Saline County, Arkansas

• White (non-Hispanic) 99,784 78.3%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 9,282 7.3%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 11,836 9.3%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 1,271 1.0%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 4,426 3.5%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 231 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 649 0.5%

• Under 18 29,643 23.3%
• 18–24 9,284 7.3%
• 25–44 33,452 26.2%
• 45–64 31,656 24.8%
• 65 and over 23,444 18.4%

Median household income

$80,628

90% interval $74,378–$86,878

+$18,482 vs AR · 2nd of 75

Below poverty line

9.8%

90% interval 8.3%–11.3%

−5.5 pp vs AR · 74th of 75

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.5%

−0.72 pp vs. state

County GDP

$4.0B

2.14% of state

Avg. annual pay

$48,565

Establishments

2,652

• Education & health services 8,275 29.0%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 6,289 22.0%
• Leisure & hospitality 4,240 14.9%
• Construction 2,691 9.4%
• Professional & business services 2,441 8.6%
• Manufacturing 1,469 5.1%
• Financial activities 1,085 3.8%
• Public administration 926 3.2%
• Other services 888 3.1%
• Information 183 0.6%
• Natural resources & mining 64 0.2%

Home ownership

78.2%

+11.8 pp vs AR · 16th of 75

Median gross rent

$1,033

+$86 vs AR · 4th of 75

Owner-occupied

39,268

Renter-occupied

10,935

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 66% 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.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $70,496/yr) pays 3.3× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $21,556/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 11 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 39,736 69.0%
• Democratic 16,609 28.8%
• Other / third-party 1,264 2.2%

• Spanish 6,378 5.3%
• Tagalog 267 0.2%
• German or other West Germanic 220 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 174 0.1%
• Vietnamese 102 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 62 0.1%
• Korean 49 0.0%
• Chinese 22 0.0%

Households

50,203

Family households

35,463

70.6% of households

Married couples w/ children

12,286

34.6% of families

Single-mother families

2,538

7.2% of families

Veterans

8,327

8.5% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 31,951 25.9%
• Mainline Protestant 5,587 4.5%
• Black Protestant 5,080 4.1%
• Catholic 1,916 1.6%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 755 0.6%

Health insured

94.0%

±0.7 pp

Uninsured

6.0%

±0.7 pp

68th of 75

With a disability

15.9%

±0.9 pp

71st of 75

Bachelor's or higher

29.4%

±1.6 pp

+3.7 pp vs AR · 6th of 75

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

9.6%

90% interval 8.6%–10.6% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

22nd Judicial Circuit Court

Judges

4 (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

Benton

Traffic fatalities

12

12.27 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

12