Hernando County, Florida

• White (non-Hispanic) 149,211 72.1%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 35,111 17.0%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 9,793 4.7%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 2,716 1.3%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 7,692 3.7%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 481 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 223 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 1,791 0.9%

• Under 18 38,353 18.5%
• 18–24 13,504 6.5%
• 25–44 46,116 22.3%
• 45–64 54,449 26.3%
• 65 and over 54,596 26.4%

Median household income

$68,768

90% interval $64,867–$72,669

−$8,919 vs FL · 34th of 67

Below poverty line

10.4%

90% interval 8.6%–12.2%

−1.7 pp vs FL · 53rd of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.5%

+0.95 pp vs. state

County GDP

$7.3B

0.42% of state

Avg. annual pay

$51,904

Establishments

4,649

• Education & health services 13,884 27.5%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 11,857 23.4%
• Leisure & hospitality 7,204 14.2%
• Professional & business services 4,198 8.3%
• Construction 3,573 7.1%
• Manufacturing 2,948 5.8%
• Public administration 2,802 5.5%
• Financial activities 1,728 3.4%
• Other services 1,640 3.2%
• Information 423 0.8%
• Natural resources & mining 292 0.6%
• Unclassified 26 0.1%

Home ownership

82.5%

+14.9 pp vs FL · 10th of 67

Median gross rent

$1,298

−$371 vs FL · 35th of 67

Owner-occupied

68,075

Renter-occupied

14,400

• 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 (Information, $83,553/yr) pays 3.1× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $27,171/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 11 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 75,446 68.2%
• Democratic 34,431 31.1%
• Other / third-party 810 0.7%

• Spanish 20,453 10.3%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 1,174 0.6%
• German or other West Germanic 799 0.4%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 535 0.3%
• Tagalog 362 0.2%
• Chinese 358 0.2%
• Vietnamese 323 0.2%
• Arabic 253 0.1%
• Korean 24 0.0%

Households

82,475

Family households

55,205

66.9% of households

Married couples w/ children

11,367

20.6% of families

Single-mother families

4,601

8.3% of families

Veterans

18,080

10.7% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 40,366 20.8%
• Evangelical Protestant 21,014 10.8%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 5,111 2.6%
• Mainline Protestant 3,784 1.9%
• Black Protestant 961 0.5%
• Orthodox 130 0.1%

Health insured

88.8%

±0.9 pp

Uninsured

11.2%

±0.9 pp

36th of 67

With a disability

19.4%

±0.9 pp

22nd of 67

Bachelor's or higher

21.1%

±1 pp

−13.0 pp vs FL · 41st of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

13.3%

90% interval 12.2%–14.4% · 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

44

26.09 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

42