83rd pct · 520th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
Home value, one year
+0.8%
as of August 2026
27th pct · 2,210th of 3,063 US counties · median +2.9%
Typical rent
$1,350
as of August 2026
36th pct · 892nd of 1,399 US counties · median $1,496
Jobs
16,224
as of 2026 Q1-01
66th pct · 1,073rd of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
Average weekly wage
$1,200
as of 2026 Q1-01
76th pct · 771st of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
Years of wages per home
6.0
79th pct · 641st of 3,063 US counties · median 4.3
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.
Typical home $376,042 (Aug 2026), +0.8% over one year, +16.6% over five
83rd pct · 520th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
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.
Item
Value
Distance
Bennington County
$376,042 · +0.8% 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.
Principal and interest of $2,058 a month on $376,042 at 7.28%, against an average weekly wage worth $5,200 a month: 39.6% of one job’s pay.
payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $376,042 × 80% = $300,834, r = 7.28%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-01), n = 360 → $2,058/mo principal and interest
wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $1,200 × 52 / 12 = $5,200) = 40% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
years of wages = $376,042 / ($1,200 × 52) = 6.0
price-to-rent = $376,042 / ($1,350 × 12) = 23.2
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.
16,224 jobs at 1,997 employers (2026 Q1); -1.8% jobs and -2.1% average weekly wage over the year
66th pct · 1,073rd of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
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.
Item
Value
Distance
Bennington County
16,224 jobs · $1,200/wk · -1.8% YoY
BLS QCEW, all ownerships, third month of the quarter. A location quotient of 1.00 means this county has the national share of its jobs in that sector; 2.00 means twice it. A withheld row is a BLS disclosure code N: the cell is absent, not zero.
NAICS sector
Jobs
Avg weekly wage
Location quotient
Jobs over the year
Health care and social assistance
2,969
$1,382
1.22
-4.2%
Retail trade
2,473
$865
1.56
-4.2%
Accommodation and food services
1,708
$648
1.17
+4.1%
Manufacturing
1,614
$1,203
1.24
-6.7%
Educational services
1,150
$1,003
3.29
-6.7%
Professional and technical services
607
$2,590
0.54
+6.3%
Construction
580
$1,179
0.68
+0.0%
Administrative and waste services
550
$1,489
0.60
+5.2%
Arts, entertainment and recreation
508
$646
1.90
+12.4%
Other services
392
$703
0.81
-1.8%
Finance and insurance
267
$2,724
0.40
+2.3%
Information
235
$2,272
0.79
+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.
$1.1 bn in deposits at 16 offices of 8 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 2,358, highly concentrated. $305.8 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $274.1 m, grants $29.3 m), $18,850 per covered job
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.
Item
Value
Distance
The Bank of Bennington
$451.8 m · 40.3% share · 4 offices
TD Bank, National Association
$186.6 m · 16.6% share · 2 offices
Beacon Bank and Trust
$168.6 m · 15.0% share · 3 offices
Bennington, VT
$305.8 m FY2026 · $18,850/job
MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS
$267.2 m · top recipient FY2026
FDIC Summary of Deposits, June 2026. These are institution offices, not people: the row is a bank's presence in the county.
Institution
Deposits
Share
Offices
The Bank of Bennington
$451,779,000
40.3%
4
TD Bank, National Association
$186,551,000
16.6%
2
Beacon Bank and Trust
$168,634,000
15.0%
3
Community Bank, National Association
$113,859,000
10.2%
2
Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company
$103,796,000
9.3%
2
Citizens Bank, National Association
$70,887,000
6.3%
1
TrustCo Bank
$18,718,000
1.7%
1
The Brattleboro Savings and Loan Association
$7,157,000
0.6%
1
Deposit concentration is 2,358 across 8 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls highly concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 8 banks with deposits in the county = 40.3² + 16.6² + 15.0² + … (5 more) = 2,358
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.
USAspending place-of-performance obligations for FY2026, by awarding agency.
USAspending, FY2026, place of performance in this county.
Awarding agency
Obligations
Social Security Administration
$250,500,395
Department of Veterans Affairs
$24,257,843
Department of Transportation
$15,862,974
Department of Housing and Urban Development
$4,443,746
National Science Foundation
$3,473,739
Environmental Protection Agency
$2,007,863
Department of Education
$1,783,424
Department of Health and Human Services
$1,573,318
Department of Agriculture
$804,390
Federal Communications Commission
$613,124
Railroad Retirement Board
$503,884
Small Business Administration
$0
That is $18,850 per covered job, against 16,224 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $305.8 m / 16,224 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $18,850
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.
These are United States, single-gauge, single-state and port series. None of them is keyed to this county.
The national indicator set, unfiltered by place.
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
16.50
2026-09-30
-11.7%
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 · %
71.30
2026-10-01
+0.1%
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 · %
4.10
2026-08-01
+0.0%
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.
FIPS 50003, VT: 9 findings, 3 at a watch level and 6 noted
watchFIPS 50003, VT's average weekly wage is -2.1% 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.
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test: jobs.yoy.avgWeeklyWage = -2.1 < 0
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published, nominal dollars; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level
watchFIPS 50003, VT's covered employment is -1.8% 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.
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test: jobs.yoy.emp = -1.8 < 0
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level
watchFIPS 50003, VT's momentum index is -0.28, a watch level here: momentum index in the cooling band (the cooling band of the momentum index computed here, score at or below -0.25; 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.
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test: momentum = -0.2847588919906106 <= -0.25
momentum = Σ wᵢ · clip(changeᵢ / scaleᵢ, −1, 1) / Σ wᵢ over the terms present; weights and scales: home value 1-yr change 0.3 (±10%), rent 1-yr change 0.15 (±10%), jobs over-the-year change 0.3 (±3%), avg weekly wage over-the-year change 0.25 (±6%)
the cooling band of the momentum index computed here, score at or below -0.25; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level
noteFIPS 50003, VT's average weekly wage 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.
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-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
noteFIPS 50003, VT's covered employment was 1.8% lower than the same quarter a year earlier in 2026 Q1, on BLS QCEW's published over-the-year change.
Period 2026 Q1.
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-1.8 % = 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