Blount County, Alabama

• White (non-Hispanic) 50,316 84.5%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6,130 10.3%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 716 1.2%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 64 0.1%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,983 3.3%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 73 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 81 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 155 0.3%

• Under 18 13,733 23.1%
• 18–24 4,611 7.7%
• 25–44 14,167 23.8%
• 45–64 15,940 26.8%
• 65 and over 11,067 18.6%

Median household income

$69,371

90% interval $64,742–$74,000

+$2,667 vs AL · 10th of 67

Below poverty line

11.7%

90% interval 9.5%–13.9%

−3.5 pp vs AL · 61st of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

2.5%

−0.34 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.5B

0.47% of state

Avg. annual pay

$47,842

Establishments

1,006

• Education & health services 2,367 25.6%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,979 21.4%
• Manufacturing 1,370 14.8%
• Leisure & hospitality 978 10.6%
• Construction 678 7.3%
• Professional & business services 460 5.0%
• Other services 280 3.0%
• Financial activities 276 3.0%
• Public administration 168 1.8%
• Natural resources & mining 73 0.8%
• Information 56 0.6%

The sectors listed cover 94.1% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

81.0%

+10.8 pp vs AL · 8th of 67

Median gross rent

$776

−$231 vs AL · 34th of 67

Owner-occupied

17,962

Renter-occupied

4,218

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 62% 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 (Financial activities, $65,429/yr) pays 3.2× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $20,476/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Small-business scale

  Average establishment employs only 9.2 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

• Republican 25,354 90.2%
• Democratic 2,576 9.2%
• Other / third-party 185 0.7%

• Spanish 4,457 7.9%
• German or other West Germanic 59 0.1%
• Tagalog 41 0.1%
• Arabic 7 0.0%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 5 0.0%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 5 0.0%
• Chinese 2 0.0%

Households

22,180

Family households

16,118

72.7% of households

Married couples w/ children

4,183

26.0% of families

Single-mother families

1,451

9.0% of families

Veterans

2,829

6.2% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 28,166 47.6%
• Mainline Protestant 2,501 4.2%
• Catholic 2,064 3.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 774 1.3%
• Black Protestant 390 0.7%

Health insured

89.7%

±1.2 pp

Uninsured

10.3%

±1.2 pp

19th of 67

With a disability

17.5%

±1.2 pp

43rd of 67

Bachelor's or higher

15.8%

±1.6 pp

−12.6 pp vs AL · 42nd of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

12.7%

90% interval 11.5%–13.9% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

41st Judicial Circuit Court

Judges

1 (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

Oneonta

Traffic fatalities

16

34.95 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

16

Contract, ejectment and seizure was the largest civil litigation category, at 24.5% of 294 filings. Motor-vehicle negligence ranked #3 at 14.6%.

• Contract, ejectment and seizure 72 24.5%
• Account collection 54 18.4%
• Motor-vehicle negligence 43 14.6%
• Equity, non-damage 38 12.9%
• Other civil 31 10.5%
• Negligence, general 10 3.4%

A further 179 filings in this division were protective orders, forfeitures or other non-litigation matters, and are excluded from these shares.