Pike County, PA
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 41.33, -75.03.
Assembled 2026-10-06. Read the brief.
- 70th pct · 897th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 75th pct · 17th of 67 Pennsylvania counties · median $233,681
- 57th pct · 1,294th of 3,063 US counties · median +2.9%
- 59th pct · 28th of 67 Pennsylvania counties · median +3.4%
- 87th pct · 173rd of 1,399 US counties · median $1,496
- 95th pct · 3rd of 48 Pennsylvania counties · median $1,349
- 58th pct · 1,339th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 13th pct · 58th of 67 Pennsylvania counties · median 27,809
- 18th pct · 2,617th of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 6th pct · 63rd of 67 Pennsylvania counties · median $1,102
- 84th pct · 472nd of 3,063 US counties · median 4.3
- 96th pct · 3rd of 67 Pennsylvania counties · median 3.8
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 $306,296 (Aug 2026), +3.7% over one year, +30.5% over five
- 70th pct · 897th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 75th pct · 17th of 67 Pennsylvania counties · median $233,681
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Pike County, PA | $306,296 · +3.7% 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.
Rents #
Typical rent $2,108/mo (Aug 2026), +10.6% over one year; price-to-rent 12.1
- 87th pct · 173rd of 1,399 US counties · median $1,496
- 95th pct · 3rd of 48 Pennsylvania counties · median $1,349
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Pike County, PA | $2,108/mo · +10.6% 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 $1,677 a month on $306,296 at 7.28%, against an average weekly wage worth $3,891 a month: 43.1% of one job’s pay.
- payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $306,296 × 80% = $245,037, r = 7.28%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-01), n = 360 → $1,677/mo principal and interest
- wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $898 × 52 / 12 = $3,891) = 43% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
- years of wages = $306,296 / ($898 × 52) = 6.6
- price-to-rent = $306,296 / ($2,108 × 12) = 12.1
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 #
11,766 jobs at 1,159 employers (2026 Q1); +0.2% jobs and +0.1% average weekly wage over the year
- 58th pct · 1,339th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 13th pct · 58th of 67 Pennsylvania counties · median 27,809
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Pike County, PA | 11,766 jobs · $898/wk · +0.2% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accommodation and food services | 2,268 | $628 | 2.15 | +4.2% |
| Retail trade | 2,170 | $618 | 1.89 | -1.2% |
| Health care and social assistance | 1,340 | $908 | 0.76 | +5.3% |
| Other services | 831 | $671 | 2.36 | +4.3% |
| Administrative and waste services | 512 | $917 | 0.77 | -16.2% |
| Construction | 380 | $992 | 0.62 | -2.1% |
| Professional and technical services | 250 | $1,298 | 0.31 | +0.0% |
| Arts, entertainment and recreation | 227 | $670 | 1.17 | +3.2% |
| Transportation and warehousing | 221 | $729 | 0.45 | +10.0% |
| Finance and insurance | 217 | $1,709 | 0.45 | -3.1% |
| Manufacturing | 166 | $794 | 0.18 | -11.2% |
| Information | 138 | $1,636 | 0.64 | +0.0% |
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 #
No drought class at this point (USDM covers the United States only)
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 #
low (0.00)
Σ wᵢ·termᵢ / Σ wᵢ = 0.35×0.00 / 0.35
Banks & federal dollars #
$1.0 bn in deposits at 12 offices of 7 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 1,945, highly concentrated. $511.4 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $466.2 m, contracts $26.1 m), $43,460 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Wells Fargo Bank, National Association | $301.7 m · 30.1% share · 2 offices | |
| The Dime Bank | $183.2 m · 18.3% share · 2 offices | |
| Wayne Bank | $182.4 m · 18.2% share · 2 offices | |
| Pike, PA | $511.4 m FY2026 · $43,460/job |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wells Fargo Bank, National Association | $301,700,000 | 30.1% | 2 |
| The Dime Bank | $183,249,000 | 18.3% | 2 |
| Wayne Bank | $182,374,000 | 18.2% | 2 |
| NBT Bank, National Association | $134,434,000 | 13.4% | 2 |
| Citizens Bank, National Association | $108,814,000 | 10.9% | 1 |
| The Honesdale National Bank | $87,030,000 | 8.7% | 2 |
| Woodforest National Bank | $4,560,000 | 0.5% | 1 |
Deposit concentration is 1,945 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 = 30.1² + 18.3² + 18.2² + … (4 more) = 1,945
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 #
That is $43,460 per covered job, against 11,766 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $511.4 m / 11,766 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $43,460
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 | 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 · % | 4.20 | 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, PA: 13 findings, 4 at a watch level and 9 noted
watchPike County, PA's typical asking rent is +10.6% against a year earlier, a watch level here: typical asking rent at least 8 percent above a year ago (arithmetic on Zillow ZORI; 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: rent.yoyPct = 10.55389387394569 >= 8
arithmetic on Zillow ZORI; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level
watchPike County, PA's typical asking rent is -3.3% 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.Show the arithmetic
- test: rent.momPct = -3.273491153699595 <= -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
watchPike County, PA's typical asking rent fell 3.3% from $2,179 in July 2026 to $2,108 in August 2026, on Zillow ZORI.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- -3.3% = (2107.9166666666665 - 2179.2543655392046) / 2179.2543655392046 × 100
- 2107.9166666666665 = Zillow ZORI, 2026-08
- 2179.2543655392046 = Zillow ZORI, 2026-07
watchPike County, PA's covered employment of 11,766 scores 58 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 14 across Pennsylvania counties, a gap of 45 points.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- 45 = |58 across US counties - 14 across Pennsylvania counties|
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
notePike County, PA's covered employment was 0.2% 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
- +0.2 % = 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
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.