Paulding County, Georgia

• White (non-Hispanic) 109,161 61.0%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 15,643 8.7%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 41,273 23.1%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 2,627 1.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 9,234 5.2%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 154 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 196 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 621 0.3%

• Under 18 45,577 25.5%
• 18–24 15,043 8.4%
• 25–44 50,074 28.0%
• 45–64 47,218 26.4%
• 65 and over 20,997 11.7%

Median household income

$95,196

90% interval $89,634–$100,758

+$15,284 vs GA · 11th of 159

Below poverty line

6.6%

90% interval 5.1%–8.1%

−6.2 pp vs GA · 156th of 159

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.3%

−0.19 pp vs. state

County GDP

$5.2B

0.59% of state

Avg. annual pay

$51,568

Establishments

3,016

• Education & health services 8,982 29.1%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 6,910 22.4%
• Leisure & hospitality 4,559 14.8%
• Construction 2,635 8.5%
• Professional & business services 2,587 8.4%
• Public administration 1,555 5.0%
• Manufacturing 1,284 4.2%
• Other services 989 3.2%
• Financial activities 967 3.1%
• Information 244 0.8%
• Unclassified 114 0.4%
• Natural resources & mining 43 0.1%

Home ownership

80.8%

+15.1 pp vs GA · 18th of 159

Median gross rent

$1,772

+$379 vs GA · 5th of 159

Owner-occupied

48,470

Renter-occupied

11,538

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 66% 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, $73,037/yr) pays 3.3× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $22,071/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 10 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 58,769 61.7%
• Democratic 35,802 37.6%
• Other / third-party 625 0.7%

• Spanish 10,728 6.4%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 1,204 0.7%
• Tagalog 578 0.3%
• German or other West Germanic 356 0.2%
• Chinese 273 0.2%
• Korean 163 0.1%
• Vietnamese 87 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 85 0.1%
• Arabic 4 0.0%

Households

60,008

Family households

47,858

79.8% of households

Married couples w/ children

17,039

35.6% of families

Single-mother families

4,565

9.5% of families

Veterans

10,287

7.7% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 22,182 13.2%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 5,602 3.3%
• Catholic 4,024 2.4%
• Mainline Protestant 3,599 2.1%
• Black Protestant 886 0.5%
• Orthodox 180 0.1%

Health insured

89.9%

±1.3 pp

Uninsured

10.1%

±1.3 pp

131st of 159

With a disability

11.7%

±0.9 pp

147th of 159

Bachelor's or higher

29.5%

±1.7 pp

−5.4 pp vs GA · 31st of 159

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

11.8%

90% interval 10.8%–12.8% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Paulding 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

Dallas

Traffic fatalities

16

12 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

16