Allamakee County, Iowa

• White (non-Hispanic) 12,193 86.5%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,289 9.1%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 257 1.8%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 57 0.4%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 281 2.0%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 9 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 6 0.0%

• Under 18 3,448 24.5%
• 18–24 958 6.8%
• 25–44 3,003 21.3%
• 45–64 3,425 24.3%
• 65 and over 3,258 23.1%

Median household income

$71,728

90% interval $65,601–$77,855

−$3,895 vs IA · 54th of 99

Below poverty line

10.5%

90% interval 8.1%–12.9%

−0.7 pp vs IA · 56th of 99

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.2%

+0.84 pp vs. state

County GDP

$780.2M

0.29% of state

Avg. annual pay

$47,930

Establishments

473

• Education & health services 1,112 23.2%
• Manufacturing 1,043 21.7%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,003 20.9%
• Natural resources & mining 312 6.5%
• Public administration 295 6.1%
• Leisure & hospitality 283 5.9%
• Construction 192 4.0%
• Financial activities 180 3.7%
• Other services 159 3.3%
• Professional & business services 135 2.8%
• Information 18 0.4%

The sectors listed cover 98.5% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

79.6%

+7.9 pp vs IA · 26th of 99

Median gross rent

$796

−$176 vs IA · 58th of 99

Owner-occupied

4,734

Renter-occupied

1,216

• 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.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Other services, $62,939/yr) pays 4.4× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $14,323/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• 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 4,857 66.5%
• Democratic 2,350 32.2%
• Other / third-party 96 1.3%

• Spanish 1,058 8.0%
• German or other West Germanic 184 1.4%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 109 0.8%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 19 0.1%
• Arabic 17 0.1%
• Tagalog 4 0.0%

Households

5,950

Family households

3,703

62.2% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,126

30.4% of families

Single-mother families

117

3.2% of families

Veterans

670

6.3% of civilians 18+

• Mainline Protestant 4,435 31.5%
• Catholic 3,421 24.3%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 721 5.1%
• Evangelical Protestant 336 2.4%

Health insured

93.0%

±1.9 pp

Uninsured

7.0%

±1.9 pp

19th of 99

With a disability

12.4%

±1.5 pp

71st of 99

Bachelor's or higher

22.2%

±2.5 pp

−9.2 pp vs IA · 51st of 99

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

9.1%

90% interval 8.0%–10.2% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

1st Judicial District Court

Judges

14 (District Court judges per Judicial Election District (general civil + felony criminal jurisdiction). District Associate, Associate Juvenile, and Magistrate judges (limited jurisdiction) are separately allocated and not counted here. Vintage 2026 iowacourts.gov directory; counts cross-checked against Iowa Code § 602.6201.)

Court seats

Cresco, Decorah, Dubuque, Elkader, Grundy Center, Independence, Manchester, New Hampton, Waterloo, Waukon, West Union

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

2

18.79 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

2