Housing
Home value change
Published for: County
Zillow ZHVI, county, smoothed & seasonally adjusted
Aug 2026 vs Aug 2025 · Zillow data with attribution
How housing and household costs are moving
Two separate questions, each answered at the geography its source publishes. Housing: home-value change and new-housing permits, both by county. A rising home value is a price change, not a measure of affordability, and permit growth counts what is being built, not what building costs. Household costs: grocery prices by metro area or region, electricity prices by state, and energy burden by county as a model estimate. Data retrieved 2026-09-28.
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Housing
Permits growth
Published for: County
Census Building Permits Survey (annual, estimates with imputation)
2025 vs 2024 · Counties with <10 permitted units in the base year are not shown
Household costs
Grocery prices
Published for: Metro area or census region
BLS CPI, food at home, NSA
Aug 2026 vs Aug 2025 · Measured index at metro/region level, mapped to counties by benchmark geography
Household costs
Energy burden
Published for: County (model estimate)
DOE LEAD Tool
ACS 2022 PUMS (2018–2022) · Modeled estimate — not observed bills
Household costs
Electricity (residential)
Published for: State
EIA Electric Power Monthly Table 5.6.A
July 2026 (published Sept 2026) · Official EIA data; value = [current, year-ago]
Coverage notes: county values cover the 3,112 counties this site covers (Alaska is outside that coverage and shown muted). Connecticut's eight historical counties have no energy-burden or permit values because official sources report Connecticut planning regions, which are never mapped onto county lines. Grocery values are benchmark indexes at metro or census-region level, not individual county measurements. This is a research preview: values are the latest available snapshots and have not had the full checks published layers get.
Gasoline prices are no longer shown: AAA's terms of use allow personal, non-commercial use only and forbid reproducing or displaying its content, so the site links to AAA instead of showing its averages. AAA’s state averages →