Tuolumne County, California

• White (non-Hispanic) 42,487 78.0%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 7,398 13.6%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 971 1.8%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 803 1.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 2,075 3.8%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 332 0.6%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 161 0.3%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 271 0.5%

• Under 18 9,305 17.1%
• 18–24 3,518 6.5%
• 25–44 12,807 23.5%
• 45–64 13,529 24.8%
• 65 and over 15,339 28.1%

Median household income

$78,639

90% interval $72,034–$85,244

−$21,491 vs CA · 30th of 58

Below poverty line

12.7%

90% interval 10.2%–15.2%

+0.9 pp vs CA · 32nd of 58

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.4%

+0.04 pp vs. state

County GDP

$3.3B

0.08% of state

Avg. annual pay

$60,585

Establishments

1,879

• Education & health services 4,472 24.3%
• Leisure & hospitality 4,021 21.9%
• Public administration 2,911 15.8%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 2,765 15.0%
• Professional & business services 1,294 7.0%
• Construction 886 4.8%
• Other services 461 2.5%
• Financial activities 411 2.2%
• Information 14 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 93.7% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

73.9%

+18.0 pp vs CA · 10th of 58

Median gross rent

$1,302

−$734 vs CA · 42nd of 58

Owner-occupied

16,771

Renter-occupied

5,919

• 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 1.9× the lowest ($75,844 vs $39,834/yr), a relatively flat local wage distribution.

• Small-business scale

  Average establishment employs only 9.8 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

• Republican 17,210 59.7%
• Democratic 10,909 37.9%
• Other / third-party 691 2.4%

• Spanish 2,405 4.6%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 248 0.5%
• Tagalog 127 0.2%
• Chinese 122 0.2%
• German or other West Germanic 100 0.2%
• Korean 67 0.1%
• Vietnamese 46 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 27 0.1%

Households

22,690

Family households

13,463

59.3% of households

Married couples w/ children

2,821

21.0% of families

Single-mother families

908

6.7% of families

Veterans

4,345

9.6% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 8,782 15.8%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,377 4.3%
• Catholic 1,654 3.0%
• Mainline Protestant 498 0.9%
• Orthodox 35 0.1%

Health insured

94.7%

±0.9 pp

Uninsured

5.3%

±0.9 pp

40th of 58

With a disability

21.2%

±1.4 pp

3rd of 58

Bachelor's or higher

24.6%

±2.1 pp

−12.5 pp vs CA · 33rd of 58

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

4.8%

90% interval 4.2%–5.4% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Tuolumne County Superior Court

Judges

4 (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

Sonora

Traffic fatalities

11

24.34 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

8