Aransas County, TX
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 28.12, -96.97.
Assembled 2026-10-06. Read the brief.
- 69th pct · 945th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 79th pct · 51st of 243 Texas counties · median $215,660
- counties in the Corpus Christi metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 3 counties in the Corpus Christi metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 4th pct · 2,934th of 3,063 US counties · median +2.9%
- 7th pct · 224th of 243 Texas counties · median +0.0%
- counties in the Corpus Christi metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 3 counties in the Corpus Christi metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 20th pct · 1,112th of 1,399 US counties · median $1,496
- 11th pct · 94th of 106 Texas counties · median $1,483
- counties in the Corpus Christi metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 3 counties in the Corpus Christi metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 42nd pct · 1,843rd of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 50th pct · 125th of 254 Texas counties · median 6,022
- counties in the Corpus Christi metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 3 counties in the Corpus Christi metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 22nd pct · 2,491st of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 13th pct · 220th of 254 Texas counties · median $1,115
- counties in the Corpus Christi metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 3 counties in the Corpus Christi metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 81st pct · 565th of 3,063 US counties · median 4.3
- 89th pct · 26th of 243 Texas counties · median 3.6
- counties in the Corpus Christi metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 3 counties in the Corpus Christi metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
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 $298,270 (Aug 2026), -5.1% over one year, +4.3% over five
- 69th pct · 945th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 79th pct · 51st of 243 Texas counties · median $215,660
- counties in the Corpus Christi metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 3 counties in the Corpus Christi metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Aransas County, TX | $298,270 · -5.1% 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 $1,180/mo (Aug 2026), -2.3% over one year; price-to-rent 21.1
- 20th pct · 1,112th of 1,399 US counties · median $1,496
- 11th pct · 94th of 106 Texas counties · median $1,483
- counties in the Corpus Christi metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 3 counties in the Corpus Christi metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Aransas County, TX | $1,180/mo · -2.3% 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 $1,633 a month on $298,270 at 7.28%, against an average weekly wage worth $3,978 a month: 41.0% of one job’s pay.
- payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $298,270 × 80% = $238,616, r = 7.28%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-01), n = 360 → $1,633/mo principal and interest
- wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $918 × 52 / 12 = $3,978) = 41% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
- years of wages = $298,270 / ($918 × 52) = 6.2
- price-to-rent = $298,270 / ($1,180 × 12) = 21.1
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 #
6,174 jobs at 688 employers (2026 Q1); -0.7% jobs and +5.8% average weekly wage over the year
- 42nd pct · 1,843rd of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 50th pct · 125th of 254 Texas counties · median 6,022
- counties in the Corpus Christi metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 3 counties in the Corpus Christi metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Aransas County, TX | 6,174 jobs · $918/wk · -0.7% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accommodation and food services | 1,334 | $473 | 2.40 | +2.3% |
| Retail trade | 985 | $718 | 1.64 | -1.8% |
| Construction | 401 | $1,171 | 1.24 | +9.3% |
| Other services | 235 | $856 | 1.27 | -0.8% |
| Administrative and waste services | 229 | $749 | 0.65 | -3.0% |
| Finance and insurance | 203 | $1,942 | 0.81 | +2.5% |
| Transportation and warehousing | 179 | $1,682 | 0.69 | +0.0% |
| Real estate and rental | 173 | $890 | 1.83 | +32.1% |
| Arts, entertainment and recreation | 145 | $644 | 1.43 | +2.8% |
| Mining, oil and gas | 78 | $1,825 | 3.55 | -34.5% |
| Agriculture, forestry, fishing | withheld | |||
| Utilities | 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 #
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: 4, 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.
| Site | Reading | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Coleto Creek Reservoir | 75 % full · 31k ac-ft | 70 km |
| Lake Corpus Christi | 84 % full · 256k ac-ft | 89 km |
| Lake Texana | 89 % full · 159k ac-ft | 94 km |
| Choke Canyon Reservoir | 22 % full · 663k ac-ft | 131 km |
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 (0.24)
Σ wᵢ·termᵢ / Σ wᵢ = 0.35×0.00 + 0.3×0.53 / 0.65
Banks & federal dollars #
$473.8 m in deposits at 6 offices of 5 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 3,517, highly concentrated. $234.9 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $233.3 m, grants $1.2 m), $38,050 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Prosperity Bank | $245.8 m · 51.9% share · 2 offices | |
| Wells Fargo Bank, National Association | $119.4 m · 25.2% share · 1 office | |
| First Community Bank | $49.3 m · 10.4% share · 1 office | |
| Aransas, TX | $234.9 m FY2026 · $38,050/job | |
| MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS | $230.2 m · top recipient FY2026 |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prosperity Bank | $245,766,000 | 51.9% | 2 |
| Wells Fargo Bank, National Association | $119,359,000 | 25.2% | 1 |
| First Community Bank | $49,322,000 | 10.4% | 1 |
| International Bank of Commerce | $36,545,000 | 7.7% | 1 |
| Charter Bank | $22,774,000 | 4.8% | 1 |
Deposit concentration is 3,517 across 5 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls highly concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 5 banks with deposits in the county = 51.9² + 25.2² + 10.4² + … (2 more) = 3,517
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 | $198,041,191 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $31,394,107 |
| Department of Agriculture | $3,075,428 |
| Railroad Retirement Board | $813,722 |
| Department of Justice | $500,000 |
| Department of Transportation | $449,113 |
| Federal Communications Commission | $332,350 |
| Department of Defense | $316,688 |
| Department of the Interior | $0 |
| Small Business Administration | $0 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | $0 |
That is $38,050 per covered job, against 6,174 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $234.9 m / 6,174 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $38,050
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 #
Aransas County, TX: 9 findings, 1 at an alert level, 2 at a watch level and 6 noted
alertAransas County, TX's typical home value is -5.1% 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 = -5.069589384873446 <= -5
arithmetic on Zillow ZHVI, county and metro files; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level
watchAransas County, TX's typical home value is -5.1% 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 = -5.069589384873446 < 0
arithmetic on Zillow ZHVI, county and metro files; not an official level
watchAransas County, TX's covered employment is -0.7% 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 = -0.7 < 0
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level
noteAransas County, TX's average weekly wage was 5.8% 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
- +5.8 % = 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
noteAransas County, TX's covered employment was 0.7% 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
- -0.7 % = 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 9 findings in the full brief
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