Charles County, MD: 17 findings, 3 at a watch level and 14 noted
17 findings fired for Charles County, MD this run, against a typical home value of $446,976 in August 2026 and covered employment of 42,569 in 2026 Q1. 5 further findings are not listed here.
Rules version 1. Assembled 2026-10-06. Back to Charles County, MD.
12 findings #
watchCharles County, MD's covered employment is -2.5% 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 = -2.5 < 0
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level
watchCharles County, MD's typical home value is -1.2% 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 = -1.216498723948117 < 0
arithmetic on Zillow ZHVI, county and metro files; not an official level
watchCharles County, MD's covered employment of 42,569 scores 82 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 48 across Maryland counties, a gap of 34 points.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- 34 = |82 across US counties - 48 across Maryland counties|
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteCharles County, MD's covered employment was 2.5% 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
- -2.5 % = 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
noteCharles County, MD's average weekly wage was 1.4% 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
- +1.4 % = 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
noteCharles County, MD's typical asking rent fell 0.3% from $2,410 in July 2026 to $2,404 in August 2026, on Zillow ZORI.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- -0.3% = (2403.5884331797233 - 2409.7822976970665) / 2409.7822976970665 × 100
- 2403.5884331797233 = Zillow ZORI, 2026-08
- 2409.7822976970665 = Zillow ZORI, 2026-07
noteCharles County, MD's typical home value of -1.2% ranks 23rd of 23 counties in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria metro, against a median of +1.4%.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- 0 on the 0-to-100 scale across 23 counties in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria metro that published home.yoyPct
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteCharles County, MD's price-to-rent ratio of 15.5 ranks 22nd of 22 counties in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria metro, against a median of 20.5.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- 0 on the 0-to-100 scale across 22 counties in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria metro that published priceToRent
- typical home value / (typical rent × 12); Zillow ZHVI over ZORI, same month
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteCharles County, MD's typical asking rent of $2,404 ranks 1st of 20 Maryland counties, against a median of $1,960.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- 100 on the 0-to-100 scale across 20 Maryland counties that published rent.latest
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteCharles County, MD's typical home value of -1.2% ranks 23rd of 24 Maryland counties, against a median of +1.0%.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- 4 on the 0-to-100 scale across 24 Maryland counties that published home.yoyPct
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteCharles County, MD's momentum index of -0.18 ranks 23rd of 24 Maryland counties, against a median of 0.09.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- 4 on the 0-to-100 scale across 24 Maryland counties that published momentum
- momentum = Σ wᵢ · clip(changeᵢ / scaleᵢ, −1, 1) / Σ wᵢ over the terms present; weights and scales: home value 1-yr change 0.3 (±10%), rent 1-yr change 0.15 (±10%), jobs over-the-year change 0.3 (±3%), avg weekly wage over-the-year change 0.25 (±6%)
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteCharles County, MD's momentum index of -0.18 ranks 22nd of 23 counties in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria metro, against a median of -0.01.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- 5 on the 0-to-100 scale across 23 counties in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria metro that published momentum
- momentum = Σ wᵢ · clip(changeᵢ / scaleᵢ, −1, 1) / Σ wᵢ over the terms present; weights and scales: home value 1-yr change 0.3 (±10%), rent 1-yr change 0.15 (±10%), jobs over-the-year change 0.3 (±3%), avg weekly wage over-the-year change 0.25 (±6%)
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
Findings come from a fixed rule table and a fixed sentence per rule. There is no model in this path: the numbers are detected, ordered and worded by code, and every one of them prints the operation that produced it.
Next release #
Trade balance (BEA/Census International Trade in Goods and Services), expected between 2026-10-02 and 2026-10-10.
The window is approximate: the publisher has not posted a date for this release, so it is inferred from the cadence of previous ones.
The same brief, narrowed #
A lens keeps the findings whose subject matches one reader's interest and hides the rest. Every lens brief points its canonical here.
Subscribe #
The same findings as a feed. Entry ids are content hashes with no clock in them, so an unchanged finding is never sent twice.