Marion County, OR
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 44.90, -122.58.
Assembled 2026-10-19. Read the brief.
- 89th pct · 313th of 3,063 US counties · median $230,451
- 54th pct · 17th of 36 Oregon counties · median $428,005
- counties in the Salem metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 2 counties in the Salem metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 22nd pct · 2,384th of 3,062 US counties · median +2.9%
- 31st pct · 25th of 36 Oregon counties · median +0.4%
- counties in the Salem metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 2 counties in the Salem metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 59th pct · 553rd of 1,358 US counties · median $1,506
- 24th pct · 20th of 26 Oregon counties · median $1,770
- counties in the Salem metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 2 counties in the Salem metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 94th pct · 188th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 94th pct · 3rd of 36 Oregon counties · median 15,683
- counties in the Salem metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 2 counties in the Salem metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 83rd pct · 538th of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 77th pct · 9th of 36 Oregon counties · median $1,074
- counties in the Salem metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 2 counties in the Salem metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 85th pct · 446th of 3,063 US counties · median 4.2
- 45th pct · 20th of 36 Oregon counties · median 6.8
- counties in the Salem metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 2 counties in the Salem metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
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 $439,746 (Sep 2026), +0.2% over one year, +9.8% over five
- 89th pct · 313th of 3,063 US counties · median $230,451
- 54th pct · 17th of 36 Oregon counties · median $428,005
- counties in the Salem metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 2 counties in the Salem metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Marion County, OR | $439,746 · +0.2% 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 $1,615/mo (Sep 2026), -0.1% over one year; price-to-rent 22.7
- 59th pct · 553rd of 1,358 US counties · median $1,506
- 24th pct · 20th of 26 Oregon counties · median $1,770
- counties in the Salem metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 2 counties in the Salem metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Marion County, OR | $1,615/mo · -0.1% 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 $2,436 a month on $439,746 at 7.40%, against an average weekly wage worth $5,542 a month: 43.9% of one job’s pay.
- payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $439,746 × 80% = $351,797, r = 7.40%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-15), n = 360 → $2,436/mo principal and interest
- wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $1,279 × 52 / 12 = $5,542) = 44% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
- years of wages = $439,746 / ($1,279 × 52) = 6.6
- price-to-rent = $439,746 / ($1,615 × 12) = 22.7
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 #
174,514 jobs at 11,741 employers (2026 Q1); +1.2% jobs and +3.3% average weekly wage over the year
- 94th pct · 188th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 94th pct · 3rd of 36 Oregon counties · median 15,683
- counties in the Salem metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 2 counties in the Salem metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Marion County, OR | 174,514 jobs · $1,279/wk · +1.2% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health care and social assistance | 30,372 | $1,305 | 1.16 | +2.3% |
| Retail trade | 15,946 | $772 | 0.94 | -2.8% |
| Accommodation and food services | 11,828 | $519 | 0.75 | -3.2% |
| Construction | 10,492 | $1,454 | 1.15 | -5.8% |
| Administrative and waste services | 10,491 | $798 | 1.06 | +6.8% |
| Manufacturing | 9,878 | $1,214 | 0.70 | +1.2% |
| Transportation and warehousing | 9,184 | $1,018 | 1.25 | +28.8% |
| Agriculture, forestry, fishing | 8,421 | $807 | 6.68 | +0.4% |
| Professional and technical services | 5,826 | $1,794 | 0.48 | +2.3% |
| Finance and insurance | 3,799 | $2,684 | 0.53 | -1.5% |
| Educational services | 2,846 | $894 | 0.76 | +1.6% |
| Real estate and rental | 2,089 | $1,264 | 0.78 | +2.7% |
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 #
D1 moderate drought
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 #
moderate (0.25)
Σ wᵢ·termᵢ / Σ wᵢ = 0.35×0.25 / 0.35
Banks & federal dollars #
$6.4 bn in deposits at 50 offices of 13 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 1,418, moderately concentrated. $2.9 bn federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $1.9 bn, grants $907.8 m), $16,360 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. Bank National Association | $1.3 bn · 19.7% share · 9 offices | |
| Columbia Bank | $1.2 bn · 18.5% share · 10 offices | |
| Wells Fargo Bank, National Association | $1.1 bn · 16.5% share · 5 offices | |
| Marion, OR | $2.9 bn FY2026 · $16,360/job | |
| MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS | $1.8 bn · top recipient FY2026 |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. Bank National Association | $1,262,381,000 | 19.7% | 9 |
| Columbia Bank | $1,184,933,000 | 18.5% | 10 |
| Wells Fargo Bank, National Association | $1,059,080,000 | 16.5% | 5 |
| JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association | $968,545,000 | 15.1% | 7 |
| Pioneer Trust Bank, National Association | $602,243,000 | 9.4% | 2 |
| Bank of America, National Association | $386,560,000 | 6.0% | 2 |
| KeyBank National Association | $357,503,000 | 5.6% | 6 |
| Willamette Valley Bank | $335,187,000 | 5.2% | 3 |
| WaFd Bank | $63,249,000 | 1.0% | 1 |
| First Interstate Bank | $58,675,000 | 0.9% | 1 |
Deposit concentration is 1,418 across 13 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls moderately concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 13 banks with deposits in the county = 19.7² + 18.5² + 16.5² + … (10 more) = 1,418
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 | $1,596,925,185 |
| Department of Education | $521,770,317 |
| Department of Homeland Security | $238,475,096 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $182,618,947 |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | $93,200,650 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | $81,535,228 |
| Department of Transportation | $37,297,935 |
| Department of Defense | $28,453,145 |
| Department of Agriculture | $26,703,942 |
| Department of Commerce | $17,264,858 |
| Department of the Interior | $10,409,055 |
| Railroad Retirement Board | $5,946,433 |
That is $16,360 per covered job, against 174,514 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $2.9 bn / 174,514 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $16,360
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 #
Marion County, OR: 10 findings, 3 at a watch level and 7 noted
watchMarion County, OR's years of wages of 6.6 scores 85 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 46 across Oregon counties, a gap of 40 points.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- 40 = |85 across US counties - 46 across Oregon counties|
- typical home value / (average weekly wage × 52); one average covered job, not a household
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
watchMarion County, OR's typical home value of $439,746 scores 90 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 54 across Oregon counties, a gap of 36 points.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- 36 = |90 across US counties - 54 across Oregon counties|
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
watchMarion County, OR's typical asking rent of $1,615 scores 59 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 24 across Oregon counties, a gap of 35 points.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- 35 = |59 across US counties - 24 across Oregon counties|
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteMarion County, OR's average weekly wage was 3.3% 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
- +3.3 % = 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
noteMarion County, OR's covered employment was 1.2% 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
- +1.2 % = 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 10 findings in the full brief
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