Alachua County, Florida

• White (non-Hispanic) 164,433 57.6%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 35,896 12.6%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 54,201 19.0%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 17,238 6.0%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 11,678 4.1%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 164 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 50 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 1,832 0.6%

• Under 18 50,780 17.8%
• 18–24 60,376 21.1%
• 25–44 74,965 26.3%
• 45–64 55,726 19.5%
• 65 and over 43,645 15.3%

Median household income

$65,127

90% interval $61,929–$68,325

−$12,560 vs FL · 37th of 67

Below poverty line

22.9%

90% interval 21.3%–24.5%

+10.8 pp vs FL · 2nd of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.3%

+0.81 pp vs. state

County GDP

$20.9B

1.21% of state

Avg. annual pay

$66,043

Establishments

8,144

• Education & health services 59,571 42.3%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 21,543 15.3%
• Leisure & hospitality 15,828 11.2%
• Professional & business services 14,008 9.9%
• Public administration 7,121 5.1%
• Construction 5,911 4.2%
• Financial activities 5,786 4.1%
• Other services 3,335 2.4%
• Information 184 0.1%
• Natural resources & mining 58 0.0%

The sectors listed cover 94.7% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

54.1%

−13.5 pp vs FL · 65th of 67

Median gross rent

$1,339

−$330 vs FL · 32nd of 67

Owner-occupied

63,185

Renter-occupied

53,601

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 69% of the county workforce. Most panelists likely share employer relationships within these sectors, surface those connections early in voir dire before any institutional-defendant or sector-specific framing.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $79,522/yr) pays 2.5× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $31,313/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 17 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Democratic 81,578 59.7%
• Republican 52,939 38.8%
• Other / third-party 2,031 1.5%

• Spanish 21,704 8.0%
• Chinese 2,908 1.1%
• Tagalog 2,113 0.8%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 1,962 0.7%
• German or other West Germanic 1,383 0.5%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 1,283 0.5%
• Korean 1,070 0.4%
• Arabic 899 0.3%
• Vietnamese 794 0.3%

Households

116,786

Family households

60,068

51.4% of households

Married couples w/ children

15,907

26.5% of families

Single-mother families

6,499

10.8% of families

Veterans

14,408

6.1% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 68,683 24.7%
• Catholic 27,395 9.8%
• Mainline Protestant 16,882 6.1%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 10,513 3.8%
• Black Protestant 5,824 2.1%
• Orthodox 130 0.0%

Health insured

92.6%

±0.7 pp

Uninsured

7.4%

±0.7 pp

62nd of 67

With a disability

12.1%

±0.7 pp

59th of 67

Bachelor's or higher

48.8%

±1.4 pp

+14.7 pp vs FL · 3rd of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

10.3%

90% interval 9.4%–11.2% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

8th Judicial Circuit Court

Judges

17 (Circuit Court judges per circuit (general civil + felony criminal jurisdiction); County Court judges (limited jurisdiction: claims ≤ $50,000, misdemeanors, traffic) separate. Vintage 2026 flcourts.gov; statutory judgeships are reauthorized annually by the Florida Supreme Court's certification of need under Fla. Stat. § 26.031 and may shift by ±1-2 between sessions. Counts for smaller rural circuits (3rd, 16th) are statutory minimums per § 26.031.)

Court seats

Bronson, Gainesville, Lake Butler, Macclenny, Starke, Trenton

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

50

21.3 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

45