98th pct · 38th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
97th pct · 2nd of 39 Washington counties · median $433,836
Home value, one year
-2.0%
as of August 2026
10th pct · 2,754th of 3,063 US counties · median +2.9%
2nd pct · 38th of 39 Washington counties · median +0.4%
Typical rent
$2,343
as of August 2026
92nd pct · 106th of 1,399 US counties · median $1,496
92nd pct · 3rd of 29 Washington counties · median $1,767
Jobs
1,421,311
as of 2026 Q1-01
99th pct · 9th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
100th pct · 1st of 39 Washington counties · median 18,771
Average weekly wage
$2,739
as of 2026 Q1-01
99th pct · 13th of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
100th pct · 1st of 39 Washington counties · median $1,237
Years of wages per home
5.9
77th pct · 690th of 3,063 US counties · median 4.3
28th pct · 28th of 39 Washington counties · median 6.7
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 $835,385 (Aug 2026), -2.0% over one year, +7.8% over five
98th pct · 38th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
97th pct · 2nd of 39 Washington counties · median $433,836
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
King County, WA
$835,385 · -2.0% 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 $4,573 a month on $835,385 at 7.28%, against an average weekly wage worth $11,869 a month: 38.5% of one job’s pay.
payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $835,385 × 80% = $668,308, r = 7.28%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-01), n = 360 → $4,573/mo principal and interest
wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $2,739 × 52 / 12 = $11,869) = 39% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
years of wages = $835,385 / ($2,739 × 52) = 5.9
price-to-rent = $835,385 / ($2,343 × 12) = 29.7
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.
1.42 m jobs at 82,524 employers (2026 Q1); -0.4% jobs and +1.9% average weekly wage over the year
99th pct · 9th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
100th pct · 1st of 39 Washington counties · median 18,771
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
King County, WA
1.42 m jobs · $2,739/wk · -0.4% 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
169,705
$1,567
0.79
+2.6%
Professional and technical services
145,906
$3,842
1.49
-0.3%
Information
124,421
$7,304
4.75
-0.5%
Accommodation and food services
105,373
$824
0.83
-0.8%
Retail trade
99,223
$1,233
0.72
-2.7%
Manufacturing
91,251
$2,836
0.80
-0.1%
Management of companies
84,214
$4,891
3.54
+0.5%
Administrative and waste services
69,065
$1,863
0.85
-0.6%
Construction
65,444
$2,034
0.88
-4.1%
Transportation and warehousing
59,476
$2,150
0.99
+0.6%
Wholesale trade
54,195
$2,807
1.00
-5.4%
Other services
45,199
$1,360
1.06
+0.1%
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.
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.
6 USGS reservoir gauges, no capacity figures to weight
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.
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.
Site
Reading
Distance
HOWARD A HANSON RESERVOIR NEAR PALMER, WA
24,290 Acre-ft (USGS, no capacity on file)
24 km
LAKE TAPPS NEAR SUMNER, WA
40,360 Acre-ft (USGS, no capacity on file)
39 km
MUD MOUNTAIN LAKE NEAR BUCKLEY, WA
18.9 Acre-ft (USGS, no capacity on file)
40 km
LAKE CHELAN AT PURPLE POINT AT STEHEKIN, WA
1,097 ft (USGS, no capacity on file)
126 km
WYNOOCHEE LAKE NEAR GRISDALE, WA
18,760 Acre-ft (USGS, no capacity on file)
134 km
LAKE CHELAN AT CHELAN, WA
1,097 ft (USGS, no capacity on file)
138 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.
172 gauges · 0 flooding · 65 with quality panels averaging 91 % · 82 stale
Sites found: 172, 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.
Site
Reading
Distance
USGS-473253122203201
temp 12.5 °C · quality 50 % (2) · STALE
39 km
USGS-473322122390701
temp 15.6 °C · quality 50 % (2) · STALE
62 km
USGS-473317122392101
temp 14.4 °C · quality 50 % (2) · STALE
62 km
USGS-473319122390701
temp 15.9 °C · quality 50 % (2) · STALE
62 km
USGS-473308122393701
temp 16.8 °C · quality 50 % (2) · STALE
63 km
USGS-473333122203701
temp 13.8 °C · quality 50 % (2) · STALE
39 km
USGS-473316122392401
temp 16.4 °C · quality 50 % (2) · STALE
63 km
USGS-473310122393101
temp 15.9 °C · quality 50 % (2) · STALE
63 km
SF SNOQUALMIE RIVER AT NORTH BEND, WA
flow 149.0 ft³/s
3 km
SNOQUALMIE RIVER NEAR SNOQUALMIE, WA
flow 1,010 ft³/s
6 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.
