Gregory County, SD
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 43.18, -99.21.
Assembled 2026-10-06. Read the brief.
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- 12th pct · 2,826th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 46th pct · 36th of 66 South Dakota counties · median 1,825
- 5th pct · 3,034th of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 3rd pct · 64th of 66 South Dakota counties · median $978
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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 #
No Zillow home value index for this area
- US counties: not published this period
- South Dakota counties: not published this period
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 #
No rent index for this area
- US counties: not published this period
- South 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 #
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 #
1,576 jobs at 229 employers (2026 Q1); +0.1% jobs and +4.6% average weekly wage over the year
- 12th pct · 2,826th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 46th pct · 36th of 66 South Dakota counties · median 1,825
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Gregory County, SD | 1,576 jobs · $793/wk · +0.1% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retail trade | 271 | $571 | 1.76 | -7.5% |
| Accommodation and food services | 93 | $279 | 0.66 | -2.1% |
| Wholesale trade | 91 | $904 | 1.51 | -5.2% |
| Professional and technical services | 41 | $651 | 0.38 | -22.6% |
| Administrative and waste services | 39 | $395 | 0.44 | -2.5% |
| Arts, entertainment and recreation | 25 | $383 | 0.96 | -10.7% |
| Agriculture, forestry, fishing | withheld | |||
| Mining, oil and gas | withheld | |||
| Utilities | withheld | |||
| Construction | withheld | |||
| Manufacturing | withheld | |||
| Transportation and warehousing | 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 #
D1 moderate 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 #
8 gauges · 0 flooding · 0 with quality panels · 2 stale
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 |
|---|---|---|
| PLATTE CREEK NEAR PLATTE, SD | flow 0.30 ft³/s | 26 km |
| USGS-424722099200801 | flow 2.44 ft³/s · STALE | 44 km |
| Niobrara River at Mariaville, Nebr. | flow 905.0 ft³/s | 45 km |
| KEYA PAHA RIVER AT WEWELA, SD | flow 46.3 ft³/s | 49 km |
| Willow Creek at Atwood Rd nr Carns, Nebr. | flow 1.57 ft³/s · STALE | 54 km |
| Long Pine Creek near Riverview, Nebr. | flow 149.0 ft³/s | 66 km |
| WHITE RIVER NEAR OACOMA, SD | flow 162.0 ft³/s | 70 km |
| KEYA PAHA RIVER NEAR KEYAPAHA, SD | flow 22.2 ft³/s | 73 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 #
2 wells in 1 named aquifer: High Plains aquifer
Sites found: 2, 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-424837099425201 | depth 80.8 ft · 1999-09-01 | 58 km |
| High Plains aquifer | depth 33.9 ft · 2024-02-20 | 65 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 (0.25)
Σ wᵢ·termᵢ / Σ wᵢ = 0.35×0.25 / 0.35
Banks & federal dollars #
$260.1 m in deposits at 4 offices of 2 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 5,031, highly concentrated. $31.8 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $30.9 m, grants $881,464), $20,171 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| First Fidelity Bank | $140.4 m · 54.0% share · 3 offices | |
| BankWest, Inc. | $119.8 m · 46.0% share · 1 office | |
| Gregory, SD | $31.8 m FY2026 · $20,171/job | |
| MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS | $25.2 m · top recipient FY2026 |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Fidelity Bank | $140,368,000 | 54.0% | 3 |
| BankWest, Inc. | $119,758,000 | 46.0% | 1 |
Deposit concentration is 5,031 across 2 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls highly concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 2 banks with deposits in the county = 54.0² + 46.0² = 5,031
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 | $22,059,432 |
| Department of Agriculture | $5,638,028 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $2,940,598 |
| Department of Education | $592,690 |
| Department of Transportation | $197,048 |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | $157,888 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | $95,816 |
| Railroad Retirement Board | $57,866 |
| Department of the Interior | $44,549 |
| Department of Energy | $4,826 |
That is $20,171 per covered job, against 1,576 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $31.8 m / 1,576 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $20,171
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 | -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.
What changed #
Gregory County, SD: 5 findings, 1 at a watch level and 4 noted
watchGregory County, SD's covered employment of 1,576 scores 12 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 46 across South Dakota counties, a gap of 34 points.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- 34 = |12 across US counties - 46 across South Dakota counties|
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteGregory County, SD's average weekly wage was 4.6% 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
- +4.6 % = 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
noteGregory County, SD's covered employment was 0.1% 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
- +0.1 % = 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
noteGregory County, SD's average weekly wage of $793 ranks 64th of 66 South Dakota counties, against a median of $978.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- 3 on the 0-to-100 scale across 66 South Dakota counties that published jobs.avgWeeklyWage
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteGregory County, SD's average weekly wage of $793 ranks 3,034th of 3,221 US counties, against a median of $1,039.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- 6 on the 0-to-100 scale across 3221 US counties that published jobs.avgWeeklyWage
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
Every finding is produced by a fixed rule table and a fixed sentence for each rule. Nothing here is generated prose.