Butte County, California

• White (non-Hispanic) 135,400 65.1%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 41,660 20.0%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 3,628 1.7%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 11,464 5.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 12,295 5.9%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 1,627 0.8%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 540 0.3%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 1,315 0.6%

• Under 18 42,452 20.4%
• 18–24 30,289 14.6%
• 25–44 52,107 25.1%
• 45–64 44,854 21.6%
• 65 and over 38,227 18.4%

Median household income

$65,143

90% interval $61,668–$68,618

−$34,987 vs CA · 50th of 58

Below poverty line

18.7%

90% interval 16.8%–20.6%

+6.9 pp vs CA · 6th of 58

Unemployment (12-mo)

6.0%

+0.69 pp vs. state

County GDP

$12.9B

0.32% of state

Avg. annual pay

$59,505

Establishments

8,995

• Education & health services 28,927 36.8%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 13,238 16.9%
• Leisure & hospitality 9,631 12.3%
• Professional & business services 5,233 6.7%
• Public administration 4,368 5.6%
• Construction 3,917 5.0%
• Other services 3,721 4.7%
• Manufacturing 3,594 4.6%
• Natural resources & mining 2,783 3.5%
• Financial activities 2,531 3.2%
• Information 574 0.7%
• Unclassified 25 0.0%

Home ownership

57.3%

+1.4 pp vs CA · 44th of 58

Median gross rent

$1,414

−$622 vs CA · 32nd of 58

Owner-occupied

47,717

Renter-occupied

35,595

• 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 (Construction, $80,586/yr) pays 2.7× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $29,597/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Small-business scale

  Average establishment employs only 8.7 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

• Republican 47,179 49.9%
• Democratic 44,228 46.8%
• Other / third-party 3,116 3.3%

• Spanish 21,388 10.8%
• Chinese 929 0.5%
• Tagalog 665 0.3%
• Vietnamese 643 0.3%
• Arabic 636 0.3%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 556 0.3%
• German or other West Germanic 467 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 320 0.2%
• Korean 188 0.1%

Households

83,312

Family households

48,124

57.8% of households

Married couples w/ children

12,401

25.8% of families

Single-mother families

5,092

10.6% of families

Veterans

11,249

6.8% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 22,429 10.6%
• Evangelical Protestant 19,490 9.2%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 13,615 6.4%
• Mainline Protestant 4,424 2.1%
• Black Protestant 1,010 0.5%
• Orthodox 300 0.1%

Health insured

93.6%

±0.6 pp

Uninsured

6.4%

±0.6 pp

24th of 58

With a disability

16.3%

±0.6 pp

16th of 58

Bachelor's or higher

31.9%

±1.2 pp

−5.2 pp vs CA · 24th of 58

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

6.3%

90% interval 5.6%–7.0% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Butte County Superior Court

Judges

11 (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

Oroville

Traffic fatalities

34

20.55 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

33