63rd pct · 1,106th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
Home value, one year
+4.3%
as of August 2026
65th pct · 1,059th of 3,063 US counties · median +2.9%
Typical rent
$1,280
as of August 2026
28th pct · 994th of 1,399 US counties · median $1,496
Jobs
122,049
as of 2026 Q1-01
91st pct · 262nd of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
Average weekly wage
$1,400
as of 2026 Q1-01
89th pct · 337th of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
Years of wages per home
3.8
39th pct · 1,840th 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 $278,141 (Aug 2026), +4.3% over one year, +25.4% over five
63rd pct · 1,106th 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
Kalamazoo County
$278,141 · +4.3% 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 $1,522 a month on $278,141 at 7.28%, against an average weekly wage worth $6,067 a month: 25.1% of one job’s pay.
payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $278,141 × 80% = $222,513, r = 7.28%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-01), n = 360 → $1,522/mo principal and interest
wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $1,400 × 52 / 12 = $6,067) = 25% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
years of wages = $278,141 / ($1,400 × 52) = 3.8
price-to-rent = $278,141 / ($1,280 × 12) = 18.1
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.
122,049 jobs at 6,186 employers (2026 Q1); +0.3% jobs and +1.2% average weekly wage over the year
91st pct · 262nd 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
Kalamazoo County
122,049 jobs · $1,400/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
21,172
$1,459
1.15
+0.4%
Manufacturing
20,512
$2,344
2.09
-2.2%
Retail trade
12,211
$771
1.03
+0.5%
Accommodation and food services
11,117
$475
1.01
+0.3%
Construction
6,053
$1,526
0.95
+3.0%
Professional and technical services
5,963
$1,667
0.71
+0.3%
Administrative and waste services
5,498
$902
0.79
+1.6%
Wholesale trade
5,073
$1,618
1.09
+0.0%
Other services
4,465
$1,008
1.22
+1.8%
Finance and insurance
3,431
$2,308
0.69
+2.5%
Educational services
2,945
$992
1.12
-2.9%
Real estate and rental
1,799
$1,180
0.96
+2.8%
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.
$4.6 bn in deposits at 45 offices of 13 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 1,487, moderately concentrated. $1.7 bn federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $1.5 bn, grants $115.0 m), $13,623 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
Fifth Third Bank, National Association
$1.2 bn · 26.6% share · 11 offices
PNC Bank, National Association
$854.3 m · 18.6% share · 6 offices
First National Bank of Michigan
$597.3 m · 13.0% share · 3 offices
Kalamazoo, MI
$1.7 bn FY2026 · $13,623/job
MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS
$1.4 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
Fifth Third Bank, National Association
$1,223,201,000
26.6%
11
PNC Bank, National Association
$854,324,000
18.6%
6
First National Bank of Michigan
$597,273,000
13.0%
3
Mercantile Bank
$487,968,000
10.6%
3
JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association
$340,306,000
7.4%
2
Old National Bank
$290,022,000
6.3%
3
The Huntington National Bank
$272,967,000
5.9%
4
Southern Michigan Bank & Trust
$145,117,000
3.2%
2
Flagstar Bank, National Association
$91,142,000
2.0%
2
Kalamazoo County State Bank
$84,604,000
1.8%
2
Deposit concentration is 1,487 across 13 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls moderately concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 13 banks with deposits in the county = 26.6² + 18.6² + 13.0² + … (10 more) = 1,487
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
$1,329,311,804
Department of Veterans Affairs
$128,887,771
Department of Transportation
$79,354,968
Department of Education
$42,916,971
Department of Housing and Urban Development
$20,760,416
Department of Health and Human Services
$19,796,157
Department of Defense
$13,191,105
Department of Justice
$6,908,308
Department of Energy
$4,967,938
Federal Communications Commission
$4,008,157
Department of Agriculture
$4,001,254
Railroad Retirement Board
$3,827,230
That is $13,623 per covered job, against 122,049 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $1.7 bn / 122,049 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $13,623
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 26077, MI's average weekly wage was 1.2% 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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+1.2 % = 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
noteFIPS 26077, MI's typical asking rent rose 0.8% from $1,270 in July 2026 to $1,280 in August 2026, on Zillow ZORI.