Grant County Trends

08/04/2026

The BLS released the results of the 2025 Time Use Survey giving us important insights into how Americans spend their day. Interestingly at 2 pm, what many consider in the midst of a typical work-day, less than one-third of American adults are "working." At 8 pm, more than half of us are engaging in leisure. And notice the relatively smaller portion of time devoted to family-care.

https://www.bls.gov/tus/

08/04/2026

On Thursday, the BEA released June numbers for disposable personal income (DPI) and personal consumption expenditures. Across the US, people continue to spend more than they are bringing in, resulting in the decline in savings (black line). In June, DPI increased 0.2 percent but consumption spending increased 0.3 percent.

https://www.bea.gov/news/2026/personal-income-and-outlays-june-2026

07/30/2026

Our awesome student interns are vital to our success and we appreciate them today and every day. They work incredibly hard at managing and updating data, making / editing cool graphs, and writing analyses.

07/28/2026

Combined, the share of the county population that are in the youngest (0-17) and oldest (65+) age groups has not changed over the past 25 years, holding steady around 40%. However, the community is clearly getting older. As you can see in the graph, the 65+ age group increased its share by 5 percentage points and at the same time, the 17 and under group decreased its share by a similar amount.

To see all the data, especially how the combined counties benchmark against the state average, head over to Grant County Trends: https://www.grantcountytrends.org/

07/24/2026

We just released our July Blog covering recently updated indicators for the county such as population growth, water production, average annual wage, housing affordability and more.

While there, make sure to subscribe so that the next blog gets delivered right to your e-mail.

https://www.grantcountytrends.org/newsletter/

07/23/2026

According to QCEW data recently released for 2025, wages in agriculture in the county are rising faster than the state average. Average annual wages in the other top sectors (by employment) continue to rise as well.

Head over to Grant County Trends to see this and other economic indicators that have been updated. Remember you can always download our full data set as well.

https://www.grantcountytrends.org/

07/17/2026

Over the summer, our student interns, such as Moon, are able to put in more hours at the office and we are happy to have them! Head on over to Grant County Trends to see which demographic, economic, health, education, housing or transportation indicators they might have recently updated.

https://grantcountytrends.org/

07/15/2026

Did you know there are over 150 different community indicators on Grant County Trends - each updated throughout the year? But which ones, and when?

The Grant County Trends Blog lists the most recently updated indicators on the Grant County Trends website with short summaries of important implications for the local community.

https://www.grantcountytrends.org/newsletter/

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07/13/2026

Washington OFM recently released their 2026 population estimates and components of population change. The county grew at 1.2%, greater than the state average of 0.75%.

Residual net migration brought in 658 more people moving into the county than leaving it, comprising over half of the overall net population growth from the past year.

03/25/2024

DAILY DOSE OF DATA: Washington leads the nation in arts & cultural production as a share of GDP -- accounting for nearly 9.5% of Washington's GDP (almost $1 out of every $10 of total output). According to the latest figures from the BEA, Washington's arts & culture sector of the economy is nearly twice as big as the national average (4.8%). The biggest gains recently have been in performing arts and fine arts education.

Source:https://www.bea.gov/sites/default/files/2024-03/acpsa0324.pdf