Elkhart County, Indiana

• White (non-Hispanic) 144,748 69.9%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 41,619 20.1%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 9,638 4.7%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 2,011 1.0%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 7,550 3.6%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 327 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 53 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 1,186 0.6%

• Under 18 56,707 27.4%
• 18–24 19,114 9.2%
• 25–44 51,395 24.8%
• 45–64 47,973 23.2%
• 65 and over 31,943 15.4%

Median household income

$71,053

90% interval $67,077–$75,029

−$905 vs IN · 41st of 92

Below poverty line

10.8%

90% interval 9.3%–12.3%

−1.3 pp vs IN · 54th of 92

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.4%

−0.03 pp vs. state

County GDP

$20.6B

3.96% of state

Avg. annual pay

$65,710

Establishments

5,386

• Manufacturing 60,299 47.5%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 19,113 15.1%
• Education & health services 17,290 13.6%
• Professional & business services 8,873 7.0%
• Leisure & hospitality 7,355 5.8%
• Construction 4,557 3.6%
• Financial activities 2,923 2.3%
• Public administration 2,723 2.1%
• Other services 2,631 2.1%
• Information 663 0.5%
• Natural resources & mining 508 0.4%

Home ownership

71.6%

+1.0 pp vs IN · 78th of 92

Median gross rent

$1,047

−$15 vs IN · 15th of 92

Owner-occupied

51,749

Renter-occupied

20,560

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 76% 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 (Professional & business services, $110,777/yr) pays 5.1× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $21,681/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 24 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 45,652 65.5%
• Democratic 23,082 33.1%
• Other / third-party 960 1.4%

• Spanish 29,064 15.1%
• German or other West Germanic 12,185 6.3%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 544 0.3%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 295 0.2%
• Tagalog 231 0.1%
• Chinese 202 0.1%
• Vietnamese 68 0.0%
• Arabic 41 0.0%
• Korean 23 0.0%

Households

72,309

Family households

49,684

68.7% of households

Married couples w/ children

13,901

28.0% of families

Single-mother families

5,259

10.6% of families

Veterans

7,112

4.7% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 55,953 27.0%
• Catholic 17,941 8.7%
• Black Protestant 8,972 4.3%
• Mainline Protestant 8,281 4.0%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 3,546 1.7%
• Orthodox 247 0.1%

Health insured

85.8%

±1 pp

Uninsured

14.2%

±1 pp

5th of 92

With a disability

12.5%

±0.6 pp

80th of 92

Bachelor's or higher

20.1%

±1 pp

−9.4 pp vs IN · 47th of 92

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

13.4%

90% interval 12.3%–14.5% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Elkhart Circuit Court

Judges

7 (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

Goshen

Traffic fatalities

32

21.27 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

29