Pleasants County, WV
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 39.37, -81.16.
Assembled 2026-10-06. Read the brief.
- 23rd pct · 2,358th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 66th pct · 19th of 55 West Virginia counties · median $154,872
- 60th pct · 1,217th of 3,063 US counties · median +2.9%
- 59th pct · 23rd of 55 West Virginia counties · median +3.3%
- US counties: not published this period
- West Virginia counties: not published this period
- 19th pct · 2,582nd of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 18th pct · 45th of 55 West Virginia counties · median 5,555
- 78th pct · 693rd of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 85th pct · 9th of 55 West Virginia counties · median $1,076
- 13th pct · 2,661st of 3,063 US counties · median 4.3
- 42nd pct · 32nd of 55 West Virginia counties · median 2.8
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 $168,439 (Aug 2026), +3.9% over one year, +19.4% over five
- 23rd pct · 2,358th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 66th pct · 19th of 55 West Virginia counties · median $154,872
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Pleasants County, WV | $168,439 · +3.9% 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
- West 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 $922 a month on $168,439 at 7.28%, against an average weekly wage worth $5,300 a month: 17.4% of one job’s pay.
- payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $168,439 × 80% = $134,751, r = 7.28%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-01), n = 360 → $922/mo principal and interest
- wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $1,223 × 52 / 12 = $5,300) = 17% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
- years of wages = $168,439 / ($1,223 × 52) = 2.6
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 #
2,426 jobs at 199 employers (2026 Q1); +8.7% jobs and +6.8% average weekly wage over the year
- 19th pct · 2,582nd of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 18th pct · 45th of 55 West Virginia counties · median 5,555
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Pleasants County, WV | 2,426 jobs · $1,223/wk · +8.7% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manufacturing | 503 | $1,758 | 2.58 | -4.4% |
| Health care and social assistance | 273 | $728 | 0.75 | +1.9% |
| Retail trade | 125 | $654 | 0.53 | +0.8% |
| Administrative and waste services | 119 | $975 | 0.86 | -21.2% |
| Finance and insurance | 85 | $1,522 | 0.86 | +0.0% |
| Transportation and warehousing | 73 | $1,704 | 0.71 | +12.3% |
| Professional and technical services | 33 | $1,397 | 0.20 | +0.0% |
| Agriculture, forestry, fishing | withheld | |||
| Mining, oil and gas | withheld | |||
| Utilities | withheld | |||
| Construction | 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 #
$139.0 m in deposits at 3 offices of 2 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 5,054, highly concentrated. $48.3 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $48.1 m, grants $215,242), $19,904 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| The Pleasants County Bank | $76.7 m · 55.2% share · 2 offices | |
| First Community Bank | $62.3 m · 44.8% share · 1 office | |
| Pleasants, WV | $48.3 m FY2026 · $19,904/job | |
| MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS | $47.4 m · top recipient FY2026 |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Pleasants County Bank | $76,703,000 | 55.2% | 2 |
| First Community Bank | $62,306,000 | 44.8% | 1 |
Deposit concentration is 5,054 across 2 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls highly concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 2 banks with deposits in the county = 55.2² + 44.8² = 5,054
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 | $42,773,506 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $4,557,309 |
| Department of Agriculture | $453,806 |
| Federal Communications Commission | $216,558 |
| Department of Transportation | $203,991 |
| Railroad Retirement Board | $53,394 |
| Department of Commerce | $17,873 |
| Department of the Interior | $11,251 |
That is $19,904 per covered job, against 2,426 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $48.3 m / 2,426 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $19,904
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 | 12.69 | 2026-10-05 | +3.3% |
| 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 | -105,572.00 | 2026-08-01 | -13.7% |
| 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 #
Pleasants County, WV: 9 findings, 1 at a watch level and 8 noted
watchPleasants County, WV's typical home value of $168,439 scores 23 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 67 across West Virginia counties, a gap of 44 points.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- 44 = |23 across US counties - 67 across West Virginia counties|
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
notePleasants County, WV's covered employment was 8.7% 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
- +8.7 % = 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
notePleasants County, WV's average weekly wage was 6.8% 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
- +6.8 % = 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
notePleasants County, WV's typical home value rose 0.7% from $167,187 in July 2026 to $168,439 in August 2026, on Zillow ZHVI.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- +0.7% = (168438.85803530118 - 167186.54598189064) / 167186.54598189064 × 100
- 168438.85803530118 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-08
- 167186.54598189064 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-07
notePleasants County, WV's covered employment of +8.7% ranks 77th of 3,221 US counties, against a median of -0.2%.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- 98 on the 0-to-100 scale across 3221 US counties that published jobs.yoy.emp
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
Read all 9 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.