Wright County, Iowa

• White (non-Hispanic) 9,662 75.5%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2,547 19.9%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 56 0.4%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 58 0.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 286 2.2%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 8 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 174 1.4%

• Under 18 3,329 26.0%
• 18–24 894 7.0%
• 25–44 2,898 22.7%
• 45–64 2,843 22.2%
• 65 and over 2,827 22.1%

Median household income

$69,241

90% interval $61,237–$77,245

−$6,382 vs IA · 70th of 99

Below poverty line

10.8%

90% interval 8.5%–13.1%

−0.4 pp vs IA · 53rd of 99

Unemployment (12-mo)

2.6%

−0.72 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.2B

0.47% of state

Avg. annual pay

$61,116

Establishments

460

• Education & health services 1,695 26.8%
• Manufacturing 1,574 24.9%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 947 15.0%
• Natural resources & mining 879 13.9%
• Leisure & hospitality 271 4.3%
• Public administration 259 4.1%
• Professional & business services 204 3.2%
• Construction 182 2.9%
• Financial activities 159 2.5%
• Other services 84 1.3%
• Information 26 0.4%

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

Home ownership

77.0%

+5.3 pp vs IA · 47th of 99

Median gross rent

$790

−$182 vs IA · 62nd of 99

Owner-occupied

4,122

Renter-occupied

1,231

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 67% 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, $77,826/yr) pays 5.2× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $14,975/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 14 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 3,853 67.5%
• Democratic 1,770 31.0%
• Other / third-party 83 1.5%

• Spanish 1,591 13.3%
• German or other West Germanic 40 0.3%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 4 0.0%
• Tagalog 1 0.0%

Households

5,353

Family households

3,614

67.5% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,019

28.2% of families

Single-mother families

280

7.7% of families

Veterans

776

8.2% of civilians 18+

• Mainline Protestant 3,407 26.3%
• Evangelical Protestant 1,417 10.9%
• Catholic 1,345 10.4%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 127 1.0%

Health insured

94.2%

±1.5 pp

Uninsured

5.8%

±1.5 pp

33rd of 99

With a disability

13.8%

±1.9 pp

47th of 99

Bachelor's or higher

24.9%

±3 pp

−6.5 pp vs IA · 28th of 99

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

7.0%

90% interval 6.2%–7.8% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

2nd Judicial District Court

Judges

16 (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

Allison, Boone, Carroll, Charles City, Clarion, Dakota City, Eldora, Forest City, Fort Dodge, Garner, Hampton, Jefferson, Marshalltown, Mason City, Nevada, Northwood, Osage, Pocahontas, Rockwell City, Sac City, Waverly, Webster City

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

1

10.57 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

1