Appanoose County, Iowa

• White (non-Hispanic) 11,423 93.8%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 249 2.0%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 100 0.8%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 111 0.9%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 298 2.4%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 3 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%

• Under 18 2,626 21.6%
• 18–24 952 7.8%
• 25–44 2,613 21.4%
• 45–64 3,111 25.5%
• 65 and over 2,882 23.7%

Median household income

$57,459

90% interval $51,481–$63,437

−$18,164 vs IA · 97th of 99

Below poverty line

15.8%

90% interval 12.7%–18.9%

+4.6 pp vs IA · 5th of 99

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.6%

+0.28 pp vs. state

County GDP

$518.5M

0.2% of state

Avg. annual pay

$48,340

Establishments

391

• Education & health services 1,117 24.7%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,095 24.2%
• Manufacturing 915 20.2%
• Leisure & hospitality 464 10.3%
• Professional & business services 207 4.6%
• Public administration 181 4.0%
• Financial activities 158 3.5%
• Construction 147 3.3%
• Other services 91 2.0%
• Natural resources & mining 65 1.4%
• Information 50 1.1%

The sectors listed cover 99.3% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

68.8%

−2.9 pp vs IA · 91st of 99

Median gross rent

$784

−$188 vs IA · 64th of 99

Owner-occupied

3,576

Renter-occupied

1,623

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 69% 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, $67,746/yr) pays 3.9× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $17,290/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 12 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 4,704 72.7%
• Democratic 1,686 26.1%
• Other / third-party 76 1.2%

• German or other West Germanic 526 4.6%
• Spanish 122 1.1%
• Tagalog 7 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 1 0.0%

Households

5,199

Family households

3,240

62.3% of households

Married couples w/ children

695

21.5% of families

Single-mother families

285

8.8% of families

Veterans

948

9.9% of civilians 18+

• Mainline Protestant 1,527 12.4%
• Evangelical Protestant 1,469 11.9%
• Catholic 638 5.2%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 334 2.7%

Health insured

91.0%

±3.1 pp

Uninsured

9.0%

±3.1 pp

6th of 99

With a disability

18.0%

±2 pp

3rd of 99

Bachelor's or higher

20.5%

±2.7 pp

−10.9 pp vs IA · 70th of 99

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

9.6%

90% interval 8.4%–10.8% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

8th Judicial District Court

Judges

12 (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

Albia, Bloomfield, Burlington, Centerville, Fairfield, Fort Madison and Keokuk, Keosauqua, Montezuma, Mount Pleasant, Oskaloosa, Ottumwa, Sigourney, Wapello, Washington

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

0

0 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

0