Pottawattamie County, Iowa

• White (non-Hispanic) 78,988 84.5%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 8,536 9.1%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 1,717 1.8%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 800 0.9%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 2,764 3.0%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 196 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 154 0.2%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 269 0.3%

• Under 18 21,407 22.9%
• 18–24 7,957 8.5%
• 25–44 23,176 24.8%
• 45–64 23,376 25.0%
• 65 and over 17,508 18.7%

Median household income

$73,799

90% interval $68,818–$78,780

−$1,824 vs IA · 43rd of 99

Below poverty line

13.9%

90% interval 12.0%–15.8%

+2.7 pp vs IA · 13th of 99

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.7%

+0.33 pp vs. state

County GDP

$6.3B

2.36% of state

Avg. annual pay

$57,962

Establishments

2,728

• Trade, transportation & utilities 9,918 23.7%
• Education & health services 9,370 22.4%
• Leisure & hospitality 5,916 14.2%
• Manufacturing 5,627 13.5%
• Professional & business services 3,437 8.2%
• Construction 2,370 5.7%
• Public administration 1,803 4.3%
• Financial activities 1,392 3.3%
• Other services 801 1.9%
• Information 703 1.7%
• Natural resources & mining 244 0.6%

The sectors listed cover 99.5% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

69.9%

−1.8 pp vs IA · 87th of 99

Median gross rent

$1,018

+$46 vs IA · 5th of 99

Owner-occupied

26,311

Renter-occupied

11,331

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 60% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Information, $142,334/yr) pays 4.9× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $29,063/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 26,335 59.3%
• Democratic 17,468 39.3%
• Other / third-party 608 1.4%

• Spanish 5,007 5.7%
• Vietnamese 184 0.2%
• Tagalog 163 0.2%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 145 0.2%
• Chinese 138 0.2%
• German or other West Germanic 60 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 32 0.0%
• Arabic 20 0.0%
• Korean 15 0.0%

Households

37,642

Family households

23,902

63.5% of households

Married couples w/ children

6,156

25.8% of families

Single-mother families

2,681

11.2% of families

Veterans

6,038

8.4% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 10,129 10.8%
• Mainline Protestant 9,664 10.3%
• Catholic 9,561 10.2%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,528 1.6%
• Orthodox 152 0.2%
• Black Protestant 50 0.1%

Health insured

95.0%

±0.6 pp

Uninsured

5.0%

±0.6 pp

47th of 99

With a disability

15.7%

±0.9 pp

23rd of 99

Bachelor's or higher

23.6%

±1.2 pp

−7.8 pp vs IA · 38th of 99

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

6.4%

90% interval 5.7%–7.1% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

4th Judicial District Court

Judges

6 (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

Atlantic, Audubon, Clarinda, Council Bluffs, Glenwood, Harlan, Logan, Red Oak, Sidney

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

9

12.5 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

9