Capitol Planning Region, CT

Home values #

No Zillow home value index for this area

• US counties: not published this period
• Connecticut counties: not published this period
• counties in the Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 2 counties in the Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.

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 #

No rent index for this area

• US counties: not published this period
• Connecticut counties: not published this period
• counties in the Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 2 counties in the Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.

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 #

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 #

526,794 jobs at 37,310 employers (2026 Q1); -0.4% jobs and +4.6% average weekly wage over the year

• 98th pct · 51st of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
• 100th pct · 1st of 9 Connecticut counties · median 127,451
• counties in the Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 2 counties in the Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.

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 #

5 USGS reservoir gauges, no capacity figures to weight

Sites found: 5, 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 #

154 gauges · 0 flooding · 50 with quality panels averaging 93 % · 40 stale

Sites found: 154, 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 #

28 wells in 0 named aquifers:

Sites found: 28, 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 (0.03)

Σ wᵢ·termᵢ / Σ wᵢ = 0.35×0.00 + 0.2×0.07 / 0.55

Banks & federal dollars #

$52.7 bn in deposits at 237 offices of 25 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 3,041, highly concentrated. USAspending has no place-of-performance row for this county

Deposit concentration is 3,041 across 23 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls highly concentrated.

HHI = Σ (share %)² over 23 banks with deposits in the county = 52.2² + 11.4² + 10.0² + … (20 more) = 3,041

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.

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.

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 #

Capitol Planning Region, CT: 9 findings, 3 at a watch level and 6 noted

1. watchCapitol Planning Region, CT'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

2. watchCapitol Planning Region, CT's covered employment of -0.4% scores 47 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 81 across Connecticut counties, a gap of 34 points.

   Period 2026 Q1.
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   • 34 = |47 across US counties - 81 across Connecticut counties|

   position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level

3. watchCapitol Planning Region, CT's momentum index of 0.28 scores 56 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 88 across Connecticut counties, a gap of 31 points.

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   • 31 = |56 across US counties - 88 across Connecticut counties|
   • momentum = Σ wᵢ · clip(changeᵢ / scaleᵢ, −1, 1) / Σ wᵢ over the terms present; weights and scales: home value 1-yr change 0.3 (±10%), rent 1-yr change 0.15 (±10%), jobs over-the-year change 0.3 (±3%), avg weekly wage over-the-year change 0.25 (±6%)

   position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level

4. noteCapitol Planning Region, CT's average weekly wage was 4.6% 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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   • +4.6 % = 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

5. noteCapitol Planning Region, CT's covered employment was 0.4% 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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   • -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

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.