Champaign County, Illinois

• White (non-Hispanic) 130,275 62.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 17,249 8.3%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 27,965 13.4%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 23,848 11.4%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 8,479 4.1%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 120 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 43 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 762 0.4%

• Under 18 39,863 19.1%
• 18–24 47,635 22.8%
• 25–44 52,374 25.1%
• 45–64 39,885 19.1%
• 65 and over 28,984 13.9%

Median household income

$64,240

90% interval $60,466–$68,014

−$19,087 vs IL · 78th of 102

Below poverty line

18.8%

90% interval 17.1%–20.5%

+7.3 pp vs IL · 4th of 102

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.5%

−0.4 pp vs. state

County GDP

$15.4B

1.35% of state

Avg. annual pay

$65,778

Establishments

4,122

• Education & health services 22,782 24.0%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 14,951 15.7%
• Leisure & hospitality 11,580 12.2%
• Professional & business services 7,041 7.4%
• Manufacturing 6,058 6.4%
• Financial activities 3,901 4.1%
• Construction 3,665 3.9%
• Public administration 3,547 3.7%
• Other services 2,279 2.4%
• Information 1,856 2.0%
• Natural resources & mining 412 0.4%

The sectors listed cover 82.1% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

54.0%

−13.1 pp vs IL · 101st of 102

Median gross rent

$1,051

−$223 vs IL · 11th of 102

Owner-occupied

46,173

Renter-occupied

39,299

• Diversified

  Top three sectors employ 52% of the workforce, a relatively diversified local economy. Expect mixed employer backgrounds on the panel rather than concentration in any one institution or industry.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Information, $90,247/yr) pays 3.8× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $24,019/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 23 workers, typical of an institutional-employer economy where large hospitals, plants, schools, and government agencies dominate. Expect many panelists to share an employer rather than work for themselves.

• Democratic 54,314 61.3%
• Republican 32,965 37.2%
• Other / third-party 1,348 1.5%

• Spanish 10,750 5.4%
• Chinese 8,006 4.0%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 2,763 1.4%
• Korean 2,187 1.1%
• Tagalog 1,360 0.7%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 1,305 0.7%
• Vietnamese 916 0.5%
• German or other West Germanic 695 0.4%
• Arabic 626 0.3%

Households

85,472

Family households

43,002

50.3% of households

Married couples w/ children

11,916

27.7% of families

Single-mother families

4,521

10.5% of families

Veterans

7,227

4.3% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 33,459 16.3%
• Catholic 23,715 11.5%
• Mainline Protestant 12,692 6.2%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 6,567 3.2%
• Black Protestant 4,830 2.3%
• Orthodox 424 0.2%

Health insured

94.8%

±0.5 pp

Uninsured

5.2%

±0.5 pp

43rd of 102

With a disability

10.2%

±0.6 pp

94th of 102

Bachelor's or higher

46.2%

±1.6 pp

+8.4 pp vs IL · 4th of 102

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

6th Judicial Circuit Court

Judges

22 (Combined Circuit Judge + Associate Judge counts per circuit. Vintage 2024-2025; hand-sourced from per-circuit official court websites and the 2023-2024 Illinois Blue Book (ilsos.gov) judge roster, cross-referenced against the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts directory. Cook County total of ~400 reflects the Circuit Court of Cook County's combined elected Circuit Judges (~257) plus appointed Associate Judges (~145), the largest unified trial court in the United States. Several smaller downstate circuits carry estimates (see source comments).)

Court seats

Clinton, Decatur, Monticello, Sullivan, Tuscola, Urbana

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

10

5.92 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

10