GRAI ORIGINAL DATA · EMPLOYMENT LAYER V1
Employment-Visa Housing Exposure
A living research dashboard tracking how H-1B employment activity is changing across US housing markets. The employment layer is live first. Housing, rental and local-demand indicators will be added as the data pipes are validated.
Apr–Jun 2026 vs Apr–Jun 2025
North Texas fell more than 4× as sharply as the US nationally.
The six-city DFW corridor is Dallas, Plano, Irving, Frisco, Richardson and McKinney.
Read this correctly: an LCA is an employer filing, not a worker arrival, household or home purchase. One filing can cover several positions.
MARKET EXPLORER
What changed in a specific employment market?
New-employment positions
*Share is calculated among records where the H-1B-dependent field is known. It is a statutory employer classification, not a staffing-company classification.
CROSS-MARKET COMPARISON
Where did new-employment activity change most?
Click a market to open it in the explorer.
DATA TABLE
Selected US employment markets
| Market | 2025 new positions | 2026 new positions | YoY change | 2026 Level I/II share | 2026 H-1B-dependent share* |
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METHODOLOGY & TRUST
What this dashboard measures, and what it does not.
Observed
Certified H-1B LCA filings and employer-declared new-employment positions from US Department of Labor OFLC disclosure data.
Calculated by GRAI
Like-for-like year-over-year changes, market shares and wage-level composition derived from the disclosure records.
Not measured
Worker arrivals, unique H-1B residents, household moves, home purchases, home sales or migration flows.
Important file trap
The FY2026 Q3 DOL file is cumulative from Oct 1, 2025 through Jun 30, 2026. GRAI filters by decision date to isolate Apr–Jun for like-for-like comparisons.
Geography limitation
The main disclosure file records one worksite city on each filing, while some LCAs cover multiple worksites. City-level figures are therefore directional employment-filing indicators. The six-city DFW aggregate reduces some intra-corridor attribution noise but is not a count of workers physically located in the corridor.
Why the dashboard will change
Future versions will join supplementary DOL worksite records where available and add housing, rental, local-consumption and commercial-real-estate indicators only after each data pipe has been validated. Historical values may be restated if a more precise official source becomes available.
FROM MARKET DATA TO YOUR PROPERTY
Market averages cannot tell you whether your house should be sold, rented or held.
Bring the actual property, mortgage, rent and scenario assumptions into GRAI.