82nd pct · 543rd of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
97th pct · 2nd of 43 North Dakota counties · median $198,465
Home value, one year
+6.6%
as of August 2026
83rd pct · 499th of 3,063 US counties · median +2.9%
59th pct · 18th of 43 North Dakota counties · median +6.1%
Typical rent
$1,254
as of August 2026
26th pct · 1,030th of 1,399 US counties · median $1,496
50th pct · 6th of 11 North Dakota counties · median $1,254
Jobs
11,125
as of 2026 Q1-01
57th pct · 1,379th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
86th pct · 8th of 53 North Dakota counties · median 1,520
Average weekly wage
$1,818
as of 2026 Q1-01
97th pct · 85th of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
96th pct · 3rd of 53 North Dakota counties · median $1,064
Years of wages per home
3.9
42nd pct · 1,754th of 3,063 US counties · median 4.3
73rd pct · 12th of 43 North Dakota 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.
Typical home $371,602 (Aug 2026), +6.6% over one year, +14.6% over five
82nd pct · 543rd of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
97th pct · 2nd of 43 North Dakota counties · median $198,465
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
McKenzie County, ND
$371,602 · +6.6% 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.
Principal and interest of $2,034 a month on $371,602 at 7.28%, against an average weekly wage worth $7,878 a month: 25.8% of one job’s pay.
payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $371,602 × 80% = $297,282, r = 7.28%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-01), n = 360 → $2,034/mo principal and interest
wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $1,818 × 52 / 12 = $7,878) = 26% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
years of wages = $371,602 / ($1,818 × 52) = 3.9
price-to-rent = $371,602 / ($1,254 × 12) = 24.7
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.
11,125 jobs at 844 employers (2026 Q1); -5.0% jobs and +0.7% average weekly wage over the year
57th pct · 1,379th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
86th pct · 8th of 53 North Dakota counties · median 1,520
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
McKenzie County, ND
11,125 jobs · $1,818/wk · -5.0% 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
Mining, oil and gas
1,809
$2,962
45.67
-10.8%
Transportation and warehousing
1,554
$2,716
3.31
+7.9%
Retail trade
617
$727
0.57
+2.2%
Health care and social assistance
591
$1,295
0.35
+9.9%
Wholesale trade
509
$2,288
1.19
-12.7%
Accommodation and food services
466
$518
0.47
+9.1%
Professional and technical services
419
$1,807
0.55
-12.2%
Real estate and rental
353
$2,376
2.07
-9.7%
Finance and insurance
111
$2,799
0.24
+1.8%
Utilities
97
$2,556
2.21
+11.5%
Arts, entertainment and recreation
29
$401
0.16
-6.5%
Agriculture, forestry, fishing
28
$788
0.35
+12.0%
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.
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.
No reservoir gauges within 150 km (or the camera is above the gauge altitude)
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.
18 gauges · 0 flooding · 5 with quality panels averaging 65 % · 2 stale
Sites found: 18, 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.
Site
Reading
Distance
UNNAMED TRIB @ JACKSON WELL NR CHARBONNEAU, ND
temp 0.20 °C · quality 50 % (2) · STALE
26 km
CHARBONNEAU CREEK NR CHARBONNEAU, ND
flow 0.47 ft³/s · quality 50 % (2) · STALE
32 km
LITTLE MUDDY RIVER BL COW CREEK NR WILLISTON, ND
flow 3.88 ft³/s · quality 50 % (2) · no flooding
62 km
CHERRY CREEK ON STATE HIGHWAY 23 NEAR SCHAFER, ND
flow 1.66 ft³/s
18 km
LITTLE MISSOURI RIVER NEAR WATFORD CITY, ND
flow 3.84 ft³/s · no flooding
20 km
TOBACCO GARDEN CREEK NEAR WATFORD CITY, ND
flow 4.41 ft³/s
33 km
YELLOWSTONE RIVER NO. 2 NEAR CARTWRIGHT, ND
stage 62.7 ft
44 km
MISSOURI RIVER NO. 9 AT WILLISTON, ND
stage 22.7 ft
47 km
MISSOURI RIVER NEAR WILLISTON, ND
stage 12.9 ft · quality 100 % (1) · no flooding
47 km
BEAR DEN CREEK NEAR MANDAREE, ND
flow 0.06 ft³/s
48 km
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.
Sites found: 5, 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.
Site
Reading
Distance
USGS-475341103424102
depth 107.8 ft · 2021-06-30
29 km
USGS-480124103485901
depth 6.45 ft · 1982-12-02
44 km
USGS-481056103033001
depth 31.4 ft · 1982-12-01
55 km
USGS-472144102453402
depth 4.64 ft · 2021-06-30
64 km
USGS-475840102295001
depth 57.6 ft · 1977-12-09
72 km
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.
$1.4 bn in deposits at 5 offices of 3 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 5,913, highly concentrated. $-66,043 federal obligations in FY2026, $-6 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
First International Bank & Trust
$1.0 bn · 73.6% share · 3 offices
Cornerstone Bank
$305.7 m · 22.0% share · 1 office
BNC National Bank
$62.5 m · 4.5% share · 1 office
McKenzie, ND
$-66,043 FY2026 · $-6/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
First International Bank & Trust
$1,024,399,000
73.6%
3
Cornerstone Bank
$305,668,000
22.0%
1
BNC National Bank
$62,479,000
4.5%
1
Deposit concentration is 5,913 across 3 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls highly concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 3 banks with deposits in the county = 73.6² + 22.0² + 4.5² = 5,913
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 -$6 per covered job, against 11,125 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $-66,043 / 11,125 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $-6
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 · %
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.
McKenzie County, ND: 16 findings, 1 at an alert level, 4 at a watch level and 11 noted
alertMcKenzie County, ND's covered employment is -5.0% against a year earlier, an alert level here: covered employment at least 3 percent below the same quarter a year earlier (BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; 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 Q1.
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test: jobs.yoy.emp = -5 <= -3
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level
watchMcKenzie County, ND's covered employment is -5.0% 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.
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test: jobs.yoy.emp = -5 < 0
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level
watchMcKenzie County, ND's price-to-rent ratio of 24.7 ranks 96th of 1,399 US counties, a watch level here: price-to-rent in the top tenth of US counties (position among the counties that published both ZHVI and ZORI this month; not an official level). The previous published period is not in this table, so this is a standing level rather than a change.
typical home value / (typical rent × 12); Zillow ZHVI over ZORI, same month
position among the counties that published both ZHVI and ZORI this month; not an official level
watchMcKenzie County, ND's typical asking rent is -1.7% against the previous month, a watch level here: typical asking rent at least 1 percent below the previous month (arithmetic on the Zillow ZORI 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.
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test: rent.momPct = -1.6602658722470187 <= -1
month-over-month percent change = (newest month − previous month) / |previous month| × 100, from Zillow's own published month columns
arithmetic on the Zillow ZORI month columns; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level
watchMcKenzie County, ND's years of wages of 3.9 scores 43 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 74 across North Dakota counties, a gap of 31 points.
Period 2026-08.
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31 = |43 across US counties - 74 across North Dakota counties|
typical home value / (average weekly wage × 52); one average covered job, not a household
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level