Citrus County, Florida

• White (non-Hispanic) 138,526 85.3%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 11,303 7.0%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 2,772 1.7%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 2,180 1.3%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 6,625 4.1%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 351 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 69 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 646 0.4%

• Under 18 23,936 14.7%
• 18–24 8,555 5.3%
• 25–44 28,265 17.4%
• 45–64 42,445 26.1%
• 65 and over 59,271 36.5%

Median household income

$59,737

90% interval $56,545–$62,929

−$17,950 vs FL · 46th of 67

Below poverty line

13.5%

90% interval 11.5%–15.5%

+1.4 pp vs FL · 33rd of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

6.7%

+2.23 pp vs. state

County GDP

$7.0B

0.4% of state

Avg. annual pay

$50,429

Establishments

3,688

• Education & health services 10,135 28.7%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 7,421 21.0%
• Leisure & hospitality 5,534 15.7%
• Professional & business services 3,599 10.2%
• Construction 3,073 8.7%
• Public administration 1,924 5.5%
• Financial activities 1,366 3.9%
• Other services 1,172 3.3%
• Manufacturing 606 1.7%
• Information 212 0.6%
• Natural resources & mining 191 0.5%
• Unclassified 23 0.1%

Home ownership

85.2%

+17.6 pp vs FL · 3rd of 67

Median gross rent

$1,107

−$562 vs FL · 41st of 67

Owner-occupied

60,758

Renter-occupied

10,533

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 65% 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, $78,629/yr) pays 2.9× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $26,764/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Small-business scale

  Average establishment employs only 9.6 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

• Republican 71,356 72.6%
• Democratic 26,276 26.7%
• Other / third-party 601 0.6%

• Spanish 5,947 3.8%
• German or other West Germanic 743 0.5%
• Tagalog 708 0.5%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 474 0.3%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 290 0.2%
• Chinese 229 0.1%
• Vietnamese 162 0.1%
• Arabic 121 0.1%
• Korean 11 0.0%

Households

71,291

Family households

45,316

63.6% of households

Married couples w/ children

6,646

14.7% of families

Single-mother families

2,117

4.7% of families

Veterans

17,659

12.8% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 26,910 17.5%
• Evangelical Protestant 21,489 14.0%
• Mainline Protestant 4,239 2.8%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 3,434 2.2%
• Black Protestant 764 0.5%
• Orthodox 412 0.3%

Health insured

89.6%

±0.9 pp

Uninsured

10.4%

±0.9 pp

44th of 67

With a disability

21.5%

±1 pp

7th of 67

Bachelor's or higher

20.6%

±1.1 pp

−13.5 pp vs FL · 42nd of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

13.7%

90% interval 12.4%–15.0% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

5th Judicial Circuit Court

Judges

33 (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

Brooksville, Bushnell, Inverness, Ocala, Tavares

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

32

23.1 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

30