Dickenson County, VA
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 37.14, -82.35.
Assembled 2026-10-06. Read the brief.
- 5th pct · 2,882nd of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 3rd pct · 129th of 133 Virginia counties · median $307,999
- 99th pct · 19th of 3,063 US counties · median +2.9%
- 100th pct · 1st of 133 Virginia counties · median +2.9%
- US counties: not published this period
- Virginia counties: not published this period
- 27th pct · 2,346th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 19th pct · 107th of 133 Virginia counties · median 9,944
- 49th pct · 1,637th of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 46th pct · 71st of 133 Virginia counties · median $1,048
- 5th pct · 2,883rd of 3,063 US counties · median 4.3
- 1st pct · 131st of 133 Virginia counties · median 5.4
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 $117,295 (Aug 2026), +14.8% over one year, +37.2% over five
- 5th pct · 2,882nd of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 3rd pct · 129th of 133 Virginia counties · median $307,999
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Dickenson County, VA | $117,295 · +14.8% 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
- Virginia 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 #
Principal and interest of $642 a month on $117,295 at 7.28%, against an average weekly wage worth $4,485 a month: 14.3% of one job’s pay.
- payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $117,295 × 80% = $93,836, r = 7.28%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-01), n = 360 → $642/mo principal and interest
- wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $1,035 × 52 / 12 = $4,485) = 14% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
- years of wages = $117,295 / ($1,035 × 52) = 2.2
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.
Jobs & wages #
3,340 jobs at 317 employers (2026 Q1); +1.0% jobs and +2.8% average weekly wage over the year
- 27th pct · 2,346th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 19th pct · 107th of 133 Virginia counties · median 9,944
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Dickenson County, VA | 3,340 jobs · $1,035/wk · +1.0% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health care and social assistance | 392 | $693 | 0.78 | +8.9% |
| Retail trade | 350 | $554 | 1.08 | -7.2% |
| Construction | 279 | $1,254 | 1.59 | +0.0% |
| Professional and technical services | 57 | $921 | 0.25 | +0.0% |
| Other services | 55 | $686 | 0.55 | +12.2% |
| Finance and insurance | 42 | $1,079 | 0.31 | -8.7% |
| Manufacturing | 38 | $896 | 0.14 | +0.0% |
| Information | 17 | $1,196 | 0.28 | +0.0% |
| Unclassified | 1 | $4,191 | 0.14 | +0.0% |
| Agriculture, forestry, fishing | withheld | |||
| Mining, oil and gas | withheld | |||
| Wholesale trade | 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: 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 #
$209.4 m in deposits at 6 offices of 4 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 3,117, highly concentrated. $152.7 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $116.3 m, contracts $34.2 m), $45,730 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| New Peoples Bank, Inc. | $87.4 m · 41.8% share · 2 offices | |
| Truist Bank | $63.0 m · 30.1% share · 2 offices | |
| Farmers and Miners Bank | $41.9 m · 20.0% share · 1 office | |
| Dickenson, VA | $152.7 m FY2026 · $45,730/job | |
| MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS | $116.1 m · top recipient FY2026 |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Peoples Bank, Inc. | $87,442,000 | 41.8% | 2 |
| Truist Bank | $63,049,000 | 30.1% | 2 |
| Farmers and Miners Bank | $41,942,000 | 20.0% | 1 |
| First Community Bank | $16,965,000 | 8.1% | 1 |
Deposit concentration is 3,117 across 4 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls highly concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 4 banks with deposits in the county = 41.8² + 30.1² + 20.0² + … (1 more) = 3,117
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 | $106,708,461 |
| Department of Agriculture | $34,334,209 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $8,778,407 |
| Department of Transportation | $1,800,632 |
| Railroad Retirement Board | $468,496 |
| Department of Defense | $425,044 |
| Department of Justice | $196,206 |
| Federal Communications Commission | $142,527 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | -$115,061 |
That is $45,730 per covered job, against 3,340 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $152.7 m / 3,340 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $45,730
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 | 12.28 | 2026-10-04 | -0.1% |
| 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 #
Dickenson County, VA: 11 findings, 11 noted
noteDickenson County, VA's average weekly wage was 2.8% 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
- +2.8 % = 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
noteDickenson County, VA's covered employment was 1.0% 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 % = 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
noteDickenson County, VA's typical home value rose 1.0% from $116,173 in July 2026 to $117,295 in August 2026, on Zillow ZHVI.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- +1.0% = (117294.73433483706 - 116173.18449259286) / 116173.18449259286 × 100
- 117294.73433483706 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-08
- 116173.18449259286 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-07
noteDickenson County, VA's typical home value of +14.8% ranks 1st of 133 Virginia counties, against a median of +2.9%.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- 100 on the 0-to-100 scale across 133 Virginia counties that published home.yoyPct
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteDickenson County, VA's typical home value of +14.8% ranks 19th of 3,063 US counties, against a median of +2.9%.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- 99 on the 0-to-100 scale across 3063 US counties that published home.yoyPct
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
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.