Livingston County, Illinois

• White (non-Hispanic) 31,191 87.7%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2,070 5.8%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 1,200 3.4%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 198 0.6%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 850 2.4%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 10 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 46 0.1%

• Under 18 7,802 21.9%
• 18–24 2,629 7.4%
• 25–44 8,962 25.2%
• 45–64 9,008 25.3%
• 65 and over 7,164 20.1%

Median household income

$76,043

90% interval $69,808–$82,278

−$7,284 vs IL · 31st of 102

Below poverty line

12.2%

90% interval 10.1%–14.3%

+0.7 pp vs IL · 54th of 102

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.2%

−0.62 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.9B

0.25% of state

Avg. annual pay

$58,719

Establishments

848

• Trade, transportation & utilities 3,727 26.8%
• Education & health services 2,747 19.7%
• Manufacturing 2,710 19.5%
• Leisure & hospitality 851 6.1%
• Construction 742 5.3%
• Public administration 684 4.9%
• Financial activities 550 4.0%
• Natural resources & mining 416 3.0%

The sectors listed cover 89.3% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

74.3%

+7.2 pp vs IL · 69th of 102

Median gross rent

$880

−$394 vs IL · 33rd of 102

Owner-occupied

10,860

Renter-occupied

3,755

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 66% 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 (Manufacturing, $80,758/yr) pays 4.6× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $17,742/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 16 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 11,970 72.4%
• Democratic 4,311 26.1%
• Other / third-party 257 1.6%

• Spanish 983 2.9%
• Tagalog 64 0.2%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 51 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 27 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 14 0.0%
• Arabic 1 0.0%

Households

14,615

Family households

9,697

66.3% of households

Married couples w/ children

2,393

24.7% of families

Single-mother families

1,144

11.8% of families

Veterans

1,940

7% of civilians 18+

• Mainline Protestant 7,369 20.6%
• Evangelical Protestant 4,024 11.2%
• Catholic 3,095 8.6%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 466 1.3%

Health insured

94.8%

±1.1 pp

Uninsured

5.2%

±1.1 pp

45th of 102

With a disability

13.6%

±1.3 pp

80th of 102

Bachelor's or higher

19.0%

±1.7 pp

−18.8 pp vs IL · 72nd of 102

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

6.7%

90% interval 5.9%–7.5% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

11th 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

Bloomington, Eureka, Lincoln, Paxton, Pontiac

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

8

28.82 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

7