Hamilton County, Illinois

• White (non-Hispanic) 7,498 94.7%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 57 0.7%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 17 0.2%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 41 0.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 252 3.2%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 13 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 10 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 28 0.4%

• Under 18 1,731 21.9%
• 18–24 567 7.2%
• 25–44 1,794 22.7%
• 45–64 2,008 25.4%
• 65 and over 1,816 22.9%

Median household income

$66,346

90% interval $58,648–$74,044

−$16,981 vs IL · 68th of 102

Below poverty line

10.5%

90% interval 7.7%–13.3%

−1.0 pp vs IL · 66th of 102

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.8%

−0.08 pp vs. state

County GDP

$478.3M

0.04% of state

Avg. annual pay

$54,838

Establishments

207

• Education & health services 572 27.6%
• Natural resources & mining 532 25.7%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 337 16.3%
• Leisure & hospitality 137 6.6%
• Manufacturing 93 4.5%
• Other services 91 4.4%
• Construction 64 3.1%
• Professional & business services 52 2.5%
• Public administration 11 0.5%

The sectors listed cover 91.2% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

76.4%

+9.3 pp vs IL · 55th of 102

Median gross rent

$568

−$706 vs IL · 99th of 102

Owner-occupied

2,587

Renter-occupied

800

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 70% 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 (Natural resources & mining, $93,252/yr) pays 5.1× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $18,286/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 10 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 3,385 81.0%
• Democratic 739 17.7%
• Other / third-party 57 1.4%

• German or other West Germanic 72 1.0%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 35 0.5%
• Spanish 9 0.1%
• Tagalog 8 0.1%

Households

3,387

Family households

2,109

62.3% of households

Married couples w/ children

576

27.3% of families

Single-mother families

125

5.9% of families

Veterans

478

7.7% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 3,577 44.8%
• Catholic 395 4.9%
• Mainline Protestant 158 2.0%
• Black Protestant 76 1.0%

Health insured

92.4%

±2.9 pp

Uninsured

7.6%

±2.9 pp

11th of 102

With a disability

19.2%

±2.8 pp

19th of 102

Bachelor's or higher

21.0%

±4.1 pp

−16.8 pp vs IL · 48th of 102

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

6.6%

90% interval 5.8%–7.4% · 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

1

16.17 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

1