Albany, GA
Metropolitan statistical area, CBSA 10500 · 31.65, -84.11
8 findings fired for Albany, GA this run, against a typical home value of $167,544 in September 2026 and covered employment of 57,713 in 2026 Q1.
- 25th pct · 295th of 393 US metro areas · median 105,500
Total employment in the BLS OEWS occupational tables for this metro area. It is an occupational survey total, not the QCEW payroll count below.
An estimate: the sum of the member counties BLS publishes, not BLS's own metro row, whose boundaries follow each year's delineation. The arithmetic is printed below.
- 3rd pct · 367th of 379 US metro areas · median $305,707
Zillow Home Value Index, metro file, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- 6th pct · 356th of 382 US metro areas · median $1,504
Zillow Observed Rent Index, metro file.
- 9th pct · 342nd of 379 US metro areas · median 16.9
typical home value / (typical rent × 12); Zillow ZHVI over ZORI, same month.
- 77th pct · 85th of 379 US metro areas · median 2.0%
Zillow's own twelve-month change on the metro row.
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.
Occupation mix #
The 30 largest detailed occupations and all 22 SOC major groups in Albany, GA, from the bundled BLS OEWS release.
| SOC | Occupation | Jobs | Mean annual wage | Location quotient |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41-2031 | Retail Salespersons | 1,870 | $31,060 | 1.28 |
| 35-3023 | Fast Food and Counter Workers | 1,790 | $24,550 | 1.24 |
| 53-7062 | Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand | 1,530 | $37,370 | 1.38 |
| 43-4051 | Customer Service Representatives | 1,480 | $35,880 | 1.52 |
| 41-2011 | Cashiers | 1,430 | $26,620 | 1.23 |
| 53-3032 | Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers | 1,190 | $53,800 | 1.54 |
| 11-1021 | General and Operations Managers | 1,110 | $108,000 | 0.84 |
| 31-1120 | Home Health and Personal Care Aides | 940 | $27,290 | 0.58 |
| 53-7065 | Stockers and Order Fillers | 920 | $34,170 | 0.86 |
| 43-9061 | Office Clerks, General | 910 | $37,910 | 0.98 |
| 35-3031 | Waiters and Waitresses | 900 | $24,890 | 1.06 |
| 31-1131 | Nursing Assistants | 770 | $33,960 | 1.42 |
| 33-9032 | Security Guards | 770 | $32,170 | 1.60 |
| 37-2011 | Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners | 690 | $30,900 | 0.83 |
| 13-1199 | Business Operations Specialists, All Other | 650 | $81,030 | 1.59 |
| 35-1012 | First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers | 590 | $38,140 | 1.29 |
| 41-1011 | First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers | 560 | $44,680 | 1.32 |
| 43-6013 | Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants | 560 | $40,310 | 1.55 |
| 43-6014 | Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive | 550 | $38,480 | 0.85 |
| 43-1011 | First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers | 540 | $59,890 | 1.01 |
| 25-3099 | Teachers and Instructors, All Other | 510 | $59,560 | 12.03 |
| 41-3091 | Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel | 510 | $87,750 | 1.07 |
| 41-4012 | Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products | 500 | $67,060 | 1.08 |
| 49-9071 | Maintenance and Repair Workers, General | 500 | $44,550 | 0.87 |
| 51-9111 | Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders | 490 | not published | 3.41 |
| 25-9045 | Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary | 470 | $26,560 | 0.88 |
| 31-9092 | Medical Assistants | 470 | $38,190 | 1.53 |
| 35-2014 | Cooks, Restaurant | 470 | $30,700 | 0.89 |
| 43-3031 | Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks | 420 | $44,660 | 0.82 |
| 49-3023 | Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics | 420 | $52,210 | 1.59 |
| SOC | Occupation | Jobs | Mean annual wage | Location quotient |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43-0000 | Office and Administrative Support Occupations | 7,080 | $41,840 | 1.06 |
| 41-0000 | Sales and Related Occupations | 5,950 | $43,940 | 1.18 |
| 53-0000 | Transportation and Material Moving Occupations | 5,560 | $41,940 | 1.08 |
| 35-0000 | Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations | 5,220 | $27,980 | 1.02 |
| 29-0000 | Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations | 4,800 | $88,780 | 1.30 |
| 25-0000 | Educational Instruction and Library Occupations | 3,890 | $56,620 | 1.14 |
| 51-0000 | Production Occupations | 3,380 | $48,590 | 1.05 |
| 13-0000 | Business and Financial Operations Occupations | 3,120 | $79,610 | 0.79 |
| 49-0000 | Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations | 3,080 | $57,300 | 1.35 |
| 11-0000 | Management Occupations | 3,070 | $113,050 | 0.73 |
| 31-0000 | Healthcare Support Occupations | 2,660 | $33,630 | 0.90 |
| 33-0000 | Protective Service Occupations | 2,310 | $44,230 | 1.63 |
| 47-0000 | Construction and Extraction Occupations | 2,030 | $50,500 | 0.84 |
| 37-0000 | Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance Occupations | 1,470 | $32,490 | 0.86 |
| 15-0000 | Computer and Mathematical Occupations | 1,090 | $93,710 | 0.55 |
| 39-0000 | Personal Care and Service Occupations | 1,070 | $31,190 | 0.88 |
| 21-0000 | Community and Social Service Occupations | 900 | $51,760 | 0.90 |
| 17-0000 | Architecture and Engineering Occupations | 590 | $83,580 | 0.60 |
| 19-0000 | Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations | 350 | $69,090 | 0.64 |
| 27-0000 | Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations | 320 | $53,520 | 0.42 |
| 23-0000 | Legal Occupations | 320 | $89,650 | 0.65 |
| 45-0000 | Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations | 130 | $39,300 | 0.80 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, metropolitan area tables, committed to this repository rather than fetched. A location quotient above 1 means the occupation is more concentrated here than in the United States as a whole; wages are means, not medians, and BLS suppresses a wage where its sample is too thin.
