Los Angeles County, California

• White (non-Hispanic) 2,425,184 24.7%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4,752,274 48.4%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 727,132 7.4%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 1,463,532 14.9%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 343,449 3.5%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 16,982 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 19,950 0.2%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 60,164 0.6%

• Under 18 2,019,140 20.6%
• 18–24 872,040 8.9%
• 25–44 2,932,337 29.9%
• 45–64 2,497,450 25.5%
• 65 and over 1,487,700 15.2%

Median household income

$90,757

90% interval $90,046–$91,468

−$9,373 vs CA · 25th of 58

Below poverty line

13.3%

90% interval 12.9%–13.7%

+1.5 pp vs CA · 29th of 58

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.4%

+0.05 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1003.0B

24.78% of state

Avg. annual pay

$86,080

Establishments

577,270

• Education & health services 1,328,750 29.4%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 839,563 18.6%
• Professional & business services 649,377 14.3%
• Leisure & hospitality 543,144 12.0%
• Manufacturing 301,831 6.7%
• Financial activities 201,450 4.5%
• Public administration 176,739 3.9%
• Information 175,045 3.9%
• Other services 154,954 3.4%
• Construction 147,854 3.3%
• Natural resources & mining 6,057 0.1%
• Unclassified 697 0.0%

Home ownership

45.9%

−10.0 pp vs CA · 57th of 58

Median gross rent

$1,954

−$82 vs CA · 19th of 58

Owner-occupied

1,567,983

Renter-occupied

1,848,466

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 62% 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 (Information, $187,855/yr) pays 3.5× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $53,871/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Small-business scale

  Average establishment employs only 7.8 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

• Democratic 2,417,109 64.8%
• Republican 1,189,862 31.9%
• Other / third-party 121,456 3.3%

• Spanish 3,498,863 37.6%
• Chinese 386,106 4.1%
• Tagalog 216,850 2.3%
• Korean 156,737 1.7%
• Vietnamese 78,733 0.8%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 73,923 0.8%
• Arabic 47,317 0.5%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 39,992 0.4%
• German or other West Germanic 25,315 0.3%

Households

3,416,449

Family households

2,225,613

65.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

580,103

26.1% of families

Single-mother families

203,292

9.1% of families

Veterans

209,570

2.7% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 3,148,829 31.4%
• Evangelical Protestant 862,872 8.6%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 624,539 6.2%
• Black Protestant 222,004 2.2%
• Mainline Protestant 154,278 1.5%
• Orthodox 99,094 1.0%

Health insured

91.8%

±0.1 pp

Uninsured

8.2%

±0.1 pp

8th of 58

With a disability

11.3%

±0.1 pp

47th of 58

Bachelor's or higher

36.0%

−1.1 pp vs CA · 20th of 58

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.3%

90% interval 8.1%–8.5% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Los Angeles County Superior Court

Judges

482 (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

Los Angeles

Traffic fatalities

778

9.99 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

726