Benton County, Arkansas

• White (non-Hispanic) 176,255 58.0%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 56,188 18.5%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 5,383 1.8%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 13,844 4.6%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 46,310 15.3%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 1,842 0.6%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 2,274 0.7%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 1,536 0.5%

• Under 18 77,250 25.4%
• 18–24 25,153 8.3%
• 25–44 90,336 29.8%
• 45–64 69,134 22.8%
• 65 and over 41,759 13.8%

Median household income

$92,077

90% interval $86,458–$97,696

+$29,931 vs AR · 1st of 75

Below poverty line

8.4%

90% interval 7.2%–9.6%

−6.9 pp vs AR · 75th of 75

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.3%

−0.96 pp vs. state

County GDP

$26.1B

13.87% of state

Avg. annual pay

$91,099

Establishments

9,148

• Professional & business services 41,871 27.8%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 33,340 22.1%
• Education & health services 23,098 15.3%
• Leisure & hospitality 17,678 11.7%
• Manufacturing 13,013 8.6%
• Financial activities 4,581 3.0%
• Public administration 2,706 1.8%
• Construction 220 0.1%
• Information 121 0.1%
• Other services 23 0.0%

The sectors listed cover 90.7% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

67.0%

+0.6 pp vs AR · 52nd of 75

Median gross rent

$1,277

+$330 vs AR · 1st of 75

Owner-occupied

75,000

Renter-occupied

36,919

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 65% of the county workforce. Most panelists likely share employer relationships within these sectors, surface those connections early in voir dire before any institutional-defendant or sector-specific framing.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Professional & business services, $175,943/yr) pays 6.7× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $26,313/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 16 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Republican 79,907 62.1%
• Democratic 45,231 35.2%
• Other / third-party 3,457 2.7%

• Spanish 32,497 11.5%
• Vietnamese 1,120 0.4%
• German or other West Germanic 495 0.2%
• Chinese 448 0.2%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 446 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 262 0.1%
• Tagalog 250 0.1%
• Arabic 185 0.1%
• Korean 110 0.0%

Households

111,919

Family households

81,832

73.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

29,599

36.2% of families

Single-mother families

6,026

7.4% of families

Veterans

14,720

6.5% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 81,955 28.8%
• Catholic 30,143 10.6%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 13,212 4.6%
• Mainline Protestant 10,841 3.8%
• Black Protestant 2,542 0.9%
• Orthodox 97 0.0%

Health insured

90.5%

±0.6 pp

Uninsured

9.5%

±0.6 pp

24th of 75

With a disability

10.1%

±0.5 pp

75th of 75

Bachelor's or higher

37.8%

±1.2 pp

+12.1 pp vs AR · 2nd of 75

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

10.6%

90% interval 9.8%–11.4% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

19th Judicial Circuit Court

Judges

7 (Circuit Court judges per circuit (general civil + criminal jurisdiction across five subject-matter divisions: civil, criminal, juvenile, probate, domestic relations); District Court judges (limited jurisdiction) separate. Vintage 2026 arcourts.gov; counts for small rural circuits are approximate (single-county or single-judge circuits typically carry 2-4 judges per Ark. Code Ann. § 16-13-2402). Five circuits (8th, 9th, 11th, 18th, 19th) are administratively subdivided into East/West subdistricts for judge-residence purposes; the counts here combine both subdistricts.)

Court seats

Bentonville, Berryville, Eureka Springs

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

27

11.93 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

25