Grant County, OR
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 44.50, -119.01.
Assembled 2026-10-07. Read the brief.
- 66th pct · 1,020th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 8th pct · 33rd of 36 Oregon counties · median $432,775
- 43rd pct · 1,733rd of 3,063 US counties · median +2.9%
- 77th pct · 9th of 36 Oregon counties · median +0.6%
- US counties: not published this period
- Oregon counties: not published this period
- 17th pct · 2,642nd of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 8th pct · 33rd of 36 Oregon counties · median 15,683
- 49th pct · 1,630th of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 20th pct · 29th of 36 Oregon counties · median $1,074
- 70th pct · 919th of 3,063 US counties · median 4.3
- 17th pct · 30th of 36 Oregon counties · median 6.8
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 $288,406 (Aug 2026), +2.4% over one year, +24.1% over five
- 66th pct · 1,020th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 8th pct · 33rd of 36 Oregon counties · median $432,775
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Grant County, OR | $288,406 · +2.4% 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
- Oregon 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 $1,579 a month on $288,406 at 7.28%, against an average weekly wage worth $4,489 a month: 35.2% of one job’s pay.
- payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $288,406 × 80% = $230,725, r = 7.28%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-01), n = 360 → $1,579/mo principal and interest
- wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $1,036 × 52 / 12 = $4,489) = 35% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
- years of wages = $288,406 / ($1,036 × 52) = 5.4
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 #
2,204 jobs at 326 employers (2026 Q1); -5.2% jobs and +2.6% average weekly wage over the year
- 17th pct · 2,642nd of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 8th pct · 33rd of 36 Oregon counties · median 15,683
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Grant County, OR | 2,204 jobs · $1,036/wk · -5.2% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retail trade | 209 | $626 | 0.97 | -7.9% |
| Agriculture, forestry, fishing | 188 | $927 | 11.81 | -6.9% |
| Accommodation and food services | 138 | $394 | 0.70 | +5.3% |
| Construction | 78 | $1,009 | 0.68 | -18.8% |
| Other services | 67 | $742 | 1.02 | -5.6% |
| Administrative and waste services | 58 | $566 | 0.46 | +0.0% |
| Finance and insurance | 47 | $1,248 | 0.52 | +0.0% |
| Information | 35 | $1,551 | 0.86 | -25.5% |
| Transportation and warehousing | 32 | $1,100 | 0.34 | +0.0% |
| Arts, entertainment and recreation | 24 | $969 | 0.66 | -17.2% |
| Real estate and rental | 13 | $869 | 0.38 | -13.3% |
| Manufacturing | 9 | $1,471 | 0.05 | -71.0% |
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.
Drought #
D3 extreme 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 #
15 gauges · 0 flooding · 4 with quality panels averaging 100 % · 1 stale
Sites found: 15, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| JOHN DAY RIVER NEAR JOHN DAY, OR | flow 59.4 ft³/s · quality 100 % (1) · no flooding | 12 km |
| Canyon Creek near Canyon City | no readings | 14 km |
| Canyon Creek at Thissels Ranch | out of service | 28 km |
| MF JOHN DAY RIVER ABV CAMP CREEK, NR GALENA, OR | flow 14.2 ft³/s · quality 100 % (1) | 28 km |
| Strawberry Creek near Prairie City | no readings | 33 km |
| JOHN DAY R AT BLUE MTN HOT SPGS NR PRAIRIE CITY,OR | flow 23.7 ft³/s | 38 km |
| S. Fork John Day River near Dayville | no readings | 43 km |
| MIDDLE FORK JOHN DAY RIVER AT RITTER, OR | flow 20.4 ft³/s · quality 100 % (1) | 45 km |
| Silvies River below Soda Spring | no readings | 45 km |
| Murderers Creek near Dayville | no readings | 46 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 #
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 (0.48)
Σ wᵢ·termᵢ / Σ wᵢ = 0.35×0.75 + 0.2×0.00 / 0.55
Banks & federal dollars #
$99.5 m in deposits at 2 offices of 1 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 10,000, highly concentrated. $111.5 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $61.4 m, grants $28.8 m), $50,594 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Bank of Eastern Oregon | $99.5 m · 100.0% share · 2 offices | |
| Grant, OR | $111.5 m FY2026 · $50,594/job | |
| MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS | $57.1 m · top recipient FY2026 |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bank of Eastern Oregon | $99,524,000 | 100.0% | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Department of Agriculture | $49,772,818 |
| Social Security Administration | $49,284,280 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $7,653,441 |
| Department of Transportation | $2,449,789 |
| Department of Defense | $1,511,709 |
| Department of Justice | $299,913 |
| Railroad Retirement Board | $208,940 |
| Federal Communications Commission | $194,257 |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | $130,756 |
| Department of Education | $84,374 |
| Small Business Administration | -$33,774 |
| Department of the Interior | -$47,729 |
That is $50,594 per covered job, against 2,204 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $111.5 m / 2,204 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $50,594
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 #
Grant County, OR: 15 findings, 1 at an alert level, 4 at a watch level and 10 noted
alertGrant County, OR's covered employment is -5.2% 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 = -5.2 <= -3
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level
watchGrant County, OR's covered employment is -5.2% 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 = -5.2 < 0
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level
watchGrant County, OR's typical home value of $288,406 scores 67 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 9 across Oregon counties, a gap of 58 points.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- 58 = |67 across US counties - 9 across Oregon counties|
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
watchGrant County, OR's years of wages of 5.4 scores 70 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 17 across Oregon counties, a gap of 53 points.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- 53 = |70 across US counties - 17 across Oregon 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
watchGrant County, OR's typical home value of +2.4% scores 43 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 77 across Oregon counties, a gap of 34 points.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- 34 = |43 across US counties - 77 across Oregon counties|
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.