Baker County, Florida

• White (non-Hispanic) 22,049 77.6%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,155 4.1%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 3,111 10.9%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 234 0.8%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,880 6.6%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 1 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%

• Under 18 6,895 24.3%
• 18–24 2,515 8.8%
• 25–44 7,526 26.5%
• 45–64 7,159 25.2%
• 65 and over 4,335 15.2%

Median household income

$78,227

90% interval $72,708–$83,746

+$540 vs FL · 21st of 67

Below poverty line

13.0%

90% interval 9.9%–16.1%

+0.9 pp vs FL · 35th of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.9%

+0.36 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.1B

0.06% of state

Avg. annual pay

$47,566

Establishments

528

• Education & health services 2,426 32.5%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 2,360 31.6%
• Public administration 691 9.2%
• Leisure & hospitality 638 8.5%
• Construction 531 7.1%
• Professional & business services 252 3.4%
• Other services 180 2.4%
• Financial activities 146 2.0%
• Natural resources & mining 15 0.2%

The sectors listed cover 96.9% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

85.1%

+17.5 pp vs FL · 4th of 67

Median gross rent

$1,302

−$367 vs FL · 34th of 67

Owner-occupied

7,799

Renter-occupied

1,366

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 73% 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.

• Compressed wage spread

  Highest-paid sector pays only 2.4× the lowest ($57,683 vs $24,144/yr), a relatively flat local wage distribution.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 14 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 12,926 86.3%
• Democratic 1,982 13.2%
• Other / third-party 69 0.5%

• Spanish 596 2.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 87 0.3%
• Tagalog 70 0.3%
• Arabic 15 0.1%
• Korean 11 0.0%

Households

9,165

Family households

6,774

73.9% of households

Married couples w/ children

2,587

38.2% of families

Single-mother families

439

6.5% of families

Veterans

1,433

6.7% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 7,189 25.4%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 696 2.5%
• Catholic 639 2.3%
• Black Protestant 540 1.9%
• Mainline Protestant 326 1.2%

Health insured

88.2%

±2.8 pp

Uninsured

11.8%

±2.8 pp

29th of 67

With a disability

14.0%

±2 pp

49th of 67

Bachelor's or higher

17.8%

±3.7 pp

−16.3 pp vs FL · 45th of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

11.0%

90% interval 9.8%–12.2% · 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

9

41.79 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

6