Hendricks County, Indiana

• White (non-Hispanic) 141,717 77.3%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 9,546 5.2%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 18,273 10.0%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 6,052 3.3%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 6,828 3.7%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 176 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 752 0.4%

• Under 18 44,976 24.5%
• 18–24 14,573 7.9%
• 25–44 49,812 27.2%
• 45–64 46,397 25.3%
• 65 and over 27,586 15.0%

Median household income

$93,476

90% interval $88,242–$98,710

+$21,518 vs IN · 5th of 92

Below poverty line

5.6%

90% interval 4.5%–6.7%

−6.5 pp vs IN · 91st of 92

Unemployment (12-mo)

2.7%

−0.68 pp vs. state

County GDP

$10.4B

2% of state

Avg. annual pay

$55,214

Establishments

4,472

• Trade, transportation & utilities 33,080 40.6%
• Education & health services 15,522 19.1%
• Leisure & hospitality 8,997 11.0%
• Professional & business services 8,149 10.0%
• Manufacturing 4,130 5.1%
• Construction 4,039 5.0%
• Public administration 2,744 3.4%
• Other services 2,180 2.7%
• Financial activities 2,046 2.5%
• Information 329 0.4%
• Natural resources & mining 234 0.3%

Home ownership

78.2%

+7.6 pp vs IN · 41st of 92

Median gross rent

$1,436

+$374 vs IN · 2nd of 92

Owner-occupied

52,502

Renter-occupied

14,608

• 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.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Construction, $80,942/yr) pays 3.2× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $25,450/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 18 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 49,783 59.9%
• Democratic 31,917 38.4%
• Other / third-party 1,416 1.7%

• Spanish 5,598 3.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 1,371 0.8%
• Chinese 614 0.4%
• Tagalog 527 0.3%
• German or other West Germanic 518 0.3%
• Arabic 410 0.2%
• Vietnamese 403 0.2%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 127 0.1%
• Korean 23 0.0%

Households

67,110

Family households

50,029

74.5% of households

Married couples w/ children

17,664

35.3% of families

Single-mother families

3,755

7.5% of families

Veterans

7,743

5.6% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 35,198 20.1%
• Catholic 15,414 8.8%
• Mainline Protestant 9,261 5.3%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 7,476 4.3%
• Black Protestant 428 0.2%

Health insured

94.8%

±0.8 pp

Uninsured

5.2%

±0.8 pp

70th of 92

With a disability

10.2%

±0.7 pp

90th of 92

Bachelor's or higher

39.5%

±1.6 pp

+10.0 pp vs IN · 5th of 92

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

6.4%

90% interval 5.8%–7.0% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Hendricks 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

Danville

Traffic fatalities

14

10.12 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

12