Wapello County, Iowa

• White (non-Hispanic) 26,750 75.6%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4,748 13.4%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 1,054 3.0%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 579 1.6%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,313 3.7%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 7 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 857 2.4%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 54 0.2%

• Under 18 8,432 23.8%
• 18–24 2,921 8.3%
• 25–44 8,613 24.4%
• 45–64 8,900 25.2%
• 65 and over 6,496 18.4%

Median household income

$67,370

90% interval $64,306–$70,434

−$8,253 vs IA · 77th of 99

Below poverty line

15.6%

90% interval 13.0%–18.2%

+4.4 pp vs IA · 6th of 99

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.1%

+0.75 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.2B

0.81% of state

Avg. annual pay

$53,838

Establishments

872

• Education & health services 3,920 25.7%
• Manufacturing 3,631 23.8%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 3,252 21.3%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,268 8.3%
• Professional & business services 959 6.3%
• Public administration 614 4.0%

The sectors listed cover 89.5% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

68.4%

−3.3 pp vs IA · 92nd of 99

Median gross rent

$920

−$52 vs IA · 18th of 99

Owner-occupied

9,575

Renter-occupied

4,422

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 71% 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 (Manufacturing, $73,302/yr) pays 4.1× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $17,761/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.

• Republican 9,479 65.1%
• Democratic 4,896 33.6%
• Other / third-party 196 1.3%

• Spanish 3,062 9.2%
• Tagalog 242 0.7%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 191 0.6%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 80 0.2%
• German or other West Germanic 74 0.2%
• Arabic 44 0.1%

Households

13,997

Family households

9,182

65.6% of households

Married couples w/ children

2,469

26.9% of families

Single-mother families

1,073

11.7% of families

Veterans

1,462

5.4% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 5,504 15.5%
• Catholic 2,715 7.7%
• Mainline Protestant 1,247 3.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 644 1.8%
• Black Protestant 270 0.8%

Health insured

92.7%

±1.7 pp

Uninsured

7.3%

±1.7 pp

17th of 99

With a disability

16.1%

±1.2 pp

18th of 99

Bachelor's or higher

19.6%

±2.1 pp

−11.8 pp vs IA · 78th of 99

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.5%

90% interval 7.5%–9.5% · 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

4

14.85 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

4