Grundy County, Illinois

• White (non-Hispanic) 43,879 82.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6,368 12.0%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 1,213 2.3%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 301 0.6%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,295 2.4%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 29 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 134 0.3%

• Under 18 12,939 24.3%
• 18–24 4,685 8.8%
• 25–44 13,786 25.9%
• 45–64 13,778 25.9%
• 65 and over 8,031 15.1%

Median household income

$96,937

90% interval $90,518–$103,356

+$13,610 vs IL · 9th of 102

Below poverty line

5.8%

90% interval 4.3%–7.3%

−5.7 pp vs IL · 99th of 102

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.7%

−0.17 pp vs. state

County GDP

$6.0B

0.53% of state

Avg. annual pay

$71,627

Establishments

1,201

• Trade, transportation & utilities 9,151 39.9%
• Education & health services 5,203 22.7%
• Construction 1,857 8.1%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,852 8.1%
• Professional & business services 1,401 6.1%
• Financial activities 639 2.8%
• Public administration 22 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 87.7% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

74.4%

+7.3 pp vs IL · 67th of 102

Median gross rent

$1,177

−$97 vs IL · 8th of 102

Owner-occupied

15,319

Renter-occupied

5,276

• 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 (Construction, $107,197/yr) pays 5.0× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $21,493/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 19 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 16,997 64.0%
• Democratic 9,143 34.5%
• Other / third-party 399 1.5%

• Spanish 3,329 6.6%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 150 0.3%
• Tagalog 131 0.3%
• German or other West Germanic 104 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 101 0.2%
• Arabic 96 0.2%
• Vietnamese 16 0.0%
• Chinese 15 0.0%

Households

20,595

Family households

13,983

67.9% of households

Married couples w/ children

4,785

34.2% of families

Single-mother families

1,038

7.4% of families

Veterans

2,854

7.1% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 9,922 18.9%
• Evangelical Protestant 4,493 8.6%
• Mainline Protestant 3,697 7.0%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 877 1.7%

Health insured

96.6%

±0.6 pp

Uninsured

3.4%

±0.6 pp

91st of 102

With a disability

9.7%

±1 pp

99th of 102

Bachelor's or higher

23.6%

±1.8 pp

−14.2 pp vs IL · 36th of 102

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

4.7%

90% interval 4.2%–5.2% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

13th Judicial Circuit Court

Judges

10 (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

Morris, Ottawa, Princeton

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

9

22.34 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

9