Weakley County, TN
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 36.30, -88.72.
Assembled 2026-10-06. Read the brief.
- 34th pct · 2,014th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 18th pct · 78th of 95 Tennessee counties · median $259,021
- 89th pct · 320th of 3,063 US counties · median +2.9%
- 91st pct · 9th of 95 Tennessee counties · median +3.2%
- 6th pct · 1,313th of 1,399 US counties · median $1,496
- 2nd pct · 45th of 46 Tennessee counties · median $1,490
- 56th pct · 1,412th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 56th pct · 42nd of 95 Tennessee counties · median 8,576
- 14th pct · 2,737th of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 12th pct · 83rd of 95 Tennessee counties · median $1,030
- 49th pct · 1,552nd of 3,063 US counties · median 4.3
- 29th pct · 67th of 95 Tennessee counties · median 5.0
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 $193,491 (Aug 2026), +7.6% over one year, +42.8% over five
- 34th pct · 2,014th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 18th pct · 78th of 95 Tennessee counties · median $259,021
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Weakley County, TN | $193,491 · +7.6% 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.
Rents #
Typical rent $956/mo (Aug 2026), n/a over one year; price-to-rent 16.9
- 6th pct · 1,313th of 1,399 US counties · median $1,496
- 2nd pct · 45th of 46 Tennessee counties · median $1,490
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Weakley County, TN | $956/mo · n/a 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 $1,059 a month on $193,491 at 7.28%, against an average weekly wage worth $3,787 a month: 28.0% of one job’s pay.
- payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $193,491 × 80% = $154,793, r = 7.28%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-01), n = 360 → $1,059/mo principal and interest
- wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $874 × 52 / 12 = $3,787) = 28% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
- years of wages = $193,491 / ($874 × 52) = 4.3
- price-to-rent = $193,491 / ($956 × 12) = 16.9
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 #
10,614 jobs at 631 employers (2026 Q1); -2.1% jobs and +1.6% average weekly wage over the year
- 56th pct · 1,412th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 56th pct · 42nd of 95 Tennessee counties · median 8,576
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Weakley County, TN | 10,614 jobs · $874/wk · -2.1% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manufacturing | 1,957 | $982 | 2.29 | -4.8% |
| Retail trade | 1,129 | $661 | 1.09 | -2.6% |
| Accommodation and food services | 1,012 | $324 | 1.06 | -0.5% |
| Administrative and waste services | 579 | $592 | 0.96 | +16.0% |
| Transportation and warehousing | 271 | $1,176 | 0.61 | -13.1% |
| Other services | 235 | $705 | 0.74 | -0.8% |
| Wholesale trade | 226 | $964 | 0.56 | -6.6% |
| Construction | 224 | $786 | 0.40 | +11.4% |
| Finance and insurance | 215 | $1,274 | 0.50 | -4.9% |
| Information | 104 | $1,035 | 0.53 | -8.0% |
| Mining, oil and gas | 102 | $1,423 | 2.70 | -6.4% |
| Real estate and rental | 55 | $763 | 0.34 | -8.3% |
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 #
D0 abnormally dry
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 #
$893.7 m in deposits at 12 offices of 8 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 1,678, moderately concentrated. $218.3 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $218.9 m, loans $1.1 m), $20,567 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Simmons Bank | $250.2 m · 28.0% share · 3 offices | |
| Security Bank and Trust Company | $170.3 m · 19.1% share · 1 office | |
| Greenfield Banking Company | $135.4 m · 15.1% share · 1 office | |
| Weakley, TN | $218.3 m FY2026 · $20,567/job | |
| MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS | $186.7 m · top recipient FY2026 |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simmons Bank | $250,225,000 | 28.0% | 3 |
| Security Bank and Trust Company | $170,264,000 | 19.1% | 1 |
| Greenfield Banking Company | $135,367,000 | 15.1% | 1 |
| First Community Bank of the Heartland, Inc. | $91,727,000 | 10.3% | 3 |
| Bank of Gleason | $81,477,000 | 9.1% | 1 |
| The Park National Bank | $59,650,000 | 6.7% | 1 |
| The Huntington National Bank | $55,364,000 | 6.2% | 1 |
| Regions Bank | $49,654,000 | 5.6% | 1 |
Deposit concentration is 1,678 across 8 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls moderately concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 8 banks with deposits in the county = 28.0² + 19.1² + 15.1² + … (5 more) = 1,678
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 | $166,144,860 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $19,574,145 |
| Department of Education | $17,837,326 |
| Department of Agriculture | $11,589,863 |
| Railroad Retirement Board | $1,028,358 |
| Federal Communications Commission | $528,384 |
| Department of Transportation | $500,551 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | $489,089 |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | $460,949 |
| Delta Regional Authority | $92,552 |
| National Science Foundation | $85,511 |
| Small Business Administration | -$28,159 |
That is $20,567 per covered job, against 10,614 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $218.3 m / 10,614 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $20,567
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 #
Weakley County, TN: 11 findings, 2 at a watch level and 9 noted
watchWeakley County, TN's covered employment is -2.1% 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 = -2.1 < 0
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level
watchWeakley County, TN's typical asking rent is -1.5% 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 = -1.4748331700295891 <= -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
noteWeakley County, TN's covered employment was 2.1% lower 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
- -2.1 % = 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
noteWeakley County, TN's average weekly wage was 1.6% 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
- +1.6 % = 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
noteWeakley County, TN's typical asking rent fell 1.5% from $970 in July 2026 to $956 in August 2026, on Zillow ZORI.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- -1.5% = (955.5555555555555 - 969.8593631458685) / 969.8593631458685 × 100
- 955.5555555555555 = Zillow ZORI, 2026-08
- 969.8593631458685 = Zillow ZORI, 2026-07
Read all 11 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.