Jennings County, Indiana

• White (non-Hispanic) 25,565 92.8%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 957 3.5%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 96 0.3%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 125 0.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 686 2.5%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 40 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 93 0.3%

• Under 18 6,377 23.1%
• 18–24 2,077 7.5%
• 25–44 6,826 24.8%
• 45–64 7,464 27.1%
• 65 and over 4,818 17.5%

Median household income

$65,766

90% interval $58,779–$72,753

−$6,192 vs IN · 69th of 92

Below poverty line

13.1%

90% interval 10.7%–15.5%

+1.0 pp vs IN · 29th of 92

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.2%

−0.26 pp vs. state

County GDP

$959.7M

0.18% of state

Avg. annual pay

$50,244

Establishments

471

• Manufacturing 2,076 26.2%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,672 21.1%
• Education & health services 1,488 18.8%
• Construction 911 11.5%
• Leisure & hospitality 487 6.2%
• Public administration 476 6.0%
• Professional & business services 424 5.4%
• Natural resources & mining 136 1.7%
• Information 18 0.2%
• Financial activities 5 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 97.2% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

78.8%

+8.2 pp vs IN · 37th of 92

Median gross rent

$988

−$74 vs IN · 21st of 92

Owner-occupied

8,621

Renter-occupied

2,323

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 66% 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, $69,831/yr) pays 3.2× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $21,887/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 17 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 9,273 78.5%
• Democratic 2,328 19.7%
• Other / third-party 208 1.8%

• Spanish 619 2.4%
• German or other West Germanic 148 0.6%
• Chinese 85 0.3%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 18 0.1%

Households

10,944

Family households

7,620

69.6% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,947

25.6% of families

Single-mother families

572

7.5% of families

Veterans

1,507

7.1% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 4,070 14.7%
• Mainline Protestant 2,855 10.3%
• Catholic 1,551 5.6%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 481 1.7%

Health insured

90.9%

±2.5 pp

Uninsured

9.1%

±2.5 pp

13th of 92

With a disability

18.7%

±1.7 pp

21st of 92

Bachelor's or higher

14.8%

±2.3 pp

−14.7 pp vs IN · 80th of 92

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.7%

90% interval 7.7%–9.7% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Jennings 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

Vernon

Traffic fatalities

9

42.48 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

7