Johnson County, Iowa

• White (non-Hispanic) 117,191 74.8%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 10,554 6.7%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 11,930 7.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 8,819 5.6%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 7,139 4.6%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 116 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 31 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 859 0.5%

• Under 18 30,276 19.3%
• 18–24 32,529 20.8%
• 25–44 42,680 27.2%
• 45–64 30,320 19.4%
• 65 and over 20,834 13.3%

Median household income

$77,124

90% interval $71,742–$82,506

+$1,501 vs IA · 31st of 99

Below poverty line

17.7%

90% interval 16.3%–19.1%

+6.5 pp vs IA · 2nd of 99

Unemployment (12-mo)

2.6%

−0.69 pp vs. state

County GDP

$12.6B

4.76% of state

Avg. annual pay

$66,505

Establishments

5,131

• Education & health services 14,865 17.4%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 14,257 16.7%
• Leisure & hospitality 9,461 11.0%
• Professional & business services 5,948 6.9%
• Manufacturing 4,967 5.8%
• Public administration 3,127 3.7%
• Construction 2,720 3.2%
• Financial activities 2,591 3.0%
• Other services 1,987 2.3%
• Information 562 0.7%
• Natural resources & mining 235 0.3%

The sectors listed cover 70.9% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

59.4%

−12.3 pp vs IA · 98th of 99

Median gross rent

$1,122

+$150 vs IA · 3rd of 99

Owner-occupied

37,605

Renter-occupied

25,736

• Diversified

  Top three sectors employ 45% of the workforce, a relatively diversified local economy. Expect mixed employer backgrounds on the panel rather than concentration in any one institution or industry.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Information, $92,167/yr) pays 4.1× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $22,460/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 17 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Democratic 58,846 68.4%
• Republican 26,087 30.3%
• Other / third-party 1,135 1.3%

• Spanish 6,349 4.3%
• Arabic 2,671 1.8%
• Chinese 2,282 1.5%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 2,209 1.5%
• German or other West Germanic 1,110 0.7%
• Vietnamese 855 0.6%
• Korean 850 0.6%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 662 0.4%
• Tagalog 79 0.1%

Households

63,341

Family households

32,667

51.6% of households

Married couples w/ children

11,040

33.8% of families

Single-mother families

2,505

7.7% of families

Veterans

4,922

3.9% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 17,855 11.7%
• Mainline Protestant 12,145 7.9%
• Evangelical Protestant 9,300 6.1%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 6,069 4.0%
• Black Protestant 202 0.1%
• Orthodox 120 0.1%

Health insured

95.3%

±0.6 pp

Uninsured

4.7%

±0.6 pp

57th of 99

With a disability

9.9%

±0.6 pp

95th of 99

Bachelor's or higher

55.2%

±1.9 pp

+23.8 pp vs IA · 1st of 99

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

6.0%

90% interval 5.3%–6.7% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

6th 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

Anamosa, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, Marengo, Toledo, Vinton

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

8

6.33 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

8