Kosciusko County, Indiana

• White (non-Hispanic) 68,566 85.2%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 7,818 9.7%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 449 0.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 1,119 1.4%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 2,247 2.8%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 30 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 213 0.3%

• Under 18 18,929 23.5%
• 18–24 7,269 9.0%
• 25–44 19,885 24.7%
• 45–64 19,818 24.6%
• 65 and over 14,541 18.1%

Median household income

$77,464

90% interval $72,303–$82,625

+$5,506 vs IN · 23rd of 92

Below poverty line

9.7%

90% interval 7.9%–11.5%

−2.4 pp vs IN · 66th of 92

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.1%

−0.32 pp vs. state

County GDP

$7.8B

1.51% of state

Avg. annual pay

$59,767

Establishments

2,201

• Manufacturing 12,262 34.3%
• Education & health services 6,230 17.4%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 5,696 15.9%
• Leisure & hospitality 3,154 8.8%
• Professional & business services 2,479 6.9%
• Construction 1,842 5.2%
• Other services 1,479 4.1%
• Financial activities 1,013 2.8%
• Public administration 897 2.5%
• Natural resources & mining 403 1.1%
• Information 304 0.9%

Home ownership

77.0%

+6.4 pp vs IN · 47th of 92

Median gross rent

$1,043

−$19 vs IN · 16th of 92

Owner-occupied

24,583

Renter-occupied

7,351

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 68% 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, $79,028/yr) pays 3.8× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $20,572/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 16 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 26,213 75.2%
• Democratic 7,995 22.9%
• Other / third-party 647 1.9%

• Spanish 4,831 6.4%
• German or other West Germanic 3,451 4.6%
• Chinese 206 0.3%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 154 0.2%
• Tagalog 43 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 36 0.0%
• Vietnamese 19 0.0%
• Korean 16 0.0%
• Arabic 16 0.0%

Households

31,934

Family households

21,536

67.4% of households

Married couples w/ children

6,115

28.4% of families

Single-mother families

1,478

6.9% of families

Veterans

3,976

6.5% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 17,114 21.3%
• Mainline Protestant 4,380 5.5%
• Catholic 4,378 5.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 923 1.2%
• Black Protestant 150 0.2%

Health insured

88.3%

±1.8 pp

Uninsured

11.7%

±1.8 pp

10th of 92

With a disability

13.8%

±1.2 pp

67th of 92

Bachelor's or higher

25.1%

±1.9 pp

−4.4 pp vs IN · 25th of 92

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

12.2%

90% interval 11.0%–13.4% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Kosciusko 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

Warsaw

Traffic fatalities

17

27.64 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

15