Baldwin County, Alabama

• White (non-Hispanic) 199,426 80.7%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 14,276 5.8%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 19,824 8.0%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 2,521 1.0%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 8,796 3.6%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 657 0.3%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 113 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 1,376 0.6%

• Under 18 52,190 21.1%
• 18–24 17,171 7.0%
• 25–44 57,170 23.1%
• 45–64 66,935 27.1%
• 65 and over 53,523 21.7%

Median household income

$82,519

90% interval $77,854–$87,184

+$15,815 vs AL · 3rd of 67

Below poverty line

10.5%

90% interval 8.9%–12.1%

−4.7 pp vs AL · 63rd of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

2.7%

−0.17 pp vs. state

County GDP

$13.4B

4.13% of state

Avg. annual pay

$53,357

Establishments

9,357

• Trade, transportation & utilities 20,950 23.8%
• Education & health services 18,604 21.2%
• Leisure & hospitality 16,880 19.2%
• Professional & business services 7,779 8.8%
• Construction 6,274 7.1%
• Public administration 4,731 5.4%
• Financial activities 4,654 5.3%
• Manufacturing 4,131 4.7%
• Other services 2,518 2.9%
• Natural resources & mining 721 0.8%
• Information 657 0.7%
• Unclassified 11 0.0%

Home ownership

77.6%

+7.4 pp vs AL · 16th of 67

Median gross rent

$1,277

+$270 vs AL · 2nd of 67

Owner-occupied

76,497

Renter-occupied

22,077

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 64% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Information, $83,120/yr) pays 2.9× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $28,815/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Small-business scale

  Average establishment employs only 9.4 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

• Republican 95,798 78.6%
• Democratic 24,934 20.5%
• Other / third-party 1,076 0.9%

• Spanish 8,320 3.5%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 611 0.3%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 519 0.2%
• Chinese 488 0.2%
• German or other West Germanic 485 0.2%
• Tagalog 310 0.1%
• Vietnamese 145 0.1%
• Korean 99 0.0%
• Arabic 68 0.0%

Households

98,574

Family households

67,415

68.4% of households

Married couples w/ children

18,073

26.8% of families

Single-mother families

3,788

5.6% of families

Veterans

19,604

10.1% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 67,296 29.0%
• Catholic 31,475 13.6%
• Mainline Protestant 18,789 8.1%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 3,585 1.5%
• Black Protestant 3,056 1.3%
• Orthodox 150 0.1%

Health insured

91.7%

±0.8 pp

Uninsured

8.3%

±0.8 pp

42nd of 67

With a disability

13.2%

±0.7 pp

64th of 67

Bachelor's or higher

33.7%

±1.3 pp

+5.3 pp vs AL · 6th of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

9.5%

90% interval 8.7%–10.3% · Census SAHIE

The under-65 uninsured rate is not comparable to the ACS insurance figures, which cover all ages.

Trial court

28th Judicial Circuit Court

Judges

7 (Circuit Court judges per circuit (general civil + felony criminal jurisdiction); District Court judges (limited jurisdiction) separate. Vintage 2026 alacourt.gov; counts for the 34th, 36th, and 41st circuits are approximate (single-county rural circuits typically carry 1 judge per Ala. Code § 12-17-23).)

Court seats

Bay Minette

Traffic fatalities

26

13.35 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

25

Contract, ejectment and seizure was the largest civil litigation category, at 24.6% of 1,943 filings. Motor-vehicle negligence ranked #3 at 17.7%.

• Contract, ejectment and seizure 478 24.6%
• Account collection 375 19.3%
• Motor-vehicle negligence 344 17.7%
• Other civil 193 9.9%
• Negligence, general 128 6.6%
• Equity, non-damage 103 5.3%

A further 141 filings in this division were protective orders, forfeitures or other non-litigation matters, and are excluded from these shares.