Housing #
The typical home in the Albany, GA metro was worth $167,544 in September 2026.
25 months to September 2026. Rent: $1,077 in September 2026.
Zillow Home Value Index and Observed Rent Index, metro files, joined by the RegionID recorded in the place manifest. Both are smoothed indices of the middle third of the market, not sale prices.
Employment, rolled up from member counties #
About 57,713 covered jobs across the 4 member counties BLS published.
- jobs = sum of QCEW third-month employment across the 4 of 4 member counties BLS publishes.
- 57,713 = 45,158 + 7,318 + 2,164 + 3,073
| County | FIPS |
|---|---|
| Dougherty County, GA | 13095 |
| Lee County, GA | 13177 |
| Terrell County, GA | 13273 |
| Worth County, GA | 13321 |
The place manifest names 4 member counties for this metro, fewer than the 5 a cohort needs before a percentile means anything, so no within-metro position is offered for its counties. The positions above are against the other 392 metropolitan areas, which is a cohort that does not depend on the county pull.
There are no QCEW metro employment totals here, and that is a property of the data rather than an omission: BLS does publish MSA area codes (C####), but lib/economy's QCEW reader handles only county (SSCCC), state (SS000) and national (US000) rows at aggregation levels 74, 54 and 14, and the /api/economy route regex rejects anything else. So this figure is a sum of member counties, labelled an estimate, with every county it could not count named.
National indicator context #
None of these series is keyed to this metro area. They are national, gauge, single-state or port series, shown as context for the numbers above.
| Indicator | Latest | Unit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi River at Memphis, stage | not published | ft | no data |
| Mississippi River at St. Louis, stage | not published | ft | no data |
| Ohio River at Louisville, stage | 17.95 | ft | ok |
| Missouri River at St. Joseph, stage | not published | ft | no data |
| Colorado River below Hoover Dam, flow (Hoover releases) | 5,170.00 | ft³/s | ok |
| Texas reservoirs, statewide percent full | 72.20 | % | ok |
| Laredo truck crossings, monthly | 258,700.00 | trucks | ok |
| Los Angeles + Long Beach container volume, annual | 10,513,167.00 | TEU | watch |
| Containerships waiting for a berth, all US ports | 7.00 | ships | ok |
| Shanghai to Los Angeles container rate | 7,848.00 | $ per 40 ft box | watch |
| US diesel retail price | not published | $ per gallon | no data |
| WTI crude oil, spot | 101.91 | $ per barrel | watch |
| 30-year fixed mortgage rate | 7.40 | % | watch |
| Housing starts, annual rate | 1,275.00 | thousands of units | ok |
| Building permits, annual rate | 1,403.00 | thousands of units | ok |
| Case-Shiller US home price index | 337.31 | index, Jan 2000 = 100 | ok |
| Unemployment rate | 4.20 | % | ok |
| US goods and services trade balance, monthly | -105,572.00 | $ millions | ok |
| Retail sales excluding food services, monthly | 652,115.00 | $ millions | ok |
lib/indicators has no geographic selection: every registry entry is a United States, gauge, Texas, port, crossing or world series, and no entry is metro-keyed. Reading these as this metro's own readings would be wrong.
What changed #
Albany, GA: 8 findings, 8 noted
noteAlbany, GA's typical asking rent rose 0.5% from $1,072 in August 2026 to $1,077 in September 2026, on Zillow ZORI.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- +0.5% = (1077.439393939394 - 1071.9434410321426) / 1071.9434410321426 × 100
- 1077.439393939394 = Zillow ZORI, 2026-09
- 1071.9434410321426 = Zillow ZORI, 2026-08
noteAlbany, GA's typical home value rose 0.3% from $166,985 in August 2026 to $167,544 in September 2026, on Zillow ZHVI.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- +0.3% = (167543.85077021012 - 166984.73474952398) / 166984.73474952398 × 100
- 167543.85077021012 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-09
- 166984.73474952398 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-08
noteAlbany, GA's typical home value of $167,544 ranks 367th of 379 US metro areas, against a median of $305,707.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- 3 on the 0-to-100 scale across 379 US metro areas that published home.latest
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteAlbany, GA's typical asking rent of $1,077 ranks 356th of 382 US metro areas, against a median of $1,504.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- 7 on the 0-to-100 scale across 382 US metro areas that published rent.latest
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteAlbany, GA's price-to-rent ratio of 13.0 ranks 342nd of 379 US metro areas, against a median of 16.9.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- 10 on the 0-to-100 scale across 379 US metro areas that published priceToRent
- 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
The full Albany, GA brief, with the arithmetic behind every sentence.
Metro briefs are thinner by construction: with no QCEW metro path, their findings come from Zillow's metro home value and rent rows, the county rollup, and nearby crossings and ports.