DeKalb County, Indiana

• White (non-Hispanic) 40,987 93.6%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,347 3.1%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 46 0.1%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 241 0.6%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,094 2.5%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 9 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 83 0.2%

• Under 18 10,553 24.1%
• 18–24 3,399 7.8%
• 25–44 10,939 25.0%
• 45–64 11,286 25.8%
• 65 and over 7,630 17.4%

Median household income

$81,096

90% interval $76,365–$85,827

+$9,138 vs IN · 11th of 92

Below poverty line

8.9%

90% interval 7.2%–10.6%

−3.2 pp vs IN · 73rd of 92

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.0%

−0.47 pp vs. state

County GDP

$3.4B

0.66% of state

Avg. annual pay

$64,949

Establishments

1,122

• Manufacturing 8,739 40.5%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 4,201 19.5%
• Education & health services 2,685 12.4%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,788 8.3%
• Professional & business services 1,383 6.4%
• Construction 758 3.5%
• Public administration 717 3.3%
• Financial activities 589 2.7%
• Other services 447 2.1%
• Information 144 0.7%
• Natural resources & mining 133 0.6%

Home ownership

82.1%

+11.5 pp vs IN · 14th of 92

Median gross rent

$861

−$201 vs IN · 48th of 92

Owner-occupied

14,029

Renter-occupied

3,067

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 72% 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, $86,229/yr) pays 4.4× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $19,587/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• 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 14,377 72.7%
• Democratic 5,064 25.6%
• Other / third-party 344 1.7%

• German or other West Germanic 408 1.0%
• Spanish 381 0.9%
• Tagalog 53 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 12 0.0%
• Chinese 12 0.0%
• Arabic 7 0.0%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 3 0.0%
• Korean 2 0.0%

Households

17,096

Family households

11,896

69.6% of households

Married couples w/ children

3,322

27.9% of families

Single-mother families

1,154

9.7% of families

Veterans

2,224

6.7% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 8,876 20.5%
• Catholic 2,439 5.6%
• Mainline Protestant 2,395 5.5%
• Black Protestant 1,500 3.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1 0.0%

Health insured

93.5%

±1.2 pp

Uninsured

6.5%

±1.2 pp

49th of 92

With a disability

14.6%

±1.5 pp

57th of 92

Bachelor's or higher

20.2%

±1.6 pp

−9.3 pp vs IN · 45th of 92

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.2%

90% interval 7.3%–9.1% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

DeKalb Circuit Court

Judges

3 (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

Auburn

Traffic fatalities

9

27.06 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

8