Delaware County, Indiana

• White (non-Hispanic) 94,643 84.3%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3,657 3.3%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 5,818 5.2%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 1,838 1.6%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 5,658 5.0%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 149 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 16 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 501 0.4%

• Under 18 20,376 18.1%
• 18–24 21,344 19.0%
• 25–44 25,138 22.4%
• 45–64 25,665 22.9%
• 65 and over 19,757 17.6%

Median household income

$55,462

90% interval $51,952–$58,972

−$16,496 vs IN · 90th of 92

Below poverty line

20.5%

90% interval 18.4%–22.6%

+8.4 pp vs IN · 1st of 92

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.8%

+0.42 pp vs. state

County GDP

$5.4B

1.04% of state

Avg. annual pay

$53,167

Establishments

2,384

• Education & health services 15,601 35.2%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 8,345 18.8%
• Leisure & hospitality 5,168 11.7%
• Manufacturing 4,081 9.2%
• Professional & business services 3,980 9.0%
• Financial activities 2,237 5.0%
• Public administration 1,583 3.6%
• Construction 1,509 3.4%
• Other services 1,325 3.0%
• Information 366 0.8%
• Natural resources & mining 138 0.3%

Home ownership

66.5%

−4.1 pp vs IN · 87th of 92

Median gross rent

$906

−$156 vs IN · 36th of 92

Owner-occupied

30,751

Renter-occupied

15,505

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 66% 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.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Construction, $65,859/yr) pays 3.2× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $20,492/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 26,067 57.0%
• Democratic 18,848 41.2%
• Other / third-party 821 1.8%

• Spanish 1,627 1.5%
• Vietnamese 279 0.3%
• Chinese 240 0.2%
• Arabic 239 0.2%
• German or other West Germanic 230 0.2%
• Tagalog 156 0.1%
• Korean 152 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 121 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 108 0.1%

Households

46,256

Family households

26,913

58.2% of households

Married couples w/ children

6,373

23.7% of families

Single-mother families

3,309

12.3% of families

Veterans

5,052

5.5% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 17,421 15.6%
• Mainline Protestant 6,736 6.0%
• Catholic 5,015 4.5%
• Black Protestant 3,148 2.8%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,471 2.2%

Health insured

93.2%

±0.7 pp

Uninsured

6.8%

±0.7 pp

40th of 92

With a disability

19.1%

±0.9 pp

17th of 92

Bachelor's or higher

26.2%

±1.5 pp

−3.3 pp vs IN · 19th of 92

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.8%

90% interval 7.9%–9.7% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Delaware Circuit Court

Judges

6 (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

Muncie

Traffic fatalities

18

19.59 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

17