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Kansas / Rooks County

How's Rooks County?

One question about Rooks County, Kansas, each answered from public data, with the method and the raw numbers one click away. More topics for this place are on the way.

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Right now in Rooks County

As of the site's last build: the drought map of October 20, 2026, the wildfire list of October 27, 2026 and stream gages on October 25, 2026. Every state.

Drought

0%

No drought. Four weeks before: 0%; a year before: 0%.

US Drought Monitor, via waterdata.dev

Wildfires not yet out

0

None reported here.

NIFC WFIGS, via wildfiredata.dev. A small fire can stay "not out" for weeks after it stops burning.

Rivers and streams

  • BOW C NR STOCKTON: 3.93 ft³/s, 1.8× last year
  • SF SOLOMON R AB WEBSTER RE: 0.11 ft³/s, –
  • SF SOLOMON R AT WOODSTON: 0.27 ft³/s, 1.3× last year

USGS daily mean flow, October 25, 2026 against October 25, 2025, via waterdata.dev. One year back is all the API keeps, so this is not a long-term normal.

Rooks County year by year

Yearly figures for every US county, latest complete year 2024 to 2025:jobs, wages and workplaces from the Bureau of Labor Statistics; the year's temperature and precipitation against normal from NOAA; presidential and House votes from the MIT Election Data and Science Lab.

Jobs and pay

IndicatorLatest1 yr5 yr10 yrAmong countiesTrend
Average weekly wage2025 · jobs covered by unemployment insurance, before tax, not adjusted for inflation$909+6.0%+29.5%+41.8%Lowest quartile2,544 of 3,221 counties in 2025 · 66 of 105 in Kansas
Jobs located here2025 · by where the job is, not where the worker lives1.8K jobs+1.1%+1.9%−10.5%Lowest quartile2,772 of 3,221 counties in 2025 · 67 of 105 in Kansas
Business establishments2025 · workplaces covered by unemployment insurance, each location counted once194.8 establishments−3.3%−0.4%−7.6%Lowest quartile2,748 of 3,221 counties in 2025 · 66 of 105 in Kansas
Unemployment rate2025 · by where people live; 2025 averages 11 months, as BLS does, since October was not collected3.2%−0.1 pts−0.7 pts−1.3 ptsLowest quartile2,568 of 3,221 counties in 2025 · 72 of 105 in Kansas
Labor force2025 · residents working or looking for work2.4K people+1.9%−0.5%−13.4%Lowest quartile2,853 of 3,221 counties in 2025 · 66 of 105 in Kansas

Weather

IndicatorLatest1 yr5 yr10 yrAmong countiesTrend
Yearly temperature against normal2025 · the year's average temperature minus its 1991–2020 average+0.8 °F−1.1 °F+0.5 °F−0.8 °F3rd quartile1,970 of 3,134 counties in 2025 · 68 of 105 in Kansas
Yearly precipitation, share of normal2025 · rain and melted snow over the year, against its 1991–2020 average88% of normal+3 pts+6 pts−2 pts3rd quartile2,058 of 3,134 counties in 2025 · 90 of 105 in Kansas

Presidential vote

IndicatorLatest4 yr8 yr12 yrAmong countiesTrend
Presidential vote margin2024 · Republican minus Democratic share of all presidential votes castR+71.2D+2.4D+1.4R+3.0Highest quartile256 of 3,104 counties in 2024 · 18 of 105 in Kansas
Third-party and write-in share2024 · every presidential vote not for the Democratic or Republican candidate1.3% of votes0.0 pts−3.4 pts−1.2 pts3rd quartile1,697 of 3,104 counties in 2024 · 99 of 105 in Kansas
Votes cast for president2024 · a count of votes, not turnout: there is no count of eligible voters here to divide by2.5K votes−6.1%+4.8%+3.0%Lowest quartile2,755 of 3,104 counties in 2024 · 64 of 105 in Kansas

10 indicators. Change is a percent change for totals and levels, and a difference in points or units for rates and shares. "Among counties" ranks Rooks County against every US county with a figure for the same year (1 is the highest value, which is not always the best). In the strip each tick is one of them, the dot is Rooks County and the taller gray tick is the United States as a whole, where there is a national figure. A year is shown only once it is complete. Each indicator's page ranks every state.