Bartholomew County, Indiana

• White (non-Hispanic) 64,906 77.7%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 7,710 9.2%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 1,534 1.8%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 6,156 7.4%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 2,816 3.4%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 45 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 9 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 360 0.4%

• Under 18 20,102 24.1%
• 18–24 7,021 8.4%
• 25–44 22,951 27.5%
• 45–64 19,509 23.4%
• 65 and over 13,953 16.7%

Median household income

$81,019

90% interval $75,882–$86,156

+$9,061 vs IN · 12th of 92

Below poverty line

8.4%

90% interval 6.6%–10.2%

−3.7 pp vs IN · 80th of 92

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.2%

−0.21 pp vs. state

County GDP

$9.3B

1.79% of state

Avg. annual pay

$75,028

Establishments

2,161

• Manufacturing 18,612 37.6%
• Education & health services 8,964 18.1%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 7,643 15.4%
• Professional & business services 4,391 8.9%
• Leisure & hospitality 3,965 8.0%
• Construction 1,729 3.5%
• Financial activities 1,454 2.9%
• Public administration 1,247 2.5%
• Other services 1,068 2.2%
• Information 299 0.6%
• Natural resources & mining 122 0.2%

Home ownership

69.3%

−1.3 pp vs IN · 82nd of 92

Median gross rent

$1,127

+$65 vs IN · 11th of 92

Owner-occupied

23,123

Renter-occupied

10,236

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 71% 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 (Manufacturing, $105,710/yr) pays 4.4× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $24,157/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 23 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 22,220 62.7%
• Democratic 12,525 35.3%
• Other / third-party 719 2.0%

• Spanish 5,459 7.0%
• Chinese 499 0.6%
• German or other West Germanic 262 0.3%
• Tagalog 215 0.3%
• Vietnamese 182 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 123 0.2%
• Korean 70 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 55 0.1%
• Arabic 27 0.0%

Households

33,359

Family households

21,760

65.2% of households

Married couples w/ children

6,602

30.3% of families

Single-mother families

1,887

8.7% of families

Veterans

3,598

5.7% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 25,485 31.0%
• Mainline Protestant 6,530 7.9%
• Catholic 4,828 5.9%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,320 2.8%
• Black Protestant 100 0.1%

Health insured

94.5%

±0.8 pp

Uninsured

5.5%

±0.8 pp

63rd of 92

With a disability

13.5%

±1.1 pp

71st of 92

Bachelor's or higher

34.1%

±2 pp

+4.6 pp vs IN · 10th of 92

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.6%

90% interval 7.7%–9.5% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Bartholomew Circuit Court

Judges

4 (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

Columbus

Traffic fatalities

9

14.19 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

9