North Slope Borough, AK
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 69.45, -153.47.
Assembled 2026-10-19. Read the brief.
- 74th pct · 793rd of 3,063 US counties · median $230,451
- 25th pct · 10th of 13 Alaska counties · median $383,220
- 90th pct · 289th of 3,062 US counties · median +2.9%
- 83rd pct · 3rd of 13 Alaska counties · median +5.4%
- US counties: not published this period
- Alaska counties: not published this period
- 62nd pct · 1,216th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 82nd pct · 6th of 30 Alaska counties · median 2,486
- 99th pct · 9th of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 100th pct · 1st of 30 Alaska counties · median $1,272
- 4th pct · 2,933rd of 3,063 US counties · median 4.2
- 0th pct · 13th of 13 Alaska counties · median 5.6
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 $318,810 (Sep 2026), +7.8% over one year, +10.6% over five
- 74th pct · 793rd of 3,063 US counties · median $230,451
- 25th pct · 10th of 13 Alaska counties · median $383,220
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| North Slope Borough, AK | $318,810 · +7.8% 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
- Alaska 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 $1,766 a month on $318,810 at 7.40%, against an average weekly wage worth $13,299 a month: 13.3% of one job’s pay.
- payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $318,810 × 80% = $255,048, r = 7.40%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-15), n = 360 → $1,766/mo principal and interest
- wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $3,069 × 52 / 12 = $13,299) = 13% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
- years of wages = $318,810 / ($3,069 × 52) = 2.0
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 #
13,527 jobs at 224 employers (2026 Q1); +0.4% jobs and +6.7% average weekly wage over the year
- 62nd pct · 1,216th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 82nd pct · 6th of 30 Alaska counties · median 2,486
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| North Slope Borough, AK | 13,527 jobs · $3,069/wk · +0.4% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mining, oil and gas | 6,347 | $4,008 | 131.78 | +1.4% |
| Administrative and waste services | 1,270 | $1,795 | 1.65 | -15.0% |
| Professional and technical services | 386 | $2,961 | 0.41 | +4.3% |
| Transportation and warehousing | 292 | $3,079 | 0.51 | +4.3% |
| Management of companies | 240 | $4,979 | 1.06 | +3.9% |
| Retail trade | 229 | $1,210 | 0.17 | +9.0% |
| Other services | 166 | $2,890 | 0.41 | +0.0% |
| Utilities | withheld | |||
| Construction | withheld | |||
| Manufacturing | withheld | |||
| Wholesale trade | withheld | |||
| Information | 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 #
No reservoir gauges within 150 km (or the camera is above the gauge altitude)
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 #
1 gauges · 0 flooding · 0 with quality panels · 1 stale
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.
| Site | Reading | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| IKPIKPUK R BL FRY C NR ALAKTAK AK | flow 1,050 ft³/s · STALE | 58 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.
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 #
$59.2 m in deposits at 1 offices of 1 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 10,000, highly concentrated. $208.7 m federal obligations in FY2026 (contracts $108.9 m, direct payments $79.0 m), $15,428 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Wells Fargo Bank, National Association | $59.2 m · 100.0% share · 1 office | |
| North Slope, AK | $208.7 m FY2026 · $15,428/job | |
| BRICE CIVIL CONSTRUCTORS, INC. | $77.3 m · top recipient FY2026 |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wells Fargo Bank, National Association | $59,190,000 | 100.0% | 1 |
Deposit concentration is 10,000 across 1 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls highly concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 1 banks with deposits in the county = 100.0² = 10,000
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 |
|---|---|
| Department of Defense | $82,521,350 |
| Federal Communications Commission | $52,679,497 |
| Department of the Interior | $33,858,337 |
| Social Security Administration | $15,966,767 |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | $8,834,729 |
| Department of Education | $8,261,232 |
| Department of Commerce | $2,380,633 |
| Department of Justice | $1,046,353 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | $1,022,183 |
| Department of Agriculture | $885,329 |
| Department of Transportation | $689,533 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $442,358 |
That is $15,428 per covered job, against 13,527 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $208.7 m / 13,527 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $15,428
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 | 17.95 | 2026-10-18 | -2.6% |
| 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 · % | 72.20 | 2026-10-19 | +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 | 7.00 | 2026-10-13 | +133.3% |
| Shanghai to Los Angeles container rate · $ per 40 ft box | 7,848.00 | 2026-09-01 | +14.9% |
| US diesel retail price · $ per gallon | unavailable | not published | |
| WTI crude oil, spot · $ per barrel | 101.91 | 2026-10-14 | +1.0% |
| 30-year fixed mortgage rate · % | 7.40 | 2026-10-15 | +0.0% |
| 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 | 652,115.00 | 2026-09-01 | +0.7% |
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 #
North Slope Borough, AK: 13 findings, 1 at a watch level and 12 noted
watchNorth Slope Borough, AK's typical home value of $318,810 scores 74 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 25 across Alaska counties, a gap of 49 points.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- 49 = |74 across US counties - 25 across Alaska counties|
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteNorth Slope Borough, AK's average weekly wage was 6.7% 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
- +6.7 % = 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
noteNorth Slope Borough, AK's typical home value fell 0.5% from $320,354 in August 2026 to $318,810 in September 2026, on Zillow ZHVI.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- -0.5% = (318810.15554295527 - 320353.82113329665) / 320353.82113329665 × 100
- 318810.15554295527 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-09
- 320353.82113329665 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-08
noteNorth Slope Borough, AK's covered employment was 0.4% 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
- +0.4 % = 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
noteNorth Slope Borough, AK's average weekly wage of $3,069 ranks 1st of 30 Alaska counties, against a median of $1,272.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- 100 on the 0-to-100 scale across 30 Alaska counties that published jobs.avgWeeklyWage
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
Read all 12 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.