Henry County, Indiana

• White (non-Hispanic) 45,101 92.1%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,113 2.3%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 1,099 2.2%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 238 0.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,288 2.6%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 32 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 99 0.2%

• Under 18 9,904 20.2%
• 18–24 3,845 7.9%
• 25–44 12,266 25.0%
• 45–64 13,367 27.3%
• 65 and over 9,588 19.6%

Median household income

$67,538

90% interval $62,272–$72,804

−$4,420 vs IN · 58th of 92

Below poverty line

14.5%

90% interval 12.0%–17.0%

+2.4 pp vs IN · 16th of 92

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.3%

−0.12 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.0B

0.39% of state

Avg. annual pay

$50,740

Establishments

924

• Education & health services 3,713 26.6%
• Manufacturing 3,267 23.4%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 2,415 17.3%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,258 9.0%
• Professional & business services 879 6.3%
• Public administration 728 5.2%
• Construction 636 4.6%
• Other services 453 3.2%
• Financial activities 343 2.5%
• Natural resources & mining 161 1.2%
• Information 112 0.8%

Home ownership

76.2%

+5.6 pp vs IN · 52nd of 92

Median gross rent

$820

−$242 vs IN · 68th of 92

Owner-occupied

14,203

Renter-occupied

4,439

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 67% 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, $69,365/yr) pays 3.2× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $21,708/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 15,033 73.0%
• Democratic 5,208 25.3%
• Other / third-party 351 1.7%

• Spanish 730 1.6%
• German or other West Germanic 88 0.2%
• Tagalog 47 0.1%
• Chinese 46 0.1%
• Arabic 32 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 19 0.0%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 13 0.0%
• Vietnamese 4 0.0%

Households

18,642

Family households

11,863

63.6% of households

Married couples w/ children

2,677

22.6% of families

Single-mother families

1,147

9.7% of families

Veterans

2,952

7.6% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 10,272 21.0%
• Mainline Protestant 2,852 5.8%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 576 1.2%
• Catholic 416 0.9%
• Black Protestant 202 0.4%

Health insured

94.3%

±1 pp

Uninsured

5.7%

±1 pp

59th of 92

With a disability

20.3%

±1.5 pp

8th of 92

Bachelor's or higher

17.5%

±1.5 pp

−12.0 pp vs IN · 62nd of 92

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

7.6%

90% interval 6.8%–8.4% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Henry 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

New Castle

Traffic fatalities

6

15.36 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

6