87th pct · 374th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
85th pct · 15th of 100 North Carolina counties · median $273,108
Home value, one year
-0.7%
as of August 2026
16th pct · 2,559th of 3,063 US counties · median +2.9%
15th pct · 85th of 100 North Carolina counties · median +1.1%
Typical rent
$1,748
as of August 2026
69th pct · 423rd of 1,399 US counties · median $1,496
75th pct · 16th of 63 North Carolina counties · median $1,573
Jobs
795,849
as of 2026 Q1-01
99th pct · 25th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
100th pct · 1st of 100 North Carolina counties · median 16,739
Average weekly wage
$2,167
as of 2026 Q1-01
99th pct · 31st of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
98th pct · 2nd of 100 North Carolina counties · median $984
Years of wages per home
3.7
36th pct · 1,936th of 3,063 US counties · median 4.3
22nd pct · 78th of 100 North Carolina counties · median 5.0
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 $417,072 (Aug 2026), -0.7% over one year, +21.9% over five
87th pct · 374th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
85th pct · 15th of 100 North Carolina counties · median $273,108
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
Mecklenburg County, NC
$417,072 · -0.7% 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 $2,283 a month on $417,072 at 7.28%, against an average weekly wage worth $9,390 a month: 24.3% of one job’s pay.
payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $417,072 × 80% = $333,658, r = 7.28%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-01), n = 360 → $2,283/mo principal and interest
wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $2,167 × 52 / 12 = $9,390) = 24% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
years of wages = $417,072 / ($2,167 × 52) = 3.7
price-to-rent = $417,072 / ($1,748 × 12) = 19.9
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.
795,849 jobs at 52,847 employers (2026 Q1); +1.7% jobs and +3.3% average weekly wage over the year
99th pct · 25th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
100th pct · 1st of 100 North Carolina counties · median 16,739
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
Mecklenburg County, NC
795,849 jobs · $2,167/wk · +1.7% 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
Finance and insurance
90,488
$5,752
2.79
+2.0%
Health care and social assistance
70,834
$1,464
0.59
+5.9%
Accommodation and food services
68,520
$613
0.96
+1.0%
Professional and technical services
68,422
$2,511
1.25
+0.5%
Retail trade
65,039
$911
0.84
-0.5%
Administrative and waste services
59,578
$1,297
1.32
+5.0%
Transportation and warehousing
49,604
$1,523
1.48
+0.6%
Construction
43,711
$1,812
1.05
+4.4%
Wholesale trade
38,042
$2,189
1.25
-1.9%
Manufacturing
34,532
$1,964
0.54
-0.9%
Management of companies
30,597
$4,669
2.30
+6.0%
Other services
20,557
$1,181
0.86
-1.0%
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.
$407.4 bn in deposits at 251 offices of 35 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 5,440, highly concentrated. $-40.6 m federal obligations in FY2026, $-51 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
Bank of America, National Association
$289.5 bn · 71.1% share · 27 offices
Truist Bank
$77.2 bn · 19.0% share · 31 offices
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association
$21.3 bn · 5.2% share · 38 offices
Mecklenburg, NC
$-40.6 m FY2026 · $-51/job
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
Bank of America, National Association
$289,524,299,000
71.1%
27
Truist Bank
$77,199,684,000
19.0%
31
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association
$21,299,130,000
5.2%
38
Fifth Third Bank, National Association
$3,792,923,000
0.9%
33
PNC Bank, National Association
$3,230,677,000
0.8%
8
First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company
$2,379,027,000
0.6%
16
Pinnacle Bank
$1,487,748,000
0.4%
6
TowneBank
$1,281,870,000
0.3%
4
JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association
$1,095,203,000
0.3%
20
First National Bank of Pennsylvania
$1,021,780,000
0.3%
9
Deposit concentration is 5,440 across 34 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls highly concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 34 banks with deposits in the county = 71.1² + 19.0² + 5.2² + … (31 more) = 5,440
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.
unavailableretrieved 2026-10-02USAspending did not return a recipient, agency and NAICS breakdown for this county.
That is -$51 per covered job, against 795,849 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $-40.6 m / 795,849 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $-51
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.
currentretrieved 2026-10-02The company snapshot is a committed fixture, not a pull.
1 public company files with the SEC from a business address here (Nucor Corp). These rows are a committed fixture, not a pull: the snapshot has never been refreshed, so every financial fact is null and the list is not a complete census of filers in this county. The county's jobs mix maps to 10 GICS sectors, led by Financials.
Public filers whose registered business address with the SEC falls in this county, from a committed snapshot of EDGAR's company_tickers_exchange file. A position is the centroid of the address's ZIP code (Census ZCTA) or, where the snapshot says so, of its city: it is not a building. Legal entities only - no officer, insider or shareholder data is read, and Forms 3, 4 and 5 are excluded everywhere. Sector exposure is the county's BLS QCEW jobs mix bridged to GICS sectors by a convention documented in lib/companies/sectors.ts; a jobs mix is not a portfolio.
Item
Value
Distance
Nucor Corp
NUE · NYSE · Materials · Charlotte, NC 28211
This is a committed fixture, not a pull: 1 filers are named and their financial facts are empty until the snapshot is refreshed. An absent company is not evidence that none is headquartered here.
Public filers whose registered business address with the SEC falls in this county, from a committed snapshot of EDGAR's company_tickers_exchange file. A position is the centroid of the address's ZIP code (Census ZCTA) or, where the snapshot says so, of its city: it is not a building. Legal entities only - no officer, insider or shareholder data is read, and Forms 3, 4 and 5 are excluded everywhere. Sector exposure is the county's BLS QCEW jobs mix bridged to GICS sectors by a convention documented in lib/companies/sectors.ts; a jobs mix is not a portfolio.
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 · %
71.30
2026-10-01
+0.1%
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.
Mecklenburg County, NC: 10 findings, 1 at a watch level and 9 noted
watchMecklenburg County, NC's typical home value is -0.7% 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.
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test: home.yoyPct = -0.7060926574303719 < 0
arithmetic on Zillow ZHVI, county and metro files; not an official level
noteMecklenburg County, NC's average weekly wage was 3.3% 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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+3.3 % = 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
noteMecklenburg County, NC's covered employment was 1.7% 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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+1.7 % = 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
noteMecklenburg County, NC's covered employment of 795,849 ranks 1st of 100 North Carolina counties, against a median of 16,739.
Period 2026 Q1.
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100 on the 0-to-100 scale across 100 North Carolina counties that published jobs.emp
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteMecklenburg County, NC's covered employment of 795,849 ranks 25th of 3,221 US counties, against a median of 8,232.
Period 2026 Q1.
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99 on the 0-to-100 scale across 3221 US counties that published jobs.emp
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level