Marshall County, Illinois

• White (non-Hispanic) 10,724 92.1%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 409 3.5%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 47 0.4%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 10 0.1%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 431 3.7%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 8 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 2 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 16 0.1%

• Under 18 2,378 20.4%
• 18–24 755 6.5%
• 25–44 2,589 22.2%
• 45–64 3,125 26.8%
• 65 and over 2,800 24.0%

Median household income

$75,927

90% interval $68,954–$82,900

−$7,400 vs IL · 33rd of 102

Below poverty line

9.2%

90% interval 7.2%–11.2%

−2.3 pp vs IL · 82nd of 102

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.3%

+0.44 pp vs. state

County GDP

$686.6M

0.06% of state

Avg. annual pay

$50,050

Establishments

258

• Manufacturing 811 28.3%
• Education & health services 573 20.0%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 568 19.8%
• Leisure & hospitality 270 9.4%
• Public administration 150 5.2%
• Construction 150 5.2%
• Other services 130 4.5%
• Financial activities 96 3.4%
• Natural resources & mining 44 1.5%
• Professional & business services 43 1.5%
• Information 27 0.9%

Home ownership

79.2%

+12.1 pp vs IL · 34th of 102

Median gross rent

$782

−$492 vs IL · 72nd of 102

Owner-occupied

4,036

Renter-occupied

1,058

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 68% 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 (Financial activities, $80,526/yr) pays 4.7× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $17,148/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 11 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 4,119 67.2%
• Democratic 1,913 31.2%
• Other / third-party 95 1.6%

• Spanish 262 2.4%
• German or other West Germanic 17 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 10 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 4 0.0%
• Tagalog 2 0.0%
• Korean 1 0.0%

Households

5,094

Family households

3,405

66.8% of households

Married couples w/ children

747

21.9% of families

Single-mother families

281

8.3% of families

Veterans

834

9% of civilians 18+

• Mainline Protestant 1,603 13.7%
• Evangelical Protestant 1,452 12.4%
• Catholic 961 8.2%

Health insured

96.5%

±0.8 pp

Uninsured

3.5%

±0.8 pp

89th of 102

With a disability

15.7%

±1.4 pp

49th of 102

Bachelor's or higher

18.0%

±1.9 pp

−19.8 pp vs IL · 83rd of 102

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

6.9%

90% interval 6.1%–7.7% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

10th Judicial Circuit Court

Judges

16 (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

Hennepin, Lacon, Pekin, Peoria, Toulon

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

2

21.58 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

2