Goliad County, TX
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 28.66, -97.43.
Assembled 2026-10-07. Read the brief.
- 64th pct · 1,089th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 74th pct · 63rd of 243 Texas counties · median $215,660
- counties in the Victoria metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 2 counties in the Victoria metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 59th pct · 1,245th of 3,063 US counties · median +2.9%
- 78th pct · 54th of 243 Texas counties · median +0.0%
- counties in the Victoria metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 2 counties in the Victoria metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- US counties: not published this period
- Texas counties: not published this period
- counties in the Victoria metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 2 counties in the Victoria metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 11th pct · 2,861st of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 20th pct · 202nd of 254 Texas counties · median 6,022
- counties in the Victoria metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 2 counties in the Victoria metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 67th pct · 1,051st of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 53rd pct · 118th of 254 Texas counties · median $1,115
- counties in the Victoria metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 2 counties in the Victoria metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 60th pct · 1,220th of 3,063 US counties · median 4.3
- 77th pct · 56th of 243 Texas counties · median 3.6
- counties in the Victoria metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 2 counties in the Victoria 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 $279,940 (Aug 2026), +3.8% over one year, +3.5% over five
- 64th pct · 1,089th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 74th pct · 63rd of 243 Texas counties · median $215,660
- counties in the Victoria metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 2 counties in the Victoria metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Goliad County, TX | $279,940 · +3.8% 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
- Texas counties: not published this period
- counties in the Victoria metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 2 counties in the Victoria metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
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 $1,532 a month on $279,940 at 7.28%, against an average weekly wage worth $4,888 a month: 31.3% of one job’s pay.
- payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $279,940 × 80% = $223,952, r = 7.28%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-01), n = 360 → $1,532/mo principal and interest
- wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $1,128 × 52 / 12 = $4,888) = 31% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
- years of wages = $279,940 / ($1,128 × 52) = 4.8
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 #
1,475 jobs at 153 employers (2026 Q1); +1.7% jobs and -1.7% average weekly wage over the year
- 11th pct · 2,861st of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 20th pct · 202nd of 254 Texas counties · median 6,022
- counties in the Victoria metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 2 counties in the Victoria metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Goliad County, TX | 1,475 jobs · $1,128/wk · +1.7% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retail trade | 159 | $584 | 1.11 | +31.4% |
| Construction | 109 | $1,163 | 1.41 | -47.3% |
| Health care and social assistance | 83 | $748 | 0.37 | +0.0% |
| Wholesale trade | 29 | $1,083 | 0.51 | +3.6% |
| Educational services | 6 | $866 | 0.19 | +0.0% |
| Agriculture, forestry, fishing | withheld | |||
| Mining, oil and gas | withheld | |||
| Utilities | withheld | |||
| Manufacturing | withheld | |||
| Transportation and warehousing | withheld | |||
| Information | withheld | |||
| Finance and insurance | 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 #
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 #
47 % of conservation capacity, weighted over 4 TWDB reservoirs
Sites found: 6, 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 | 27 km |
| Lake Corpus Christi | 84 % full · 256k ac-ft | 82 km |
| Lk Corpus Christi nr Mathis, TX | 214,500 Acre-ft (USGS, no capacity on file) | 82 km |
| Choke Canyon Res nr Three Rivers, TX | 144,900 Acre-ft (USGS, no capacity on file) | 82 km |
| Choke Canyon Reservoir | 22 % full · 663k ac-ft | 82 km |
| Lake Texana | 89 % full · 159k ac-ft | 87 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 #
35 gauges · 0 flooding · 1 with quality panels averaging 80 % · 2 stale
Sites found: 35, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| San Antonio Rv at Goliad, TX | flow 742.0 ft³/s · quality 80 % (5) | 5 km |
| Perdido Ck at FM 622 nr Fannin, TX | flow 0.00 ft³/s | 15 km |
| Fifteenmile Ck nr Weser, TX | flow 1,030 ft³/s | 27 km |
| Coleto Ck nr Victoria, TX | flow 1.44 ft³/s | 30 km |
| Medio Ck nr Beeville, TX | flow 0.00 ft³/s | 30 km |
| Coleto Ck at Arnold Rd Crsg nr Schroeder, TX | flow 0.00 ft³/s | 30 km |
| Medio Ck at SH 202 nr Beeville, TX | stage 113.3 ft | 35 km |
| San Antonio Rv at SH 72 nr Runge, TX | flow 486.0 ft³/s | 36 km |
| Medio Ck nr Normanna, TX | stage 214.2 ft | 38 km |
| San Antonio Rv nr McFaddin, TX | flow 1,970 ft³/s | 40 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 #
3 wells in 1 named aquifer: Coastal lowlands aquifer system
Sites found: 3, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Coastal lowlands aquifer system | depth 7.30 ft · 2008-09-30 | 6 km |
| Coastal lowlands aquifer system | depth 25.1 ft · 2008-09-29 | 6 km |
| ZL-67-57-102 (Kosciusko) | depth 22.0 ft · 2008-09-29 | 72 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 #
high (0.54)
Σ wᵢ·termᵢ / Σ wᵢ = 0.35×0.75 + 0.3×0.53 + 0.2×0.20 / 0.85
Banks & federal dollars #
$166.1 m in deposits at 3 offices of 2 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 5,364, highly concentrated. $81.0 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $51.9 m, grants $28.3 m), $54,926 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Prosperity Bank | $105.5 m · 63.5% share · 2 offices | |
| The Huntington National Bank | $60.6 m · 36.5% share · 1 office | |
| Goliad, TX | $81.0 m FY2026 · $54,926/job | |
| MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS | $49.2 m · top recipient FY2026 |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prosperity Bank | $105,484,000 | 63.5% | 2 |
| The Huntington National Bank | $60,648,000 | 36.5% | 1 |
Deposit concentration is 5,364 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 = 63.5² + 36.5² = 5,364
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 | $43,507,838 |
| Department of Transportation | $28,087,838 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $5,668,273 |
| Department of Agriculture | $2,772,551 |
| Department of Defense | $746,031 |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | $212,368 |
| Federal Communications Commission | $115,008 |
| Railroad Retirement Board | $74,129 |
| Department of the Treasury | -$168,097 |
That is $54,926 per covered job, against 1,475 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $81.0 m / 1,475 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $54,926
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 | 11.67 | 2026-10-06 | -8.0% |
| 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 | 2026-10-07 | +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 #
Goliad County, TX: 5 findings, 1 at a watch level and 4 noted
watchGoliad County, TX's average weekly wage is -1.7% against a year earlier, a watch level here: average weekly wage below the same quarter a year earlier, before inflation (BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published, nominal dollars; 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.avgWeeklyWage = -1.7 < 0
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published, nominal dollars; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level
noteGoliad County, TX's average weekly wage was 1.7% 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
- -1.7 % = 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
noteGoliad County, TX's covered employment was 1.7% 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
- +1.7 % = 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
noteThe next Zillow ZHVI typical home value (monthly) covering Goliad County, TX is due between 2026-10-14 and 2026-10-21, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern.
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- window = 2026-10-14 to 2026-10-21, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern
estimated from the publisher's past release pattern; not an announced date
noteThe next Unemployment rate (BLS Employment Situation, monthly) covering Goliad County, TX is due between 2026-10-30 and 2026-11-13, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern.
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- window = 2026-10-30 to 2026-11-13, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern
estimated from the publisher's past release pattern; not an announced date
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