Allen County, Indiana

• White (non-Hispanic) 273,822 69.8%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 35,389 9.0%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 41,126 10.5%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 20,772 5.3%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 18,977 4.8%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 196 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 185 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 1,911 0.5%

• Under 18 99,630 25.4%
• 18–24 35,217 9.0%
• 25–44 105,584 26.9%
• 45–64 90,669 23.1%
• 65 and over 61,278 15.6%

Median household income

$70,889

90% interval $68,650–$73,128

−$1,069 vs IN · 42nd of 92

Below poverty line

12.3%

90% interval 10.9%–13.7%

+0.2 pp vs IN · 35th of 92

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.2%

−0.22 pp vs. state

County GDP

$29.1B

5.6% of state

Avg. annual pay

$62,828

Establishments

10,762

• Education & health services 52,673 26.4%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 40,521 20.3%
• Manufacturing 29,120 14.6%
• Leisure & hospitality 20,012 10.0%
• Professional & business services 19,971 10.0%
• Construction 11,953 6.0%
• Financial activities 10,440 5.2%
• Other services 6,564 3.3%
• Public administration 6,029 3.0%
• Information 1,833 0.9%
• Natural resources & mining 350 0.2%

Home ownership

68.9%

−1.7 pp vs IN · 85th of 92

Median gross rent

$1,021

−$41 vs IN · 19th of 92

Owner-occupied

107,825

Renter-occupied

48,745

• 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 (Financial activities, $87,511/yr) pays 3.7× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $23,729/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 19 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 90,283 55.4%
• Democratic 69,960 42.9%
• Other / third-party 2,736 1.7%

• Spanish 20,316 5.6%
• German or other West Germanic 4,429 1.2%
• Chinese 1,578 0.4%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 1,366 0.4%
• Vietnamese 1,270 0.3%
• Tagalog 1,193 0.3%
• Arabic 988 0.3%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 728 0.2%
• Korean 591 0.2%

Households

156,570

Family households

97,556

62.3% of households

Married couples w/ children

29,009

29.7% of families

Single-mother families

11,653

11.9% of families

Veterans

17,926

6.1% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 96,763 25.1%
• Catholic 52,110 13.5%
• Black Protestant 27,346 7.1%
• Mainline Protestant 22,676 5.9%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 10,485 2.7%
• Orthodox 761 0.2%

Health insured

91.7%

±0.6 pp

Uninsured

8.3%

±0.6 pp

18th of 92

With a disability

12.6%

±0.5 pp

78th of 92

Bachelor's or higher

31.6%

±0.8 pp

+2.1 pp vs IN · 13th of 92

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

9.3%

90% interval 8.6%–10.0% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Allen Circuit Court

Judges

10 (Combined Circuit + Superior Court trial-court judges per county (both have general civil + criminal jurisdiction); vintage 2026 Indiana Office of Judicial Administration Judicial Service Report, cross-checked against courts.in.gov per-county rosters. Counties with a count of 1 operate the Circuit Court only; larger counties add Superior Court judges with concurrent general jurisdiction. Marion County (Indianapolis) is by far the largest single-county bench in Indiana.)

Court seats

Fort Wayne

Traffic fatalities

41

14.01 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

37