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Jury Pool Profile

Marshall County, Indiana

Republican +43.4 (2024)
County seat
Plymouth
Judicial district
Marshall Circuit Court
Population (July 2025 estimate)
46,599
Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 46,284.

At a glance

Marshall County is a 46,599-person venue. The county population is 88% White (Census race-alone categories). 12% identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race. Median household income is $68,762, $3,196 below the IN state median of $71,958; 20.9% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 15.3% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, most commonly Spanish and German or other West Germanic. The largest employment sector is Manufacturing, at 37.7% of covered employment, average pay $65,921/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.16%, below the 3.42% state average. The county carried the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking 68% to 71% of the vote across the three.

Population
46,284
Median household income
$71,808
Unemployment
3.2%

Who sits on a jury?

Predominantly White

≥70% White (race-alone) and <20% Black. This county: 88% / 1%.

Marshall County has a population of 46,284, with a median age of 39.8. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 87.9%; Black residents 0.6%. Independently, 11.9% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The median household earns $68,762; 20.9% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 12.1% live below the federal poverty line.

Race & ethnicity
  • White (non-Hispanic) 39,314 84.9%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5,506 11.9%
  • Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 261 0.6%
  • Asian (non-Hispanic) 294 0.6%
  • Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 831 1.8%
  • American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 11 0.0%
  • Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 7 0.0%
  • Some other race (non-Hispanic) 60 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Age distribution

Median age 39.8

  • Under 18 11,317 24.5%
  • 18–24 3,912 8.5%
  • 25–44 10,626 23.0%
  • 45–64 11,643 25.2%
  • 65 and over 8,786 19.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Income & poverty
Median household income
$68,762
90% interval $63,520–$74,004
−$3,196 vs IN · 50th of 92
Below poverty line
12.1%
90% interval 10.2%–14.0%
+0.0 pp vs IN · 39th of 92

U.S. Census SAIPE 2024

Economic context

Manufacturing anchored

Largest sector in BLS QCEW, even counting every withheld job toward the other sectors: Manufacturing, about 38% of covered jobs.

Manufacturing is the largest employment sector at 37.7% of covered employment, followed by Education & health services at 19.0%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.16%, below the Indiana state average.

Local economy
Unemployment (12-mo)
3.2%
−0.26 pp vs. state
County GDP
$2.4B
0.46% of state
Avg. annual pay
$54,156
Establishments
1,181

U.S. BLS 2026M07 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2025

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

  • Manufacturing 7,400 37.7%
  • Education & health services 3,731 19.0%
  • Trade, transportation & utilities 2,842 14.5%
  • Leisure & hospitality 1,584 8.1%
  • Professional & business services 1,126 5.7%
  • Other services 709 3.6%
  • Public administration 700 3.6%
  • Information 66 0.3%

The sectors listed cover 92.5% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

BLS QCEW 2025

Housing
Home ownership
76.4%
+5.8 pp vs IN · 50th of 92
Median gross rent
$938
−$124 vs IN · 27th of 92
Owner-occupied
13,561
Renter-occupied
4,197

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Local economy in 3 reads
  • Concentrated

    Top three sectors employ 71% 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, $65,921/yr) pays 3.2× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $20,708/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.

BLS QCEW 2025

Political composition

Consistently strongly Republican

Republican candidate carried this county in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (avg winning share: 70%). 'Strongly' threshold: ≥60% avg.

Marshall County was carried by the Republican candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 70.8% in 2024, 69.5% in 2020, 68.2% in 2016.

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 19,540 votes cast

  • Republican
  • Democratic
Presidential vote share by year
YearRepublicanDemocratic
201668.2%26.6%
202069.5%28.7%
202470.8%27.4%
  • Republican 13,837 70.8%
  • Democratic 5,356 27.4%
  • Other / third-party 347 1.8%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Family-majority, linguistically diverse

Family households are 67% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 15.3% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).

15.3% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, German or other West Germanic, Chinese. Veterans account for 6.2% of the adult civilian population (2,160 individuals).

Languages spoken at home

84.7% speak only English at home

  • Spanish 4,000 9.2%
  • German or other West Germanic 2,336 5.4%
  • Chinese 123 0.3%
  • Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 47 0.1%
  • Vietnamese 26 0.1%
  • Tagalog 21 0.0%
  • French, Haitian, or Cajun 12 0.0%
  • Korean 8 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Household composition
Households
17,758
Family households
11,981
67.5% of households
Married couples w/ children
3,488
29.1% of families
Single-mother families
792
6.6% of families
Veterans
2,160
6.2% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Religious composition

38.4% overall adherence rate

  • Evangelical Protestant 8,185 17.8%
  • Catholic 5,500 11.9%
  • Mainline Protestant 2,943 6.4%
  • Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 600 1.3%
  • Black Protestant 450 1.0%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education
Health insured
87.1%
±1.8 pp
Uninsured
12.9%
±1.8 pp
7th of 92
With a disability
12.9%
±1.1 pp
75th of 92
Bachelor's or higher
20.9%
±1.7 pp
−8.6 pp vs IN · 35th of 92
Uninsured, under 65 (2024)
12.9%
90% interval 11.6%–14.2% · Census SAHIE

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

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Court infrastructure

Court infrastructure
Trial court
Marshall Circuit Court
Judges
4 (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
Plymouth
Court reference
Traffic safety context

Marshall totals, 2024 — the per-100k rate is based on 10 recorded deaths, too few to be statistically reliable

Traffic fatalities
10
28.6 per 100k adults (18+)
Fatal crashes
10

NHTSA FARS 2024

About this profile

This profile aggregates publicly available U.S. government statistics for Marshall County, Indiana to give trial attorneys venue context for jury selection. It describes the general population of the county, not the qualified jury wheel, and is not legal advice or a substitute for the court's juror records.

Sources as of: U.S. Census ACS 2024 · U.S. BLS 2026M07 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2025 · Election results 2024 · NHTSA FARS 2024 · US Religion Census 2020.

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