Sheridan County, ND
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 47.58, -100.33.
Assembled 2026-10-07. Read the brief.
- 7th pct · 2,845th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 4th pct · 41st of 43 North Dakota counties · median $198,465
- 1st pct · 3,013th of 3,063 US counties · median +2.9%
- 0th pct · 43rd of 43 North Dakota counties · median +6.1%
- US counties: not published this period
- North Dakota counties: not published this period
- 0th pct · 3,210th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 1st pct · 52nd of 53 North Dakota counties · median 1,520
- 5th pct · 3,034th of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 1st pct · 52nd of 53 North Dakota counties · median $1,064
- 19th pct · 2,471st of 3,063 US counties · median 4.3
- 38th pct · 27th 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.
Home values #
Typical home $122,543 (Aug 2026), -9.5% over one year, -44.7% over five
- 7th pct · 2,845th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 4th pct · 41st of 43 North Dakota counties · median $198,465
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Sheridan County, ND | $122,543 · -9.5% 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
- North Dakota 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 $671 a month on $122,543 at 7.28%, against an average weekly wage worth $3,436 a month: 19.5% of one job’s pay.
- payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $122,543 × 80% = $98,034, r = 7.28%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-01), n = 360 → $671/mo principal and interest
- wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $793 × 52 / 12 = $3,436) = 20% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
- years of wages = $122,543 / ($793 × 52) = 3.0
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 #
191 jobs at 48 employers (2026 Q1); -10.3% jobs and +14.9% average weekly wage over the year
- 0th pct · 3,210th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 1st pct · 52nd of 53 North Dakota counties · median 1,520
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Sheridan County, ND | 191 jobs · $793/wk · -10.3% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other services | 6 | $787 | 1.05 | +0.0% |
| Agriculture, forestry, fishing | withheld | |||
| Utilities | withheld | |||
| Construction | withheld | |||
| Wholesale trade | withheld | |||
| Retail trade | withheld | |||
| Transportation and warehousing | withheld | |||
| Finance and insurance | withheld | |||
| Real estate and rental | withheld | |||
| Professional and technical services | withheld | |||
| Administrative and waste services | withheld | |||
| Health care and social assistance | withheld |
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 #
D2 severe 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 #
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.
Stream gauges #
14 gauges · 0 flooding · 3 with quality panels averaging 67 % · 4 stale
Sites found: 14, 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.
| Site | Reading | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| JAMES RIVER ON US HWY 52 NEAR MANFRED, ND | temp 15.9 °C · quality 50 % (2) | 42 km |
| JAMES RIVER NEAR MANFRED, ND | flow 0.00 ft³/s · quality 50 % (2) · STALE | 38 km |
| SHEYENNE RIVER ABOVE HARVEY, ND | stage 5.71 ft · quality 100 % (1) | 32 km |
| PAINTED WOODS CREEK NR STILL, ND | flow 0.01 ft³/s · STALE | 42 km |
| PAINTED WOODS CREEK NR WILTON, ND | flow 13.5 ft³/s · STALE | 49 km |
| PAINTED WOODS CREEK NR WASHBURN, ND | flow 3.00 ft³/s · STALE | 57 km |
| MISSOURI RIVER AT WASHBURN, ND | stage 7.87 ft | 62 km |
| WINTERING RIVER NEAR KARLSRUHE, ND | stage 6.31 ft · no flooding | 64 km |
| Sheyenne River near Maddock | out of service | 69 km |
| Souris River at Velva | observation not current | 70 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.
Groundwater #
8 wells in 0 named aquifers:
Sites found: 8, 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.
| Site | Reading | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| USGS-475225100075501 | depth 26.3 ft · 1973-11-30 | 36 km |
| USGS-473430100491402 | depth 35.9 ft · 1982-12-02 | 37 km |
| USGS-474026100583201 | depth 9.37 ft · 1997-09-30 | 49 km |
| USGS-475139099484801 | depth 75.4 ft · 1999-09-29 | 50 km |
| USGS-473524101001701 | depth 14.4 ft · 1977-12-28 | 51 km |
| USGS-474958100565001 | depth 2.34 ft · 1994-12-15 | 54 km |
| USGS-480357099481901 | depth 4.82 ft · 1970-11-05 | 67 km |
| USGS-480913100372501 | depth 75.1 ft · 2021-06-30 | 67 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.
Water stress #
moderate (0.44)
Σ wᵢ·termᵢ / Σ wᵢ = 0.35×0.50 + 0.2×0.33 / 0.55
Banks & federal dollars #
$40.7 m in deposits at 1 offices of 1 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 10,000, highly concentrated. $10.0 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $11.7 m, contracts $2.0 m), $52,386 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Bravera Bank | $40.7 m · 100.0% share · 1 office | |
| Sheridan, ND | $10.0 m FY2026 · $52,386/job | |
| MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS | $8.3 m · top recipient FY2026 |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bravera Bank | $40,733,000 | 100.0% | 1 |
Deposit concentration is 10,000 across 1 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls highly concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 1 banks with deposits in the county = 100.0² = 10,000
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 | $7,658,309 |
| Department of Agriculture | $3,391,873 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $398,858 |
| Railroad Retirement Board | $246,081 |
| Department of Transportation | -$1,689,474 |
That is $52,386 per covered job, against 191 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $10.0 m / 191 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $52,386
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 #
Sheridan County, ND: 22 findings, 2 at an alert level, 3 at a watch level and 17 noted
alertSheridan County, ND's covered employment is -10.3% 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.Show the arithmetic
- test: jobs.yoy.emp = -10.3 <= -3
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level
alertSheridan County, ND's typical home value is -9.5% 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 = -9.455993342315251 <= -5
arithmetic on Zillow ZHVI, county and metro files; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level
watchSheridan County, ND's covered employment is -10.3% 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.Show the arithmetic
- test: jobs.yoy.emp = -10.3 < 0
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level
watchSheridan County, ND's typical home value is -9.5% 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 = -9.455993342315251 < 0
arithmetic on Zillow ZHVI, county and metro files; not an official level
watchSheridan County, ND's momentum index is -0.39, a watch level here: momentum index in the cooling band (the cooling band of the momentum index computed here, score at or below -0.25; 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: momentum = -0.39256447090524405 <= -0.25
- momentum = Σ wᵢ · clip(changeᵢ / scaleᵢ, −1, 1) / Σ wᵢ over the terms present; weights and scales: home value 1-yr change 0.3 (±10%), rent 1-yr change 0.15 (±10%), jobs over-the-year change 0.3 (±3%), avg weekly wage over-the-year change 0.25 (±6%)
the cooling band of the momentum index computed here, score at or below -0.25; convention chosen for this dashboard, 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.