Crawford County, Illinois

• White (non-Hispanic) 16,711 90.3%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 491 2.7%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 636 3.4%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 45 0.2%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 511 2.8%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 103 0.6%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 14 0.1%

• Under 18 3,746 20.2%
• 18–24 1,380 7.5%
• 25–44 4,757 25.7%
• 45–64 4,969 26.8%
• 65 and over 3,659 19.8%

Median household income

$66,960

90% interval $59,883–$74,037

−$16,367 vs IL · 63rd of 102

Below poverty line

14.5%

90% interval 11.6%–17.4%

+3.0 pp vs IL · 26th of 102

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.0%

−0.81 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.7B

0.14% of state

Avg. annual pay

$66,794

Establishments

421

• Manufacturing 2,030 26.6%
• Education & health services 1,557 20.4%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,138 14.9%
• Leisure & hospitality 668 8.8%
• Professional & business services 502 6.6%
• Construction 478 6.3%
• Public administration 291 3.8%
• Financial activities 248 3.3%
• Other services 162 2.1%
• Natural resources & mining 148 1.9%
• Information 67 0.9%

The sectors listed cover 95.5% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

81.9%

+14.8 pp vs IL · 14th of 102

Median gross rent

$811

−$463 vs IL · 51st of 102

Owner-occupied

6,139

Renter-occupied

1,353

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 62% 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 (Manufacturing, $105,955/yr) pays 6.0× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $17,640/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 18 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 6,727 75.4%
• Democratic 2,048 22.9%
• Other / third-party 152 1.7%

• Spanish 312 1.8%
• German or other West Germanic 110 0.6%
• Tagalog 18 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 16 0.1%
• Vietnamese 10 0.1%
• Arabic 5 0.0%
• Chinese 2 0.0%

Households

7,492

Family households

4,703

62.8% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,498

31.9% of families

Single-mother families

339

7.2% of families

Veterans

1,170

7.9% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 5,127 27.4%
• Mainline Protestant 1,100 5.9%
• Catholic 955 5.1%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 271 1.5%
• Black Protestant 150 0.8%

Health insured

94.7%

±1.3 pp

Uninsured

5.3%

±1.3 pp

39th of 102

With a disability

14.3%

±1.6 pp

68th of 102

Bachelor's or higher

20.6%

±2.5 pp

−17.2 pp vs IL · 57th of 102

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

6.8%

90% interval 6.0%–7.6% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

2nd Judicial Circuit Court

Judges

12 (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

Albion, Benton, Carmi, Elizabethtown, Fairfield, Lawrenceville, McLeansboro, Mount Carmel, Mount Vernon, Olney, Robinson, Shawneetown

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

5

33.86 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

5