Sutter County, California

• White (non-Hispanic) 40,226 40.7%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 32,532 32.9%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 1,573 1.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 17,277 17.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 5,005 5.1%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 731 0.7%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 362 0.4%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 1,151 1.2%

• Under 18 24,874 25.2%
• 18–24 8,795 8.9%
• 25–44 25,984 26.3%
• 45–64 22,988 23.3%
• 65 and over 16,216 16.4%

Median household income

$74,183

90% interval $66,907–$81,459

−$25,947 vs CA · 35th of 58

Below poverty line

12.6%

90% interval 10.1%–15.1%

+0.8 pp vs CA · 35th of 58

Unemployment (12-mo)

8.6%

+3.22 pp vs. state

County GDP

$5.2B

0.13% of state

Avg. annual pay

$57,092

Establishments

4,262

• Education & health services 9,090 27.5%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 7,937 24.0%
• Natural resources & mining 3,774 11.4%
• Leisure & hospitality 3,410 10.3%
• Professional & business services 2,051 6.2%
• Public administration 1,652 5.0%
• Construction 1,567 4.7%
• Manufacturing 1,338 4.1%
• Financial activities 1,176 3.6%
• Information 17 0.1%
• Other services 17 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 97.0% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

61.3%

+5.4 pp vs CA · 36th of 58

Median gross rent

$1,439

−$597 vs CA · 30th of 58

Owner-occupied

20,417

Renter-occupied

12,875

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 63% 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 (Public administration, $84,381/yr) pays 2.7× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $31,240/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Small-business scale

  Average establishment employs only 7.7 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

• Republican 25,372 64.5%
• Democratic 13,016 33.1%
• Other / third-party 948 2.4%

• Spanish 18,534 20.0%
• Tagalog 746 0.8%
• Vietnamese 187 0.2%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 173 0.2%
• Chinese 134 0.1%
• Arabic 91 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 84 0.1%
• Korean 54 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 41 0.0%

Households

33,292

Family households

24,051

72.2% of households

Married couples w/ children

7,245

30.1% of families

Single-mother families

2,053

8.5% of families

Veterans

4,746

6.5% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 16,833 16.9%
• Catholic 10,789 10.8%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 7,381 7.4%
• Mainline Protestant 1,405 1.4%
• Black Protestant 180 0.2%

Health insured

93.6%

±0.9 pp

Uninsured

6.4%

±0.9 pp

28th of 58

With a disability

15.0%

±1.1 pp

19th of 58

Bachelor's or higher

20.9%

±1.6 pp

−16.2 pp vs CA · 45th 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

Sutter 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

Yuba City

Traffic fatalities

20

27.03 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

16