Madera County, California

• White (non-Hispanic) 48,195 29.9%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 98,083 60.9%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 3,926 2.4%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 3,789 2.4%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 5,395 3.4%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 707 0.4%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 203 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 642 0.4%

• Under 18 43,672 27.1%
• 18–24 15,806 9.8%
• 25–44 43,141 26.8%
• 45–64 35,173 21.9%
• 65 and over 23,148 14.4%

Median household income

$71,161

90% interval $66,984–$75,338

−$28,969 vs CA · 40th of 58

Below poverty line

17.7%

90% interval 15.1%–20.3%

+5.9 pp vs CA · 12th of 58

Unemployment (12-mo)

7.8%

+2.39 pp vs. state

County GDP

$8.8B

0.22% of state

Avg. annual pay

$57,887

Establishments

5,798

• Education & health services 16,238 28.0%
• Natural resources & mining 12,536 21.6%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 7,246 12.5%
• Leisure & hospitality 5,665 9.8%
• Public administration 5,057 8.7%
• Professional & business services 3,606 6.2%
• Manufacturing 3,353 5.8%
• Construction 2,338 4.0%
• Other services 964 1.7%
• Information 21 0.0%

The sectors listed cover 98.2% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

67.5%

+11.6 pp vs CA · 20th of 58

Median gross rent

$1,390

−$646 vs CA · 34th of 58

Owner-occupied

30,613

Renter-occupied

14,766

• 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.

• Compressed wage spread

  Highest-paid sector pays only 2.2× the lowest ($78,212 vs $35,515/yr), a relatively flat local wage distribution.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 10 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Republican 32,344 59.2%
• Democratic 20,981 38.4%
• Other / third-party 1,299 2.4%

• Spanish 64,177 42.7%
• Tagalog 423 0.3%
• Arabic 328 0.2%
• Chinese 272 0.2%
• German or other West Germanic 204 0.1%
• Vietnamese 176 0.1%
• Korean 175 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 130 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 124 0.1%

Households

45,379

Family households

34,350

75.7% of households

Married couples w/ children

9,628

28.0% of families

Single-mother families

3,959

11.5% of families

Veterans

5,461

4.7% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 46,538 29.8%
• Evangelical Protestant 13,439 8.6%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 7,537 4.8%
• Mainline Protestant 1,201 0.8%
• Black Protestant 678 0.4%

Health insured

92.6%

±0.8 pp

Uninsured

7.4%

±0.8 pp

16th of 58

With a disability

14.2%

±0.9 pp

24th of 58

Bachelor's or higher

17.9%

±1.1 pp

−19.2 pp vs CA · 49th of 58

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

9.5%

90% interval 8.6%–10.4% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Madera County Superior Court

Judges

10 (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

Madera

Traffic fatalities

33

28.14 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

26