Rock Island County, Illinois

• White (non-Hispanic) 96,160 67.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 20,305 14.2%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 15,568 10.9%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 3,770 2.6%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 6,289 4.4%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 92 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 49 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 524 0.4%

• Under 18 32,091 22.5%
• 18–24 12,634 8.9%
• 25–44 34,679 24.3%
• 45–64 34,292 24.0%
• 65 and over 29,061 20.4%

Median household income

$67,335

90% interval $63,595–$71,075

−$15,992 vs IL · 61st of 102

Below poverty line

12.6%

90% interval 10.3%–14.9%

+1.1 pp vs IL · 51st of 102

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.2%

+0.39 pp vs. state

County GDP

$12.6B

1.1% of state

Avg. annual pay

$72,612

Establishments

2,819

• Trade, transportation & utilities 16,702 24.2%
• Education & health services 14,388 20.8%
• Manufacturing 11,028 16.0%
• Professional & business services 8,244 11.9%
• Leisure & hospitality 5,914 8.6%
• Public administration 4,187 6.1%
• Financial activities 2,408 3.5%
• Information 48 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 91.0% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

69.7%

+2.6 pp vs IL · 90th of 102

Median gross rent

$889

−$385 vs IL · 30th of 102

Owner-occupied

43,002

Renter-occupied

18,731

• 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.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Trade, transportation & utilities, $99,590/yr) pays 4.1× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $24,304/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 25 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.

• Democratic 34,126 53.9%
• Republican 28,061 44.4%
• Other / third-party 1,080 1.7%

• Spanish 9,808 7.3%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 2,214 1.6%
• German or other West Germanic 285 0.2%
• Arabic 254 0.2%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 225 0.2%
• Tagalog 168 0.1%
• Chinese 135 0.1%
• Vietnamese 100 0.1%

Households

61,733

Family households

36,778

59.6% of households

Married couples w/ children

8,362

22.7% of families

Single-mother families

4,936

13.4% of families

Veterans

7,839

7.1% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 14,509 10.0%
• Evangelical Protestant 11,602 8.0%
• Mainline Protestant 10,279 7.1%
• Black Protestant 4,978 3.4%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 3,931 2.7%
• Orthodox 420 0.3%

Health insured

93.9%

±0.7 pp

Uninsured

6.1%

±0.7 pp

24th of 102

With a disability

15.4%

±0.8 pp

54th of 102

Bachelor's or higher

24.7%

±1.2 pp

−13.1 pp vs IL · 32nd of 102

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

7.7%

90% interval 6.9%–8.5% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

14th 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

Aledo, Cambridge, Morrison, Rock Island

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

11

9.94 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

11