Sites found: 1, 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.
Site
Reading
Distance
USGS-471032122292701
depth 34.8 ft · 2020-01-08
61 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.
$104.2 bn in deposits at 411 offices of 38 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 1,545, moderately concentrated. $-12.8 m federal obligations in FY2026, $-9 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
Bank of America, National Association
$30.8 bn · 29.5% share · 64 offices
JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association
$17.2 bn · 16.5% share · 63 offices
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association
$12.8 bn · 12.3% share · 50 offices
King, WA
$-12.8 m FY2026 · $-9/job
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
Bank of America, National Association
$30,782,869,000
29.5%
64
JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association
$17,214,587,000
16.5%
63
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association
$12,842,914,000
12.3%
50
U.S. Bank National Association
$12,824,273,000
12.3%
43
KeyBank National Association
$6,214,561,000
6.0%
57
WaFd Bank
$5,720,310,000
5.5%
27
Columbia Bank
$3,882,985,000
3.7%
25
East West Bank
$2,455,733,000
2.4%
4
Washington Trust Bank
$2,110,892,000
2.0%
2
Banner Bank
$1,558,292,000
1.5%
14
Deposit concentration is 1,545 across 36 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls moderately concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 36 banks with deposits in the county = 29.5² + 16.5² + 12.3² + … (33 more) = 1,545
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.
unavailableretrieved 2026-10-02USAspending did not return a recipient, agency and NAICS breakdown for this county.
That is -$9 per covered job, against 1,421,311 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $-12.8 m / 1.42 m covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $-9
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.
currentretrieved 2026-10-02The company snapshot is a committed fixture, not a pull.
1 public company files with the SEC from a business address here (Microsoft Corp). These rows are a committed fixture, not a pull: the snapshot has never been refreshed, so every financial fact is null and the list is not a complete census of filers in this county. The county's jobs mix maps to 10 GICS sectors, led by Communication Services.
Public filers whose registered business address with the SEC falls in this county, from a committed snapshot of EDGAR's company_tickers_exchange file. A position is the centroid of the address's ZIP code (Census ZCTA) or, where the snapshot says so, of its city: it is not a building. Legal entities only - no officer, insider or shareholder data is read, and Forms 3, 4 and 5 are excluded everywhere. Sector exposure is the county's BLS QCEW jobs mix bridged to GICS sectors by a convention documented in lib/companies/sectors.ts; a jobs mix is not a portfolio.
Item
Value
Distance
Microsoft Corp
MSFT · Nasdaq · Information Technology · Redmond, WA 98052
This is a committed fixture, not a pull: 1 filers are named and their financial facts are empty until the snapshot is refreshed. An absent company is not evidence that none is headquartered here.
Public filers whose registered business address with the SEC falls in this county, from a committed snapshot of EDGAR's company_tickers_exchange file. A position is the centroid of the address's ZIP code (Census ZCTA) or, where the snapshot says so, of its city: it is not a building. Legal entities only - no officer, insider or shareholder data is read, and Forms 3, 4 and 5 are excluded everywhere. Sector exposure is the county's BLS QCEW jobs mix bridged to GICS sectors by a convention documented in lib/companies/sectors.ts; a jobs mix is not a portfolio.
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.
King County, WA: 19 findings, 5 at a watch level and 14 noted
watchKing County, WA's price-to-rent ratio of 29.7 ranks 23rd of 1,399 US counties, a watch level here: price-to-rent in the top tenth of US counties (position among the counties that published both ZHVI and ZORI this month; not an official level). The previous published period is not in this table, so this is a standing level rather than a change.
typical home value / (typical rent × 12); Zillow ZHVI over ZORI, same month
position among the counties that published both ZHVI and ZORI this month; not an official level
watchKing County, WA's price-to-rent ratio is 29.7, a watch level here: typical home value worth 25 or more years of typical rent (typical home value / (typical rent × 12), Zillow ZHVI over ZORI, same month; 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: priceToRent = 29.716020575381958 >= 25
typical home value / (typical rent × 12); Zillow ZHVI over ZORI, same month
typical home value / (typical rent × 12), Zillow ZHVI over ZORI, same month; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level
watchKing County, WA's typical home value is -2.0% 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.
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test: home.yoyPct = -2.043654523988496 < 0
arithmetic on Zillow ZHVI, county and metro files; not an official level
watchKing County, WA's covered employment is -0.4% 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 = -0.4 < 0
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level
watchKing County, WA's years of wages of 5.9 scores 77 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 29 across Washington counties, a gap of 49 points.
Period 2026-08.
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49 = |77 across US counties - 29 across Washington counties|
typical home value / (average weekly wage × 52); one average covered job, not a household
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level