15th pct · 2,579th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
Home value, one year
+0.3%
as of August 2026
23rd pct · 2,339th of 3,063 US counties · median +2.9%
Typical rent
$796
as of August 2026
1st pct · 1,383rd of 1,399 US counties · median $1,496
Jobs
19,186
as of 2026 Q1-01
70th pct · 955th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
Average weekly wage
$995
as of 2026 Q1-01
39th pct · 1,930th of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
Years of wages per home
2.9
17th pct · 2,530th 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 $149,666 (Aug 2026), +0.3% over one year, +35.0% over five
15th pct · 2,579th 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
Mercer County
$149,666 · +0.3% 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 $819 a month on $149,666 at 7.28%, against an average weekly wage worth $4,312 a month: 19.0% of one job’s pay.
payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $149,666 × 80% = $119,733, r = 7.28%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-01), n = 360 → $819/mo principal and interest
wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $995 × 52 / 12 = $4,312) = 19% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
years of wages = $149,666 / ($995 × 52) = 2.9
price-to-rent = $149,666 / ($796 × 12) = 15.7
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.
19,186 jobs at 1,691 employers (2026 Q1); -2.1% jobs and +3.9% average weekly wage over the year
70th pct · 955th 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
Mercer County
19,186 jobs · $995/wk · -2.1% 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
4,730
$1,171
1.64
-0.7%
Retail trade
2,679
$705
1.43
-6.8%
Accommodation and food services
2,025
$381
1.17
-2.8%
Manufacturing
879
$1,161
0.57
-3.6%
Administrative and waste services
813
$940
0.75
-8.1%
Wholesale trade
640
$1,489
0.87
+1.9%
Professional and technical services
537
$1,149
0.41
-6.3%
Other services
484
$940
0.84
-6.0%
Transportation and warehousing
394
$1,348
0.49
-1.0%
Arts, entertainment and recreation
326
$467
1.03
-4.4%
Finance and insurance
322
$1,366
0.41
-1.8%
Real estate and rental
126
$765
0.43
+5.0%
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.
$1.2 bn in deposits at 17 offices of 7 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 2,437, highly concentrated. $495.1 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $443.6 m, grants $49.4 m), $25,805 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
First Community Bank
$442.0 m · 35.4% share · 6 offices
Truist Bank
$295.9 m · 23.7% share · 1 office
Burke & Herbert Bank & Trust Company
$284.2 m · 22.8% share · 4 offices
Mercer, WV
$495.1 m FY2026 · $25,805/job
MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS
$427.8 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
First Community Bank
$442,036,000
35.4%
6
Truist Bank
$295,878,000
23.7%
1
Burke & Herbert Bank & Trust Company
$284,162,000
22.8%
4
New Peoples Bank, Inc.
$90,495,000
7.2%
2
MCNB Bank and Trust Co.
$76,560,000
6.1%
2
City National Bank of West Virginia
$41,502,000
3.3%
1
First Sentinel Bank
$17,663,000
1.4%
1
Deposit concentration is 2,437 across 7 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls highly concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 7 banks with deposits in the county = 35.4² + 23.7² + 22.8² + … (4 more) = 2,437
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
$347,876,239
Department of Veterans Affairs
$62,928,080
Department of Transportation
$29,287,785
Railroad Retirement Board
$16,624,468
Department of Education
$14,498,340
Department of Health and Human Services
$12,369,203
Department of Housing and Urban Development
$5,022,909
Department of Agriculture
$2,348,594
Department of Defense
$1,746,351
National Science Foundation
$977,866
Department of Energy
$674,225
Department of Justice
$509,249
That is $25,805 per covered job, against 19,186 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $495.1 m / 19,186 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $25,805
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 54055, WV: 8 findings, 1 at a watch level and 7 noted
watchFIPS 54055, WV's covered employment is -2.1% 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 = -2.1 < 0
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level
noteFIPS 54055, WV's average weekly wage was 3.9% higher 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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+3.9 % = 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 54055, WV's covered employment 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 54055, WV's typical home value rose 0.5% from $148,848 in July 2026 to $149,666 in August 2026, on Zillow ZHVI.