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Filter every US county on published facts. Leave the box empty to search the whole country, or narrow it to a state, county, ZIP or address first. Every figure is the raw published value from a named source. There is no score and no ranking: you choose what to sort by, and anything we could not measure is listed rather than quietly dropped.

Median gross rent ($/mo)

US Census ACS 5-year

Unemployment rate (%)

BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

Population density (/sq mi)

US Census Gazetteer

Most recent disaster declaration (year)

FEMA — year of the latest federal declaration

Median home value ($)

US Census ACS 5-year

January average low (°F)

NOAA 1991–2020 normals, nearest station

July average high (°F)

NOAA 1991–2020 normals, nearest station

Annual precipitation (in)

NOAA 1991–2020 normals, nearest station

Wildfire risk to homes (pctl)

USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities, national percentile

Mortgage delinquency (%)

CFPB Mortgage Performance, 30+ days

Net migration (tax returns)

IRS county-to-county migration, inflow minus outflow

New housing permits (units/yr)

US Census Building Permits Survey, latest year

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How this works, and what it deliberately won’t do. Figures are published public data for the geography shown — not for any individual property — each from a named government source. The screener filters on objective facts only: it carries no demographic, crime or school-rating dimension, produces no composite “score”, and offers no prepackaged persona. You set the criteria and the sort order. Not advice, and not an appraisal.