Jackson County, Indiana

• White (non-Hispanic) 37,101 79.5%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6,707 14.4%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 269 0.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 1,038 2.2%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,342 2.9%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 203 0.4%

• Under 18 12,051 25.8%
• 18–24 3,724 8.0%
• 25–44 11,997 25.7%
• 45–64 11,346 24.3%
• 65 and over 7,542 16.2%

Median household income

$72,024

90% interval $63,971–$80,077

+$66 vs IN · 38th of 92

Below poverty line

11.3%

90% interval 9.4%–13.2%

−0.8 pp vs IN · 47th of 92

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.0%

−0.44 pp vs. state

County GDP

$3.6B

0.69% of state

Avg. annual pay

$59,968

Establishments

1,050

• Manufacturing 6,240 28.2%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 5,418 24.5%
• Education & health services 3,921 17.7%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,511 6.8%
• Professional & business services 1,393 6.3%
• Public administration 1,003 4.5%
• Construction 953 4.3%
• Natural resources & mining 646 2.9%
• Financial activities 566 2.6%
• Other services 370 1.7%
• Information 118 0.5%

Home ownership

73.2%

+2.6 pp vs IN · 70th of 92

Median gross rent

$1,004

−$58 vs IN · 20th of 92

Owner-occupied

13,272

Renter-occupied

4,866

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 70% 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 (Manufacturing, $75,537/yr) pays 3.6× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $21,156/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 21 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 14,323 76.8%
• Democratic 4,015 21.5%
• Other / third-party 315 1.7%

• Spanish 4,462 10.2%
• German or other West Germanic 95 0.2%
• Vietnamese 60 0.1%
• Tagalog 45 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 15 0.0%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 14 0.0%

Households

18,138

Family households

12,145

67.0% of households

Married couples w/ children

3,668

30.2% of families

Single-mother families

875

7.2% of families

Veterans

2,184

6.3% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 19,024 41.0%
• Mainline Protestant 3,395 7.3%
• Catholic 2,500 5.4%
• Black Protestant 252 0.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 201 0.4%

Health insured

91.5%

±2 pp

Uninsured

8.5%

±2 pp

16th of 92

With a disability

14.4%

±1.1 pp

58th of 92

Bachelor's or higher

20.3%

±2 pp

−9.2 pp vs IN · 44th of 92

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

9.2%

90% interval 8.2%–10.2% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Jackson Circuit Court

Judges

2 (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

Brownstown

Traffic fatalities

7

20.23 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

7