Saline County, Illinois

• White (non-Hispanic) 21,205 91.3%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 502 2.2%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 719 3.1%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 127 0.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 615 2.6%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 22 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 23 0.1%

• Under 18 4,799 20.7%
• 18–24 1,483 6.4%
• 25–44 5,587 24.1%
• 45–64 6,348 27.3%
• 65 and over 4,996 21.5%

Median household income

$55,561

90% interval $49,876–$61,246

−$27,766 vs IL · 97th of 102

Below poverty line

18.0%

90% interval 14.7%–21.3%

+6.5 pp vs IL · 6th of 102

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.7%

−0.15 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.1B

0.1% of state

Avg. annual pay

$49,732

Establishments

506

• Education & health services 3,031 37.0%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,858 22.7%
• Public administration 655 8.0%
• Leisure & hospitality 542 6.6%
• Financial activities 539 6.6%
• Construction 528 6.4%
• Professional & business services 294 3.6%
• Manufacturing 287 3.5%
• Information 226 2.8%
• Other services 156 1.9%
• Natural resources & mining 44 0.5%

Home ownership

72.5%

+5.4 pp vs IL · 77th of 102

Median gross rent

$726

−$548 vs IL · 86th of 102

Owner-occupied

7,272

Renter-occupied

2,752

• 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 (Construction, $88,893/yr) pays 4.6× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $19,417/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 7,830 73.9%
• Democratic 2,634 24.8%
• Other / third-party 138 1.3%

• Spanish 183 0.8%
• German or other West Germanic 146 0.7%
• Tagalog 31 0.1%
• Vietnamese 24 0.1%
• Chinese 11 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 5 0.0%

Households

10,024

Family households

5,981

59.7% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,444

24.1% of families

Single-mother families

588

9.8% of families

Veterans

1,473

8% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 11,808 49.7%
• Mainline Protestant 1,001 4.2%
• Catholic 400 1.7%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 349 1.5%
• Black Protestant 290 1.2%

Health insured

94.6%

±1.3 pp

Uninsured

5.4%

±1.3 pp

38th of 102

With a disability

23.9%

±1.7 pp

5th of 102

Bachelor's or higher

19.6%

±2.3 pp

−18.2 pp vs IL · 66th of 102

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

7.0%

90% interval 6.2%–7.8% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

1st 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

Cairo, Golconda, Harrisburg, Jonesboro, Marion, Metropolis, Mound City, Murphysboro, Vienna

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

4

21.72 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

4