Dallas County, Iowa

• White (non-Hispanic) 87,326 80.9%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 7,453 6.9%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 3,187 3.0%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 5,263 4.9%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 4,191 3.9%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 25 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 32 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 491 0.5%

• Under 18 28,676 26.6%
• 18–24 8,074 7.5%
• 25–44 32,959 30.5%
• 45–64 24,366 22.6%
• 65 and over 13,893 12.9%

Median household income

$99,683

90% interval $93,564–$105,802

+$24,060 vs IA · 2nd of 99

Below poverty line

5.2%

90% interval 4.3%–6.1%

−6.0 pp vs IA · 99th of 99

Unemployment (12-mo)

2.9%

−0.42 pp vs. state

County GDP

$11.1B

4.18% of state

Avg. annual pay

$78,974

Establishments

3,696

• Financial activities 17,446 30.9%
• Education & health services 11,428 20.3%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 10,105 17.9%
• Leisure & hospitality 6,164 10.9%
• Professional & business services 4,897 8.7%
• Construction 1,860 3.3%
• Information 1,087 1.9%
• Other services 866 1.5%
• Manufacturing 718 1.3%
• Natural resources & mining 663 1.2%
• Public administration 5 0.0%

The sectors listed cover 97.9% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

69.0%

−2.7 pp vs IA · 90th of 99

Median gross rent

$1,311

+$339 vs IA · 1st of 99

Owner-occupied

29,326

Renter-occupied

13,145

• 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.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $127,289/yr) pays 5.0× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $25,648/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 15 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 32,374 51.7%
• Democratic 29,402 46.9%
• Other / third-party 857 1.4%

• Spanish 4,848 4.8%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 1,591 1.6%
• Arabic 934 0.9%
• Chinese 644 0.6%
• German or other West Germanic 521 0.5%
• Vietnamese 364 0.4%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 307 0.3%
• Tagalog 138 0.1%
• Korean 57 0.1%

Households

42,471

Family households

27,541

64.8% of households

Married couples w/ children

11,431

41.5% of families

Single-mother families

1,887

6.9% of families

Veterans

4,323

5.5% of civilians 18+

• Mainline Protestant 25,070 25.2%
• Catholic 8,981 9.0%
• Evangelical Protestant 6,844 6.9%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 5,875 5.9%

Health insured

96.1%

±0.7 pp

Uninsured

3.9%

±0.7 pp

70th of 99

With a disability

7.7%

±0.7 pp

99th of 99

Bachelor's or higher

51.5%

±2.2 pp

+20.1 pp vs IA · 3rd of 99

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

4.1%

90% interval 3.6%–4.6% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

5th Judicial District Court

Judges

27 (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

Adel, Bedford, Chariton, Corning, Corydon, Creston, Des Moines, Greenfield, Guthrie Center, Indianola, Knoxville, Leon, Mount Ayr, Newton, Osceola, Winterset

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

2

2.52 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

2