Calaveras County, California

• White (non-Hispanic) 35,337 76.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6,702 14.5%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 457 1.0%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 1,031 2.2%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 2,147 4.6%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 493 1.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 49 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 32 0.1%

• Under 18 7,833 16.9%
• 18–24 2,498 5.4%
• 25–44 9,314 20.1%
• 45–64 13,086 28.3%
• 65 and over 13,517 29.2%

Median household income

$79,852

90% interval $71,190–$88,514

−$20,278 vs CA · 29th of 58

Below poverty line

11.5%

90% interval 8.9%–14.1%

−0.3 pp vs CA · 38th of 58

Unemployment (12-mo)

6.2%

+0.86 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.1B

0.05% of state

Avg. annual pay

$60,085

Establishments

1,467

• Education & health services 2,717 26.8%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,879 18.5%
• Public administration 1,427 14.1%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,309 12.9%
• Construction 963 9.5%
• Professional & business services 847 8.4%
• Other services 332 3.3%
• Financial activities 164 1.6%
• Information 22 0.2%

The sectors listed cover 95.3% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

84.0%

+28.1 pp vs CA · 1st of 58

Median gross rent

$1,625

−$411 vs CA · 28th of 58

Owner-occupied

15,480

Renter-occupied

2,957

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 59% 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 (Construction, $82,849/yr) pays 2.9× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $28,166/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Small-business scale

  Average establishment employs only 6.9 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

• Republican 16,625 62.8%
• Democratic 9,181 34.7%
• Other / third-party 673 2.5%

• Spanish 2,678 6.0%
• Chinese 244 0.6%
• Tagalog 212 0.5%
• German or other West Germanic 184 0.4%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 88 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 65 0.1%
• Arabic 49 0.1%
• Vietnamese 33 0.1%
• Korean 20 0.0%

Households

18,437

Family households

13,057

70.8% of households

Married couples w/ children

2,481

19.0% of families

Single-mother families

499

3.8% of families

Veterans

3,286

8.6% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 3,922 8.7%
• Catholic 2,023 4.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,300 2.9%
• Mainline Protestant 481 1.1%
• Black Protestant 80 0.2%
• Orthodox 25 0.1%

Health insured

95.0%

±1.3 pp

Uninsured

5.0%

±1.3 pp

43rd of 58

With a disability

20.3%

±1.6 pp

5th of 58

Bachelor's or higher

23.9%

±2 pp

−13.2 pp vs CA · 36th of 58

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

5.3%

90% interval 4.6%–6.0% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Calaveras County Superior Court

Judges

3 (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

San Andreas

Traffic fatalities

13

33.84 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

11