Floyd County, Indiana

• White (non-Hispanic) 69,005 85.3%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3,453 4.3%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 3,846 4.8%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 1,002 1.2%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 3,303 4.1%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 12 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 32 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 265 0.3%

• Under 18 18,131 22.4%
• 18–24 6,609 8.2%
• 25–44 20,864 25.8%
• 45–64 21,031 26.0%
• 65 and over 14,283 17.7%

Median household income

$76,310

90% interval $70,800–$81,820

+$4,352 vs IN · 29th of 92

Below poverty line

10.2%

90% interval 8.3%–12.1%

−1.9 pp vs IN · 61st of 92

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.3%

−0.1 pp vs. state

County GDP

$4.3B

0.82% of state

Avg. annual pay

$57,272

Establishments

2,138

• Education & health services 10,973 33.2%
• Manufacturing 5,650 17.1%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 4,413 13.4%
• Professional & business services 3,546 10.7%
• Leisure & hospitality 3,178 9.6%
• Public administration 991 3.0%
• Other services 905 2.7%
• Financial activities 58 0.2%
• Information 54 0.2%

The sectors listed cover 90.2% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

73.2%

+2.6 pp vs IN · 69th of 92

Median gross rent

$1,036

−$26 vs IN · 18th of 92

Owner-occupied

23,358

Renter-occupied

8,558

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 64% 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 (Manufacturing, $73,431/yr) pays 3.3× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $22,556/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 15 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Republican 23,408 56.9%
• Democratic 17,025 41.4%
• Other / third-party 711 1.7%

• Spanish 1,494 2.0%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 199 0.3%
• Chinese 189 0.2%
• German or other West Germanic 100 0.1%
• Arabic 52 0.1%
• Vietnamese 43 0.1%
• Tagalog 35 0.0%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 18 0.0%

Households

31,916

Family households

20,618

64.6% of households

Married couples w/ children

5,661

27.5% of families

Single-mother families

1,892

9.2% of families

Veterans

4,114

6.6% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 18,885 23.5%
• Catholic 15,542 19.3%
• Mainline Protestant 5,687 7.1%
• Black Protestant 1,878 2.3%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 691 0.9%

Health insured

95.4%

±0.7 pp

Uninsured

4.6%

±0.7 pp

80th of 92

With a disability

15.7%

±0.9 pp

43rd of 92

Bachelor's or higher

32.9%

±1.8 pp

+3.4 pp vs IN · 12th of 92

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

7.0%

90% interval 6.2%–7.8% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Floyd Circuit Court

Judges

5 (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

New Albany

Traffic fatalities

6

9.56 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

5