Attala County, MS
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 33.09, -89.59.
Assembled 2026-10-06. Read the brief.
- 5th pct · 2,883rd of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 18th pct · 65th of 80 Mississippi counties · median $151,974
- 3rd pct · 2,964th of 3,063 US counties · median +2.9%
- 12th pct · 70th of 80 Mississippi counties · median +1.3%
- US counties: not published this period
- Mississippi counties: not published this period
- 34th pct · 2,100th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 35th pct · 53rd of 82 Mississippi counties · median 6,322
- 22nd pct · 2,502nd of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 54th pct · 37th of 82 Mississippi counties · median $903
- 9th pct · 2,765th of 3,063 US counties · median 4.3
- 17th pct · 66th of 80 Mississippi counties · median 3.3
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.
Home values #
Typical home $117,223 (Aug 2026), -6.3% over one year, -11.8% over five
- 5th pct · 2,883rd of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 18th pct · 65th of 80 Mississippi counties · median $151,974
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Attala County, MS | $117,223 · -6.3% 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.
Rents #
Zillow publishes no rent index for this area (ZORI covers about 1,400 counties)
- US counties: not published this period
- Mississippi 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 $642 a month on $117,223 at 7.28%, against an average weekly wage worth $3,969 a month: 16.2% of one job’s pay.
- payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $117,223 × 80% = $93,779, r = 7.28%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-01), n = 360 → $642/mo principal and interest
- wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $916 × 52 / 12 = $3,969) = 16% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
- years of wages = $117,223 / ($916 × 52) = 2.5
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 #
4,605 jobs at 414 employers (2026 Q1); +2.3% jobs and +7.4% average weekly wage over the year
- 34th pct · 2,100th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 35th pct · 53rd of 82 Mississippi counties · median 6,322
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Attala County, MS | 4,605 jobs · $916/wk · +2.3% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retail trade | 797 | $564 | 1.78 | +4.0% |
| Manufacturing | 670 | $1,065 | 1.81 | +9.1% |
| Construction | 416 | $1,681 | 1.72 | +23.1% |
| Accommodation and food services | 398 | $312 | 0.96 | -5.5% |
| Professional and technical services | 111 | $888 | 0.35 | +0.0% |
| Finance and insurance | 109 | $1,048 | 0.58 | -9.2% |
| Transportation and warehousing | 101 | $1,226 | 0.52 | -19.2% |
| Other services | 71 | $782 | 0.52 | -2.7% |
| Information | 28 | $1,495 | 0.33 | +0.0% |
| Real estate and rental | 18 | $715 | 0.25 | -33.3% |
| Agriculture, forestry, fishing | 12 | $778 | 0.36 | -33.3% |
| Arts, entertainment and recreation | 7 | $317 | 0.09 | -12.5% |
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 #
D1 moderate drought
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 #
moderate (0.25)
Σ wᵢ·termᵢ / Σ wᵢ = 0.35×0.25 / 0.35
Banks & federal dollars #
$450.4 m in deposits at 7 offices of 5 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 4,231, highly concentrated. $111.0 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $108.9 m, contracts $1.7 m), $24,099 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Renasant Bank | $269.0 m · 59.7% share · 2 offices | |
| The Citizens National Bank of Meridian | $107.0 m · 23.8% share · 2 offices | |
| Regions Bank | $30.1 m · 6.7% share · 1 office | |
| Attala, MS | $111.0 m FY2026 · $24,099/job | |
| MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS | $106.2 m · top recipient FY2026 |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| Renasant Bank | $269,022,000 | 59.7% | 2 |
| The Citizens National Bank of Meridian | $107,001,000 | 23.8% | 2 |
| Regions Bank | $30,059,000 | 6.7% | 1 |
| The Citizens Bank of Philadelphia, Mississippi | $29,512,000 | 6.6% | 1 |
| Bank of Commerce | $14,791,000 | 3.3% | 1 |
Deposit concentration is 4,231 across 5 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls highly concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 5 banks with deposits in the county = 59.7² + 23.8² + 6.7² + … (2 more) = 4,231
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 | $94,884,334 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $12,387,584 |
| Department of Agriculture | $1,685,697 |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | $1,054,927 |
| Railroad Retirement Board | $558,061 |
| Federal Communications Commission | $270,465 |
| Department of the Interior | $57,610 |
| Department of Transportation | $55,939 |
| Consumer Product Safety Commission | $23,307 |
That is $24,099 per covered job, against 4,605 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $111.0 m / 4,605 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $24,099
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 #
Attala County, MS: 11 findings, 1 at an alert level, 3 at a watch level and 7 noted
alertAttala County, MS' typical home value is -6.3% 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 = -6.292231806073563 <= -5
arithmetic on Zillow ZHVI, county and metro files; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level
watchAttala County, MS' typical home value is -6.3% 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 = -6.292231806073563 < 0
arithmetic on Zillow ZHVI, county and metro files; not an official level
watchAttala County, MS' typical home value is -1.4% against the previous month, a watch level here: typical home value at least 1 percent below the previous month (arithmetic on the Zillow ZHVI month columns; 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.momPct = -1.393447439329907 <= -1
- month-over-month percent change = (newest month − previous month) / |previous month| × 100, from Zillow's own published month columns
arithmetic on the Zillow ZHVI month columns; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level
watchAttala County, MS' average weekly wage of $916 scores 22 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 55 across Mississippi counties, a gap of 33 points.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- 33 = |22 across US counties - 55 across Mississippi counties|
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteAttala County, MS' average weekly wage was 7.4% 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
- +7.4 % = 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
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.