Madison County, Illinois

• White (non-Hispanic) 216,149 81.8%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 11,399 4.3%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 20,255 7.7%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 2,243 0.8%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 13,303 5.0%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 329 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 67 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 493 0.2%

• Under 18 56,348 21.3%
• 18–24 23,134 8.8%
• 25–44 67,845 25.7%
• 45–64 67,977 25.7%
• 65 and over 48,934 18.5%

Median household income

$78,648

90% interval $75,105–$82,191

−$4,679 vs IL · 24th of 102

Below poverty line

9.6%

90% interval 8.1%–11.1%

−1.9 pp vs IL · 75th of 102

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.2%

−0.65 pp vs. state

County GDP

$16.6B

1.44% of state

Avg. annual pay

$59,911

Establishments

5,402

• Trade, transportation & utilities 28,258 26.3%
• Education & health services 23,633 22.0%
• Leisure & hospitality 13,238 12.3%
• Manufacturing 10,232 9.5%
• Professional & business services 9,950 9.3%
• Construction 6,817 6.3%
• Financial activities 3,766 3.5%
• Public administration 3,665 3.4%
• Other services 3,555 3.3%
• Information 753 0.7%
• Natural resources & mining 337 0.3%

The sectors listed cover 96.9% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

74.2%

+7.1 pp vs IL · 70th of 102

Median gross rent

$1,024

−$250 vs IL · 16th of 102

Owner-occupied

81,716

Renter-occupied

28,418

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 61% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Manufacturing, $89,360/yr) pays 3.7× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $24,036/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 20 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 73,925 55.8%
• Democratic 56,341 42.5%
• Other / third-party 2,333 1.8%

• Spanish 5,480 2.2%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 446 0.2%
• Tagalog 393 0.2%
• German or other West Germanic 316 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 308 0.1%
• Korean 304 0.1%
• Chinese 153 0.1%
• Arabic 120 0.0%
• Vietnamese 115 0.0%

Households

110,134

Family households

69,017

62.7% of households

Married couples w/ children

18,581

26.9% of families

Single-mother families

6,828

9.9% of families

Veterans

17,114

8.2% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 53,167 20.0%
• Catholic 40,798 15.3%
• Mainline Protestant 20,017 7.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 6,998 2.6%
• Black Protestant 5,634 2.1%
• Orthodox 400 0.2%

Health insured

95.3%

±0.3 pp

Uninsured

4.7%

±0.3 pp

63rd of 102

With a disability

15.8%

±0.7 pp

47th of 102

Bachelor's or higher

31.0%

±1 pp

−6.8 pp vs IL · 19th of 102

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

6.0%

90% interval 5.4%–6.6% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

3rd Judicial Circuit Court

Judges

18 (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

Edwardsville, Greenville

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

39

18.76 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

37