Uintah County, UT
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 40.13, -109.52.
Assembled 2026-10-19. Read the brief.
- 80th pct · 591st of 3,063 US counties · median $230,451
- 25th pct · 21st of 28 Utah counties · median $445,634
- 68th pct · 964th of 3,062 US counties · median +2.9%
- 77th pct · 7th of 28 Utah counties · median +2.5%
- 57th pct · 580th of 1,358 US counties · median $1,506
- 35th pct · 10th of 15 Utah counties · median $1,741
- 64th pct · 1,147th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 64th pct · 11th of 29 Utah counties · median 8,951
- 71st pct · 900th of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 67th pct · 10th of 29 Utah counties · median $1,042
- 78th pct · 663rd of 3,063 US counties · median 4.2
- 14th pct · 24th of 28 Utah counties · median 8.1
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 $356,398 (Sep 2026), +4.4% over one year, +44.7% over five
- 80th pct · 591st of 3,063 US counties · median $230,451
- 25th pct · 21st of 28 Utah counties · median $445,634
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Uintah County, UT | $356,398 · +4.4% 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 $1,594/mo (Sep 2026), +4.6% over one year; price-to-rent 18.6
- 57th pct · 580th of 1,358 US counties · median $1,506
- 35th pct · 10th of 15 Utah counties · median $1,741
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Uintah County, UT | $1,594/mo · +4.6% 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 $1,974 a month on $356,398 at 7.40%, against an average weekly wage worth $5,048 a month: 39.1% of one job’s pay.
- payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $356,398 × 80% = $285,118, r = 7.40%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-15), n = 360 → $1,974/mo principal and interest
- wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $1,165 × 52 / 12 = $5,048) = 39% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
- years of wages = $356,398 / ($1,165 × 52) = 5.9
- price-to-rent = $356,398 / ($1,594 × 12) = 18.6
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 #
14,850 jobs at 1,349 employers (2026 Q1); -4.8% jobs and +2.7% average weekly wage over the year
- 64th pct · 1,147th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 64th pct · 11th of 29 Utah counties · median 8,951
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Uintah County, UT | 14,850 jobs · $1,165/wk · -4.8% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mining, oil and gas | 2,496 | $1,995 | 47.21 | +6.1% |
| Retail trade | 1,786 | $684 | 1.23 | -3.7% |
| Health care and social assistance | 1,229 | $820 | 0.55 | +5.9% |
| Construction | 1,220 | $1,245 | 1.57 | -35.4% |
| Accommodation and food services | 1,210 | $368 | 0.91 | -3.0% |
| Transportation and warehousing | 755 | $1,279 | 1.21 | +0.5% |
| Finance and insurance | 451 | $1,447 | 0.75 | +1.3% |
| Professional and technical services | 427 | $1,254 | 0.42 | +7.0% |
| Wholesale trade | 397 | $1,648 | 0.70 | +0.3% |
| Manufacturing | 394 | $1,125 | 0.33 | +1.8% |
| Other services | 368 | $934 | 0.83 | -1.6% |
| Real estate and rental | 229 | $1,444 | 1.01 | -4.6% |
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 #
$475.0 m in deposits at 3 offices of 3 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 4,099, highly concentrated. $174.2 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $149.6 m, grants $18.8 m), $11,729 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Wells Fargo Bank, National Association | $240.0 m · 50.5% share · 1 office | |
| Zions Bancorporation, N.A. | $177.8 m · 37.4% share · 1 office | |
| Grand Valley Bank | $57.2 m · 12.0% share · 1 office | |
| Uintah, UT | $174.2 m FY2026 · $11,729/job | |
| MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS | $141.7 m · top recipient FY2026 |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wells Fargo Bank, National Association | $239,997,000 | 50.5% | 1 |
| Zions Bancorporation, N.A. | $177,843,000 | 37.4% | 1 |
| Grand Valley Bank | $57,159,000 | 12.0% | 1 |
Deposit concentration is 4,099 across 3 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls highly concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 3 banks with deposits in the county = 50.5² + 37.4² + 12.0² = 4,099
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 | $127,342,692 |
| Department of Transportation | $17,869,515 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $13,209,363 |
| Department of the Interior | $4,559,343 |
| Department of Agriculture | $4,199,278 |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | $2,432,003 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | $2,148,944 |
| Department of Education | $1,446,655 |
| Railroad Retirement Board | $915,346 |
| General Services Administration | $48,816 |
| Federal Communications Commission | $20,825 |
| Small Business Administration | $0 |
That is $11,729 per covered job, against 14,850 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $174.2 m / 14,850 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $11,729
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 #
Uintah County, UT: 14 findings, 1 at an alert level, 5 at a watch level and 8 noted
alertUintah County, UT's covered employment is -4.8% against a year earlier, an alert level here: covered employment at least 3 percent below the same quarter a year earlier (BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; 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 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- test: jobs.yoy.emp = -4.8 <= -3
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level
watchUintah County, UT's covered employment is -4.8% 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 = -4.8 < 0
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level
watchUintah County, UT's typical asking rent rose 3.1% from $1,546 in August 2026 to $1,594 in September 2026, on Zillow ZORI.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- +3.1% = (1593.888888888889 - 1546.2287744421058) / 1546.2287744421058 × 100
- 1593.888888888889 = Zillow ZORI, 2026-09
- 1546.2287744421058 = Zillow ZORI, 2026-08
watchUintah County, UT's price-to-rent ratio of 18.6 scores 64 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 0 across Utah counties, a gap of 64 points.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- 64 = |64 across US counties - 0 across Utah counties|
- 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
watchUintah County, UT's years of wages of 5.9 scores 78 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 15 across Utah counties, a gap of 64 points.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- 64 = |78 across US counties - 15 across Utah 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
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.