Jurisdictions

Jurisdictions is a data page on the Domestic Intelligence desk of Glassbox Auditing. One place at a time (the nation, a state or a city) in annual source tables: vote shares, the economy by industry, jobs and wages, home ownership and buying, psychiatric care capacity and, for Philadelphia, property values and sales. A place leaning on a few industries rises and falls with them, and its politics shape its taxes and rules.

Last updated: 29 Sep 2026.

What is the latest reading?

Hires, % of jobs (states summed): 15.9% as of 1 Jul 2025, -7.6 pts since Apr 2001. Source: U.S. Census Bureau Quarterly Workforce Indicators (LEHD: jobs, hires, separations, earnings).

What is on this page today?

Texas exported $532B of goods in the 12 months to September 2026, the most of any state — All states together: $2,294B, +13.3% on the 12 months before. Exports are counted where the goods began their journey to the border, not always where they were made. (Census Bureau (state exports of goods), 29 Sep 2026)
Home buyers on Philadelphia deeds: 15,740 in 2025, -3.6% on 2024 — Distinct buyer names on residential deeds priced at $1,000+, by recording year. The top 1% of recorded owner names hold 9.7% of residential tax accounts (2026 assessor snapshot). (City of Philadelphia Records Department, 30 Dec 2025)
Delaware: 34% of state GDP comes from finance and insurance, the largest single-industry share of any state (2025) — Each state's largest industry by share of GDP: District of Columbia government and government enterprises 30%; Indiana manufacturing 24%; New Mexico government and government enterprises 21%. BEA current-dollar value… (Bureau of Economic Analysis (GDP by state), 30 Dec 2025)
Employers hired 15.9% of their workforce in 2025-Q3, -0.4 points on a year earlier — The states summed (49 states report; QWI has no national total). Separations were 16.2% of jobs. Hiring slows before layoffs rise. (Census Bureau (Quarterly Workforce Indicators), 29 Sep 2025)
Pay in stable jobs rose fastest in Maryland: +10.4% on a year earlier (2025-Q3) — Monthly earnings of workers who held a job all quarter, against 2024-Q3; +4.2% for the states summed; slowest: Idaho (+0.5%). (Census Bureau (Quarterly Workforce Indicators), 29 Sep 2025)
Psychiatric hospital beds reported: 41,988 in 2024 — Summed over the hospitals that reported beds, among the 479 psychiatric hospitals that answered the survey (435 in 2023), so the total moves with who answered; not every bed in the country. (SAMHSA N-SUMHSS, 30 Dec 2024)
2024 presidential popular vote: Republican 49.8%, Democrat 48.3% — Democratic minus Republican share: -1.5 points, against +4.5 in 2020. Shares of votes cast for president nationwide; elections before 2016 from the MIT Election Data + Science Lab. (Federal Election Commission, 4 Nov 2024)
8.36 million employer businesses in 2023, +0.8% on 2022 — 139.8 million employees at an average of $68,342 a year (+3.5% on 2022). Private employers only; government, farm workers and the self-employed are not counted. (Census Bureau (County Business Patterns), 11 Mar 2023)
Employees in District of Columbia earn the most: $101,634 a year on average (2023) — The 50 states and DC; the average over all of them is $68,342. Total payroll divided by employees at private employers, before taxes. (Census Bureau (County Business Patterns), 11 Mar 2023)

Where does the data come from?

Items on this page come from Census Bureau (state exports of goods); City of Philadelphia Records Department; Bureau of Economic Analysis (GDP by state); Census Bureau (Quarterly Workforce Indicators); SAMHSA N-SUMHSS; Federal Election Commission; Census Bureau (County Business Patterns). Each item links to its own source. All sources, how items are checked.

What does this page lead to?

Labor Market (Macro): QCEW counts nearly every job by county and industry, so a large layoff in a county's main industry reaches the state and national payroll counts. (moves the same way; same quarter; economy scale) Source: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (jobs by industry).
Election Outlook (Domestic Intelligence): A place's past vote shares are the baseline for its next races, and a large shift between elections marks where seats come into play. (either way, depending on the cause; election cycle; economy scale) Source: MIT Election Data + Science Lab, U.S. President 1976-2024.
Well-being (Domestic Intelligence): Where psychiatric bed capacity falls, more people in crisis tend to end up in emergency rooms and jails, which adds to police calls and public-safety spending. (moves the other way; years; economy scale) Source: SAMHSA National Substance Use and Mental Health Services Survey.
Energy & Materials (Macro): States whose output leans on oil and gas (Texas, North Dakota, Alaska, Wyoming) move with crude prices through drilling jobs and severance-tax revenue. (moves the same way; months; sector scale) Source: BEA GDP by state and industry (SAGDP).
Credit & Housing (Macro): Recorded home sales and mortgages by place (Philadelphia's transfers, HMDA) are the local pieces of national housing activity, so a city's turn shows early in its own records. (moves the same way; months; economy scale) Source: Philadelphia real estate transfers (Records Dept., OpenDataPhilly).

What feeds this page?

Government (People & Money): Governors, legislatures and mayors set a state's or city's taxes, spending and rules, recorded in Census's government finance survey, which over years shape the jobs, wages and home-buying in that place's tables. (either way, depending on the cause; years; economy scale) Source: Census Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances.