Douglas County, WA: 10 findings, 4 at a watch level and 6 noted
10 findings fired for Douglas County, WA this run, against a typical home value of $495,797 in August 2026 and covered employment of 11,991 in 2026 Q1.
This is the water & ecology lens: Biologists, hydrologists, water utilities, conservation It keeps the findings whose subject matches that interest and drops the rest, so it is a subset of the full brief and never a different set of numbers. The full brief is the canonical version of this page.
10 findings #
watchDouglas County, WA's years of wages of 8.7 ranks 159th of 3,063 US counties, a watch level here: years of wages in the top tenth of US counties (position among the counties that published both a ZHVI value and a QCEW average weekly wage; 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: yearsOfWages percentile = 94.83997387328543 >= 90
- typical home value / (average weekly wage × 52); one average covered job, not a household
position among the counties that published both a ZHVI value and a QCEW average weekly wage; not an official level
watchDouglas County, WA's price-to-rent ratio of 19.0 scores 66 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 11 across Washington counties, a gap of 56 points.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- 56 = |66 across US counties - 11 across Washington counties|
- typical home value / (typical rent × 12); Zillow ZHVI over ZORI, same month
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
watchDouglas County, WA's typical home value of +3.3% scores 53 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 97 across Washington counties, a gap of 44 points.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- 44 = |53 across US counties - 97 across Washington counties|
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
watchDouglas County, WA's typical home value of $495,797 scores 93 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 63 across Washington counties, a gap of 30 points.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- 30 = |93 across US counties - 63 across Washington counties|
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteDouglas County, WA's typical asking rent fell 0.9% from $2,193 in July 2026 to $2,174 in August 2026, on Zillow ZORI.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- -0.9% = (2174.34126984127 - 2192.9949701987402) / 2192.9949701987402 × 100
- 2174.34126984127 = Zillow ZORI, 2026-08
- 2192.9949701987402 = Zillow ZORI, 2026-07
noteDouglas County, WA's typical home value of +3.3% ranks 2nd of 39 Washington counties, against a median of +0.4%.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- 97 on the 0-to-100 scale across 39 Washington counties that published home.yoyPct
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteDouglas County, WA's typical home value of $495,797 ranks 207th of 3,063 US counties, against a median of $234,566.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- 93 on the 0-to-100 scale across 3063 US counties that published home.latest
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteDouglas County, WA's momentum index of 0.40 ranks 4th of 39 Washington counties, against a median of 0.14.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- 92 on the 0-to-100 scale across 39 Washington counties that published momentum
- 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%)
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteThe next Zillow ZHVI typical home value (monthly) covering Douglas County, WA is due between 2026-10-14 and 2026-10-21, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern.
Show the arithmetic
- 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 Zillow ZORI typical rent (monthly) covering Douglas County, WA is due between 2026-10-14 and 2026-10-21, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern.
Show the arithmetic
- 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
A lens narrows which numbers are shown, not which holes are admitted to: a withheld figure or a pending release survives every lens, because a gap is a fact about the place rather than about one reader's subject.
Subscribe to this lens #
The same narrowed findings as a feed.