Lawrence County, Indiana

• White (non-Hispanic) 42,097 93.3%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 900 2.0%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 92 0.2%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 250 0.6%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,417 3.1%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 10 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 13 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 323 0.7%

• Under 18 9,564 21.2%
• 18–24 3,370 7.5%
• 25–44 10,537 23.4%
• 45–64 12,384 27.5%
• 65 and over 9,247 20.5%

Median household income

$65,270

90% interval $60,086–$70,454

−$6,688 vs IN · 70th of 92

Below poverty line

12.4%

90% interval 10.2%–14.6%

+0.3 pp vs IN · 34th of 92

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.3%

−0.15 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.8B

0.34% of state

Avg. annual pay

$50,375

Establishments

920

• Education & health services 4,220 30.1%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 2,568 18.3%
• Manufacturing 2,353 16.8%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,258 9.0%
• Professional & business services 977 7.0%
• Construction 772 5.5%
• Public administration 662 4.7%
• Financial activities 459 3.3%
• Other services 387 2.8%
• Natural resources & mining 208 1.5%
• Information 136 1.0%

Home ownership

80.7%

+10.1 pp vs IN · 27th of 92

Median gross rent

$845

−$217 vs IN · 54th of 92

Owner-occupied

15,438

Renter-occupied

3,697

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 65% 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, $81,028/yr) pays 4.2× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $19,425/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• 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 15,830 74.6%
• Democratic 5,010 23.6%
• Other / third-party 369 1.7%

• Spanish 397 0.9%
• German or other West Germanic 63 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 53 0.1%
• Vietnamese 47 0.1%
• Chinese 14 0.0%
• Arabic 13 0.0%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 12 0.0%
• Korean 6 0.0%

Households

19,135

Family households

12,087

63.2% of households

Married couples w/ children

3,262

27.0% of families

Single-mother families

981

8.1% of families

Veterans

3,299

9.3% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 12,424 27.6%
• Mainline Protestant 3,176 7.1%
• Catholic 1,550 3.4%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 635 1.4%
• Black Protestant 150 0.3%

Health insured

93.9%

±1.1 pp

Uninsured

6.1%

±1.1 pp

52nd of 92

With a disability

17.3%

±1.4 pp

34th of 92

Bachelor's or higher

20.4%

±1.8 pp

−9.1 pp vs IN · 40th of 92

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.3%

90% interval 7.4%–9.2% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Lawrence 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

Bedford

Traffic fatalities

8

22.51 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

7