Amador County, California

• White (non-Hispanic) 30,083 72.6%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6,634 16.0%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 790 1.9%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 558 1.3%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 2,418 5.8%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 410 1.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 35 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 500 1.2%

• Under 18 6,389 15.4%
• 18–24 2,164 5.2%
• 25–44 10,028 24.2%
• 45–64 11,424 27.6%
• 65 and over 11,423 27.6%

Median household income

$85,625

90% interval $78,787–$92,463

−$14,505 vs CA · 28th of 58

Below poverty line

10.8%

90% interval 8.3%–13.3%

−1.0 pp vs CA · 41st of 58

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.8%

+0.48 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.1B

0.05% of state

Avg. annual pay

$61,556

Establishments

1,362

• Public administration 2,822 23.1%
• Education & health services 2,445 20.0%
• Leisure & hospitality 2,148 17.6%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,813 14.9%
• Manufacturing 764 6.3%
• Natural resources & mining 486 4.0%
• Professional & business services 472 3.9%
• Construction 443 3.6%
• Financial activities 292 2.4%
• Other services 51 0.4%
• Information 11 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 96.3% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

80.4%

+24.5 pp vs CA · 2nd of 58

Median gross rent

$1,421

−$615 vs CA · 31st of 58

Owner-occupied

12,941

Renter-occupied

3,150

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 61% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Compressed wage spread

  Highest-paid sector pays only 2.0× the lowest ($79,252 vs $40,468/yr), a relatively flat local wage distribution.

• Small-business scale

  Average establishment employs only 9.0 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

• Republican 14,018 62.6%
• Democratic 7,783 34.7%
• Other / third-party 601 2.7%

• Spanish 2,735 6.9%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 413 1.0%
• Tagalog 218 0.5%
• German or other West Germanic 200 0.5%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 142 0.4%
• Chinese 90 0.2%
• Vietnamese 33 0.1%
• Arabic 19 0.0%
• Korean 3 0.0%

Households

16,091

Family households

10,563

65.6% of households

Married couples w/ children

2,285

21.6% of families

Single-mother families

498

4.7% of families

Veterans

3,481

9.9% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 5,139 12.7%
• Evangelical Protestant 3,670 9.1%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,798 4.4%
• Mainline Protestant 311 0.8%
• Orthodox 160 0.4%

Health insured

95.1%

±1.3 pp

Uninsured

4.9%

±1.3 pp

44th of 58

With a disability

16.2%

±1.6 pp

18th of 58

Bachelor's or higher

22.4%

±2.1 pp

−14.7 pp vs CA · 42nd of 58

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

5.3%

90% interval 4.7%–5.9% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Amador County Superior Court

Judges

2 (Superior Court judges + commissioners; vintage 2026 courts.ca.gov per-court rosters and Judicial Council Court Statistics Report. Counts for the smallest rural counties (Alpine, Sierra, Mono, Modoc, Trinity, Mariposa, Colusa) are at or near the statutory authorized-judgeship floor per Cal. Gov. Code § 69590 et seq.)

Court seats

Jackson

Traffic fatalities

7

19.98 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

7