at 8 offices of 4 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 3,161, highly concentrated. $77.6 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $73.2 m, grants $4.3 m), $40,353 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Peoples Bank | $93.4 m · 43.6% share · 4 offices | |
| First Guaranty Bank | $65.1 m · 30.4% share · 1 office | |
| Peoples Bank of Kentucky, Inc. | $28.4 m · 13.2% share · 1 office | |
| Lewis, KY | $77.6 m FY2026 · $40,353/job | |
| MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS | $72.0 m · top recipient FY2026 |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peoples Bank | $93,426,000 | 43.6% | 4 |
| First Guaranty Bank | $65,141,000 | 30.4% | 1 |
| Peoples Bank of Kentucky, Inc. | $28,369,000 | 13.2% | 1 |
| Pinnacle Bank, Inc. | $27,476,000 | 12.8% | 2 |
Deposit concentration is 3,161 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 = 43.6² + 30.4² + 13.2² + … (1 more) = 3,161
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 | $62,741,584 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $6,622,926 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | $3,306,030 |
| Railroad Retirement Board | $2,501,399 |
| Department of Agriculture | $986,555 |
| Department of Transportation | $820,643 |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | $578,403 |
That is $40,353 per covered job, against 1,922 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $77.6 m / 1,922 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $40,353
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 #
Lewis County, KY: 11 findings, 1 at an alert level, 3 at a watch level and 7 noted
alertLewis County, KY's typical home value is -5.6% against a year earlier, an alert level here: typical home value at least 5 percent below a year ago (arithmetic on Zillow ZHVI, county and metro files; 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: home.yoyPct = -5.596556163399809 <= -5
arithmetic on Zillow ZHVI, county and metro files; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level
watchLewis County, KY's typical home value is -5.6% against a year earlier, a watch level here: typical home value below a year ago (arithmetic on Zillow ZHVI, county and metro files; 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: home.yoyPct = -5.596556163399809 < 0
arithmetic on Zillow ZHVI, county and metro files; not an official level
watchLewis County, KY's covered employment is -0.1% 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 = -0.1 < 0
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level
watchLewis County, KY's typical home value of -5.6% scores 4 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 34 across Kentucky counties, a gap of 31 points.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- 31 = |4 across US counties - 34 across Kentucky counties|
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteLewis County, KY's average weekly wage was 3.2% 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
- +3.2 % = 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.