Del Norte County, California

• White (non-Hispanic) 16,229 59.9%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5,396 19.9%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 682 2.5%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 873 3.2%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 2,062 7.6%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 1,400 5.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 129 0.5%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 336 1.2%

• Under 18 5,657 20.9%
• 18–24 1,634 6.0%
• 25–44 7,595 28.0%
• 45–64 6,669 24.6%
• 65 and over 5,552 20.5%

Median household income

$58,773

90% interval $52,223–$65,323

−$41,357 vs CA · 55th of 58

Below poverty line

19.9%

90% interval 15.8%–24.0%

+8.1 pp vs CA · 2nd of 58

Unemployment (12-mo)

6.3%

+0.99 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.1B

0.03% of state

Avg. annual pay

$57,699

Establishments

862

• Education & health services 2,539 30.3%
• Public administration 2,098 25.0%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,307 15.6%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,213 14.5%
• Financial activities 171 2.0%
• Professional & business services 170 2.0%
• Construction 52 0.6%
• Information 5 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 90.1% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

70.1%

+14.2 pp vs CA · 14th of 58

Median gross rent

$1,233

−$803 vs CA · 46th of 58

Owner-occupied

6,673

Renter-occupied

2,849

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 71% 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.

• Compressed wage spread

  Highest-paid sector pays only 1.7× the lowest ($67,250 vs $38,605/yr), a relatively flat local wage distribution.

• Small-business scale

  Average establishment employs only 9.7 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

• Republican 5,999 56.8%
• Democratic 4,266 40.4%
• Other / third-party 299 2.8%

• Spanish 2,251 8.7%
• Korean 111 0.4%
• Vietnamese 86 0.3%
• Chinese 69 0.3%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 43 0.2%
• Tagalog 42 0.2%
• German or other West Germanic 31 0.1%
• Arabic 24 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 18 0.1%

Households

9,522

Family households

6,415

67.4% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,456

22.7% of families

Single-mother families

510

8.0% of families

Veterans

1,670

7.8% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 1,798 6.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,016 3.7%
• Catholic 764 2.8%
• Mainline Protestant 230 0.8%
• Black Protestant 100 0.4%

Health insured

94.5%

±1.3 pp

Uninsured

5.5%

±1.3 pp

38th of 58

With a disability

21.1%

±2.1 pp

4th of 58

Bachelor's or higher

21.4%

±2.8 pp

−15.7 pp vs CA · 44th of 58

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

6.1%

90% interval 5.4%–6.8% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Del Norte 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

Crescent City

Traffic fatalities

6

27.97 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

6