Howard County, Indiana

• White (non-Hispanic) 69,211 82.6%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3,438 4.1%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 6,131 7.3%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 1,176 1.4%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 3,503 4.2%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 12 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 18 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 263 0.3%

• Under 18 19,135 22.8%
• 18–24 6,597 7.9%
• 25–44 20,062 24.0%
• 45–64 21,326 25.5%
• 65 and over 16,632 19.9%

Median household income

$67,297

90% interval $61,357–$73,237

−$4,661 vs IN · 61st of 92

Below poverty line

13.6%

90% interval 11.4%–15.8%

+1.5 pp vs IN · 24th of 92

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.1%

+1.69 pp vs. state

County GDP

$5.5B

1.06% of state

Avg. annual pay

$63,532

Establishments

1,944

• Manufacturing 8,562 24.6%
• Education & health services 8,375 24.1%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 6,238 17.9%
• Leisure & hospitality 4,212 12.1%
• Construction 1,672 4.8%
• Professional & business services 1,592 4.6%
• Public administration 1,295 3.7%
• Other services 1,264 3.6%
• Financial activities 1,199 3.4%
• Information 272 0.8%
• Natural resources & mining 112 0.3%

Home ownership

70.6%

+0.0 pp vs IN · 80th of 92

Median gross rent

$937

−$125 vs IN · 28th of 92

Owner-occupied

25,119

Renter-occupied

10,474

• 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.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Manufacturing, $109,030/yr) pays 5.3× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $20,552/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 18 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 25,871 66.7%
• Democratic 12,197 31.5%
• Other / third-party 710 1.8%

• Spanish 875 1.1%
• German or other West Germanic 404 0.5%
• Vietnamese 298 0.4%
• Chinese 193 0.2%
• Korean 99 0.1%
• Tagalog 54 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 27 0.0%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 19 0.0%
• Arabic 12 0.0%

Households

35,593

Family households

21,022

59.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

5,054

24.0% of families

Single-mother families

2,829

13.5% of families

Veterans

5,164

8% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 26,570 31.8%
• Mainline Protestant 4,562 5.5%
• Black Protestant 3,790 4.5%
• Catholic 3,593 4.3%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,062 1.3%
• Orthodox 45 0.1%

Health insured

94.3%

±0.9 pp

Uninsured

5.7%

±0.9 pp

60th of 92

With a disability

18.3%

±1.1 pp

27th of 92

Bachelor's or higher

20.8%

±1.4 pp

−8.7 pp vs IN · 36th of 92

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

7.3%

90% interval 6.5%–8.1% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Howard 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

Kokomo

Traffic fatalities

7

10.83 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

7