Clarke County, Georgia

• White (non-Hispanic) 70,120 54.1%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 15,269 11.8%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 33,135 25.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 5,371 4.1%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 4,982 3.8%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 219 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 20 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 493 0.4%

• Under 18 21,685 16.7%
• 18–24 33,310 25.7%
• 25–44 35,092 27.1%
• 45–64 23,322 18.0%
• 65 and over 16,200 12.5%

Median household income

$54,739

90% interval $50,018–$59,460

−$25,173 vs GA · 96th of 159

Below poverty line

23.5%

90% interval 20.4%–26.6%

+10.7 pp vs GA · 27th of 159

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.2%

−0.27 pp vs. state

County GDP

$10.8B

1.23% of state

Avg. annual pay

$59,548

Establishments

4,002

• Education & health services 30,534 41.3%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 12,709 17.2%
• Leisure & hospitality 9,371 12.7%
• Manufacturing 5,664 7.7%
• Professional & business services 5,474 7.4%
• Public administration 3,332 4.5%
• Financial activities 2,170 2.9%
• Other services 1,701 2.3%
• Information 80 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 96.0% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

41.4%

−24.3 pp vs GA · 158th of 159

Median gross rent

$1,219

−$174 vs GA · 26th of 159

Owner-occupied

22,563

Renter-occupied

31,891

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 71% 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, $84,521/yr) pays 3.6× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $23,175/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 18 workers, typical of an institutional-employer economy where large hospitals, plants, schools, and government agencies dominate. Expect many panelists to share an employer rather than work for themselves.

• Democratic 36,297 68.6%
• Republican 16,049 30.3%
• Other / third-party 541 1.0%

• Spanish 11,415 9.2%
• Chinese 1,167 0.9%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 580 0.5%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 549 0.4%
• German or other West Germanic 545 0.4%
• Korean 521 0.4%
• Arabic 308 0.2%
• Tagalog 163 0.1%
• Vietnamese 137 0.1%

Households

54,454

Family households

24,959

45.8% of households

Married couples w/ children

4,811

19.3% of families

Single-mother families

3,579

14.3% of families

Veterans

4,071

3.8% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 17,195 13.4%
• Catholic 13,654 10.6%
• Mainline Protestant 12,760 9.9%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 5,390 4.2%
• Black Protestant 4,838 3.8%

Health insured

88.8%

±1 pp

Uninsured

11.2%

±1 pp

114th of 159

With a disability

12.1%

±0.9 pp

140th of 159

Bachelor's or higher

47.4%

+12.5 pp vs GA · 6th of 159

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

15.0%

90% interval 13.6%–16.4% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Western Judicial Circuit Superior Court

Judges

4 (Superior Court judges per circuit (general civil + felony criminal jurisdiction); State Court + Magistrate Court judges (limited jurisdiction) separate. O.C.G.A. § 15-6-1 map effective Jan 1, 2025; statewide total 252 Superior Court judgeships per O.C.G.A. § 15-6-2 allocations.)

Court seats

Athens, Watkinsville

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

6

5.56 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

6