Tazewell County, Illinois

• White (non-Hispanic) 119,731 91.9%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3,503 2.7%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 2,068 1.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 1,283 1.0%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 3,307 2.5%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 137 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 22 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 239 0.2%

• Under 18 28,584 21.9%
• 18–24 9,616 7.4%
• 25–44 32,733 25.1%
• 45–64 33,475 25.7%
• 65 and over 25,882 19.9%

Median household income

$78,573

90% interval $73,632–$83,514

−$4,754 vs IL · 25th of 102

Below poverty line

8.3%

90% interval 6.6%–10.0%

−3.2 pp vs IL · 87th of 102

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.7%

−0.12 pp vs. state

County GDP

$7.8B

0.68% of state

Avg. annual pay

$57,455

Establishments

2,549

• Trade, transportation & utilities 11,986 25.7%
• Education & health services 9,023 19.3%
• Leisure & hospitality 6,552 14.0%
• Manufacturing 6,233 13.3%
• Professional & business services 3,423 7.3%
• Financial activities 1,893 4.1%
• Public administration 1,849 4.0%
• Information 109 0.2%

The sectors listed cover 87.9% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

78.4%

+11.3 pp vs IL · 39th of 102

Median gross rent

$909

−$365 vs IL · 27th of 102

Owner-occupied

42,349

Renter-occupied

11,702

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 59% 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 (Professional & business services, $80,435/yr) pays 3.2× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $24,757/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 18 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 42,451 62.5%
• Democratic 24,325 35.8%
• Other / third-party 1,190 1.8%

• Spanish 1,410 1.1%
• German or other West Germanic 294 0.2%
• Tagalog 196 0.2%
• Chinese 192 0.2%
• Korean 141 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 109 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 79 0.1%
• Vietnamese 60 0.0%
• Arabic 40 0.0%

Households

54,051

Family households

33,459

61.9% of households

Married couples w/ children

9,531

28.5% of families

Single-mother families

2,591

7.7% of families

Veterans

7,061

7% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 29,702 22.6%
• Mainline Protestant 12,461 9.5%
• Catholic 10,804 8.2%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,103 1.6%
• Black Protestant 1,052 0.8%

Health insured

94.9%

±0.8 pp

Uninsured

5.1%

±0.8 pp

52nd of 102

With a disability

12.5%

±0.6 pp

89th of 102

Bachelor's or higher

28.4%

±1.2 pp

−9.4 pp vs IL · 21st of 102

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

5.4%

90% interval 4.8%–6.0% · 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

16

15.73 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

16