Coles County, Illinois

• White (non-Hispanic) 41,146 88.0%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,809 3.9%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 1,666 3.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 514 1.1%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,442 3.1%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 14 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 3 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 183 0.4%

• Under 18 8,549 18.3%
• 18–24 7,924 16.9%
• 25–44 11,081 23.7%
• 45–64 10,631 22.7%
• 65 and over 8,592 18.4%

Median household income

$61,313

90% interval $55,863–$66,763

−$22,014 vs IL · 90th of 102

Below poverty line

14.5%

90% interval 11.6%–17.4%

+3.0 pp vs IL · 25th of 102

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.0%

−0.88 pp vs. state

County GDP

$3.5B

0.31% of state

Avg. annual pay

$56,336

Establishments

1,015

• Education & health services 8,629 36.5%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 3,887 16.5%
• Leisure & hospitality 2,594 11.0%
• Professional & business services 2,562 10.8%
• Manufacturing 1,385 5.9%
• Financial activities 848 3.6%
• Construction 743 3.1%
• Public administration 664 2.8%
• Other services 513 2.2%
• Information 322 1.4%
• Natural resources & mining 161 0.7%

The sectors listed cover 94.4% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

60.4%

−6.7 pp vs IL · 99th of 102

Median gross rent

$780

−$494 vs IL · 74th of 102

Owner-occupied

12,574

Renter-occupied

8,250

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 64% 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 (Natural resources & mining, $98,221/yr) pays 4.7× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $20,937/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• 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.

• Republican 13,606 63.4%
• Democratic 7,495 34.9%
• Other / third-party 368 1.7%

• Spanish 1,021 2.3%
• German or other West Germanic 348 0.8%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 92 0.2%
• Chinese 86 0.2%
• Tagalog 51 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 36 0.1%
• Vietnamese 35 0.1%
• Korean 21 0.0%

Households

20,824

Family households

11,538

55.4% of households

Married couples w/ children

2,652

23.0% of families

Single-mother families

1,247

10.8% of families

Veterans

2,171

5.7% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 14,080 30.0%
• Catholic 5,191 11.1%
• Mainline Protestant 2,906 6.2%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 692 1.5%
• Black Protestant 100 0.2%

Health insured

92.9%

±1.1 pp

Uninsured

7.1%

±1.1 pp

16th of 102

With a disability

17.6%

±1.4 pp

31st of 102

Bachelor's or higher

26.9%

±2.2 pp

−10.9 pp vs IL · 24th of 102

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

7.4%

90% interval 6.5%–8.3% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

5th Judicial Circuit Court

Judges

8 (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

Charleston, Danville, Marshall, Paris, Toledo

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

12

31.39 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

10