Pike County, MS
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 31.18, -90.40.
Assembled 2026-10-07. Read the brief.
- 5th pct · 2,895th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 16th pct · 67th of 80 Mississippi counties · median $151,974
- 92nd pct · 222nd of 3,063 US counties · median +2.9%
- 89th pct · 9th of 80 Mississippi counties · median +1.3%
- 15th pct · 1,182nd of 1,399 US counties · median $1,496
- 5th pct · 17th of 18 Mississippi counties · median $1,402
- 63rd pct · 1,163rd of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 81st pct · 16th of 82 Mississippi counties · median 6,322
- 11th pct · 2,856th of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 32nd pct · 56th of 82 Mississippi counties · median $903
- 12th pct · 2,684th of 3,063 US counties · median 4.3
- 27th pct · 58th 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 $115,585 (Aug 2026), +8.6% over one year, -6.0% over five
- 5th pct · 2,895th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 16th pct · 67th of 80 Mississippi counties · median $151,974
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Pike County, MS | $115,585 · +8.6% 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 #
Typical rent $1,108/mo (Aug 2026), n/a over one year; price-to-rent 8.7
- 15th pct · 1,182nd of 1,399 US counties · median $1,496
- 5th pct · 17th of 18 Mississippi counties · median $1,402
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Pike County, MS | $1,108/mo · n/a 1-yr |
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 $633 a month on $115,585 at 7.28%, against an average weekly wage worth $3,675 a month: 17.2% of one job’s pay.
- payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $115,585 × 80% = $92,468, r = 7.28%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-01), n = 360 → $633/mo principal and interest
- wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $848 × 52 / 12 = $3,675) = 17% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
- years of wages = $115,585 / ($848 × 52) = 2.6
- price-to-rent = $115,585 / ($1,108 × 12) = 8.7
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 #
14,592 jobs at 1,044 employers (2026 Q1); +6.6% jobs and +1.8% average weekly wage over the year
- 63rd pct · 1,163rd of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 81st pct · 16th of 82 Mississippi counties · median 6,322
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Pike County, MS | 14,592 jobs · $848/wk · +6.6% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manufacturing | 2,687 | $990 | 2.29 | +70.3% |
| Retail trade | 2,187 | $606 | 1.54 | -1.8% |
| Accommodation and food services | 1,493 | $325 | 1.14 | -4.0% |
| Health care and social assistance | 1,341 | $848 | 0.61 | -10.6% |
| Transportation and warehousing | 408 | $826 | 0.66 | +7.9% |
| Construction | 391 | $1,163 | 0.51 | +33.9% |
| Finance and insurance | 379 | $1,237 | 0.64 | -3.3% |
| Administrative and waste services | 364 | $882 | 0.44 | -3.7% |
| Wholesale trade | 339 | $1,189 | 0.61 | -11.3% |
| Agriculture, forestry, fishing | 318 | $969 | 3.02 | +0.3% |
| Other services | 267 | $797 | 0.61 | -1.5% |
| Professional and technical services | 220 | $936 | 0.22 | +1.9% |
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 #
$992.1 m in deposits at 17 offices of 7 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 2,084, highly concentrated. $299.1 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $256.3 m, grants $42.7 m), $20,496 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| First Bank | $258.1 m · 26.0% share · 7 offices | |
| Pike National Bank | $219.3 m · 22.1% share · 3 offices | |
| Trustmark Bank | $209.7 m · 21.1% share · 2 offices | |
| Pike, MS | $299.1 m FY2026 · $20,496/job | |
| MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS | $235.0 m · top recipient FY2026 |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Bank | $258,091,000 | 26.0% | 7 |
| Pike National Bank | $219,314,000 | 22.1% | 3 |
| Trustmark Bank | $209,705,000 | 21.1% | 2 |
| Regions Bank | $201,625,000 | 20.3% | 2 |
| Bank of Franklin | $71,054,000 | 7.2% | 1 |
| Citizens Bank | $26,376,000 | 2.7% | 1 |
| Woodforest National Bank | $5,894,000 | 0.6% | 1 |
Deposit concentration is 2,084 across 7 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls highly concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 7 banks with deposits in the county = 26.0² + 22.1² + 21.1² + … (4 more) = 2,084
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 | $199,504,741 |
| Department of Transportation | $41,497,678 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $30,786,512 |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | $14,510,096 |
| Department of Education | $7,019,016 |
| Railroad Retirement Board | $4,688,182 |
| Department of Agriculture | $1,140,412 |
| Small Business Administration | $4,350 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | $0 |
| Federal Communications Commission | -$72,630 |
That is $20,496 per covered job, against 14,592 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $299.1 m / 14,592 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $20,496
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 | 3.00 | 2026-10-06 | -50.0% |
| Shanghai to Los Angeles container rate · $ per 40 ft box | 7,848.00 | 2026-09-01 | +14.9% |
| 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 #
Pike County, MS: 15 findings, 1 at a watch level and 14 noted
watchPike County, MS' typical asking rent rose 8.6% from $1,021 in July 2026 to $1,108 in August 2026, on Zillow ZORI.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- +8.6% = (1108 - 1020.568935826074) / 1020.568935826074 × 100
- 1108 = Zillow ZORI, 2026-08
- 1020.568935826074 = Zillow ZORI, 2026-07
notePike County, MS' covered employment was 6.6% 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
- +6.6 % = 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
notePike County, MS' average weekly wage was 1.8% 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
- +1.8 % = 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
notePike County, MS' typical home value rose 1.8% from $113,579 in July 2026 to $115,585 in August 2026, on Zillow ZHVI.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- +1.8% = (115584.5696650248 - 113579.2742863369) / 113579.2742863369 × 100
- 115584.5696650248 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-08
- 113579.2742863369 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-07
notePike County, MS' price-to-rent ratio of 8.7 ranks 1,391st of 1,399 US counties, against a median of 17.2.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- 1 on the 0-to-100 scale across 1399 US counties 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
Read all 12 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.