Kings County, California

• White (non-Hispanic) 42,981 28.0%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 89,248 58.2%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 8,907 5.8%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 5,521 3.6%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 4,855 3.2%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 1,078 0.7%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 316 0.2%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 392 0.3%

• Under 18 41,126 26.8%
• 18–24 15,901 10.4%
• 25–44 48,539 31.7%
• 45–64 31,148 20.3%
• 65 and over 16,584 10.8%

Median household income

$71,731

90% interval $66,916–$76,546

−$28,399 vs CA · 38th of 58

Below poverty line

14.4%

90% interval 11.5%–17.3%

+2.6 pp vs CA · 22nd of 58

Unemployment (12-mo)

9.0%

+3.62 pp vs. state

County GDP

$9.2B

0.23% of state

Avg. annual pay

$57,329

Establishments

5,449

• Education & health services 14,771 28.4%
• Natural resources & mining 9,150 17.6%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 6,936 13.3%
• Public administration 6,524 12.5%
• Leisure & hospitality 5,347 10.3%
• Manufacturing 4,235 8.1%
• Professional & business services 2,180 4.2%
• Construction 1,232 2.4%
• Financial activities 760 1.5%
• Other services 27 0.1%
• Unclassified 2 0.0%

The sectors listed cover 98.3% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

54.2%

−1.7 pp vs CA · 53rd of 58

Median gross rent

$1,331

−$705 vs CA · 37th of 58

Owner-occupied

23,870

Renter-occupied

20,182

• 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.

• Compressed wage spread

  Highest-paid sector pays only 2.2× the lowest ($76,836 vs $35,384/yr), a relatively flat local wage distribution.

• Small-business scale

  Average establishment employs only 9.6 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

• Republican 25,074 60.4%
• Democratic 15,519 37.4%
• Other / third-party 908 2.2%

• Spanish 53,678 37.7%
• Tagalog 1,997 1.4%
• Chinese 638 0.4%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 206 0.1%
• Arabic 188 0.1%
• Vietnamese 178 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 141 0.1%
• Korean 137 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 60 0.0%

Households

44,052

Family households

33,503

76.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

10,848

32.4% of families

Single-mother families

4,168

12.4% of families

Veterans

7,079

6.7% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 53,195 34.9%
• Evangelical Protestant 7,819 5.1%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 5,132 3.4%
• Mainline Protestant 2,325 1.5%
• Black Protestant 486 0.3%

Health insured

92.7%

±0.9 pp

Uninsured

7.3%

±0.9 pp

17th of 58

With a disability

12.8%

±0.7 pp

29th of 58

Bachelor's or higher

13.6%

±1 pp

−23.5 pp vs CA · 57th of 58

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.0%

90% interval 7.1%–8.9% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Kings County Superior Court

Judges

9 (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

Hanford

Traffic fatalities

30

26.74 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

28