Queens County, NY
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 40.65, -73.84.
Assembled 2026-10-19. Read the brief.
- 98th pct · 57th of 3,063 US counties · median $230,451
- 91st pct · 6th of 62 New York counties · median $254,056
- 66th pct · 8th of 22 counties in the New York-Newark-Jersey City metro · median $680,195
- 72nd pct · 848th of 3,062 US counties · median +2.9%
- 27th pct · 45th of 62 New York counties · median +5.6%
- 52nd pct · 11th of 22 counties in the New York-Newark-Jersey City metro · median +4.7%
- 98th pct · 18th of 1,358 US counties · median $1,506
- 91st pct · 5th of 49 New York counties · median $1,521
- 80th pct · 5th of 22 counties in the New York-Newark-Jersey City metro · median $2,825
- 99th pct · 29th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 96th pct · 3rd of 62 New York counties · median 32,139
- 90th pct · 3rd of 22 counties in the New York-Newark-Jersey City metro · median 283,785
- 89th pct · 329th of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 77th pct · 14th of 62 New York counties · median $1,250
- 38th pct · 14th of 22 counties in the New York-Newark-Jersey City metro · median $1,632
- 97th pct · 75th of 3,063 US counties · median 4.2
- 95th pct · 4th of 62 New York counties · median 4.1
- 80th pct · 5th of 22 counties in the New York-Newark-Jersey City metro · median 8.4
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 $745,223 (Sep 2026), +4.8% over one year, +9.2% over five
- 98th pct · 57th of 3,063 US counties · median $230,451
- 91st pct · 6th of 62 New York counties · median $254,056
- 66th pct · 8th of 22 counties in the New York-Newark-Jersey City metro · median $680,195
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Queens County, NY | $745,223 · +4.8% 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 #
Typical rent $3,273/mo (Sep 2026), +3.7% over one year; price-to-rent 19.0
- 98th pct · 18th of 1,358 US counties · median $1,506
- 91st pct · 5th of 49 New York counties · median $1,521
- 80th pct · 5th of 22 counties in the New York-Newark-Jersey City metro · median $2,825
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Queens County, NY | $3,273/mo · +3.7% 1-yr |
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 $4,128 a month on $745,223 at 7.40%, against an average weekly wage worth $6,088 a month: 67.8% of one job’s pay.
- payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $745,223 × 80% = $596,179, r = 7.40%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-15), n = 360 → $4,128/mo principal and interest
- wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $1,405 × 52 / 12 = $6,088) = 68% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
- years of wages = $745,223 / ($1,405 × 52) = 10.2
- price-to-rent = $745,223 / ($3,273 × 12) = 19.0
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 #
746,601 jobs at 57,726 employers (2026 Q1); -0.7% jobs and +3.4% average weekly wage over the year
- 99th pct · 29th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 96th pct · 3rd of 62 New York counties · median 32,139
- 90th pct · 3rd of 22 counties in the New York-Newark-Jersey City metro · median 283,785
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Queens County, NY | 746,601 jobs · $1,405/wk · -0.7% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health care and social assistance | 203,152 | $1,071 | 1.81 | +0.2% |
| Transportation and warehousing | 78,146 | $1,790 | 2.48 | +2.1% |
| Accommodation and food services | 55,565 | $711 | 0.83 | -3.1% |
| Retail trade | 53,390 | $816 | 0.73 | -5.9% |
| Construction | 46,374 | $1,808 | 1.18 | -5.3% |
| Administrative and waste services | 34,385 | $1,137 | 0.81 | -2.2% |
| Other services | 25,501 | $794 | 1.14 | -2.9% |
| Professional and technical services | 19,247 | $1,639 | 0.37 | -1.2% |
| Wholesale trade | 18,221 | $1,665 | 0.64 | -7.1% |
| Educational services | 17,329 | $1,006 | 1.08 | +2.9% |
| Real estate and rental | 15,029 | $1,332 | 1.31 | -4.0% |
| Manufacturing | 13,825 | $1,246 | 0.23 | -7.4% |
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 #
$81.4 bn in deposits at 345 offices of 52 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 1,358, moderately concentrated. $8.8 bn federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $8.4 bn, grants $300.3 m), $11,760 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association | $25.2 bn · 31.0% share · 66 offices | |
| Citibank, National Association | $11.1 bn · 13.6% share · 25 offices | |
| TD Bank, National Association | $7.4 bn · 9.1% share · 32 offices | |
| Queens, NY | $8.8 bn FY2026 · $11,760/job | |
| MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS | $8.2 bn · top recipient FY2026 |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association | $25,206,665,000 | 31.0% | 66 |
| Citibank, National Association | $11,094,000,000 | 13.6% | 25 |
| TD Bank, National Association | $7,425,606,000 | 9.1% | 32 |
| Flagstar Bank, National Association | $5,044,548,000 | 6.2% | 26 |
| Bank of America, National Association | $4,415,893,000 | 5.4% | 24 |
| Ridgewood Savings Bank | $3,551,128,000 | 4.4% | 11 |
| Capital One, National Association | $3,076,718,000 | 3.8% | 14 |
| Webster Bank, National Association | $1,839,642,000 | 2.3% | 10 |
| OceanFirst Bank, National Association | $1,611,286,000 | 2.0% | 11 |
| Maspeth Federal Savings and Loan Association | $1,249,370,000 | 1.5% | 7 |
Deposit concentration is 1,358 across 52 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls moderately concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 52 banks with deposits in the county = 31.0² + 13.6² + 9.1² + … (49 more) = 1,358
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 | $7,814,454,171 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $357,635,565 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | $221,800,722 |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | $131,327,803 |
| Department of Education | $76,679,744 |
| Department of Transportation | $71,896,731 |
| Department of Homeland Security | $28,838,658 |
| Railroad Retirement Board | $25,635,821 |
| Department of Defense | $24,595,747 |
| General Services Administration | $8,280,311 |
| Federal Communications Commission | $5,179,051 |
| Department of Commerce | $4,333,320 |
That is $11,760 per covered job, against 746,601 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $8.8 bn / 746,601 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $11,760
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 #
Queens County, NY: 18 findings, 4 at a watch level and 14 noted
watchQueens County, NY's years of wages of 10.2 ranks 75th of 3,063 US counties, a watch level here: years of wages in the top tenth of US counties (position among the counties that published both a ZHVI value and a QCEW average weekly wage; not an official level). The previous published period is not in this table, so this is a standing level rather than a change.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- test: yearsOfWages percentile = 97.58327890267799 >= 90
- typical home value / (average weekly wage × 52); one average covered job, not a household
position among the counties that published both a ZHVI value and a QCEW average weekly wage; not an official level
watchQueens County, NY's covered employment is -0.7% 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.Show the arithmetic
- test: jobs.yoy.emp = -0.7 < 0
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level
watchQueens County, NY's years of wages is 10.2, a watch level here: typical home value worth 10 or more years of one average covered wage (typical home value / (average weekly wage × 52), one average covered job rather than a household; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level). The previous published period is not in this table, so this is a standing level rather than a change.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- test: yearsOfWages = 10.20015663946342 >= 10
- typical home value / (average weekly wage × 52); one average covered job, not a household
typical home value / (average weekly wage × 52), one average covered job rather than a household; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level
watchQueens County, NY's typical home value of +4.8% scores 72 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 28 across New York counties, a gap of 44 points.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- 44 = |72 across US counties - 28 across New York counties|
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteQueens County, NY's average weekly wage was 3.4% 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
- +3.4 % = 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 12 findings in the full brief
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