Martin County, Indiana

• White (non-Hispanic) 9,303 94.6%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 142 1.4%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 35 0.4%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 12 0.1%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 295 3.0%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 2 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 41 0.4%

• Under 18 2,139 21.8%
• 18–24 809 8.2%
• 25–44 2,229 22.7%
• 45–64 2,590 26.3%
• 65 and over 2,063 21.0%

Median household income

$69,890

90% interval $62,199–$77,581

−$2,068 vs IN · 48th of 92

Below poverty line

12.2%

90% interval 9.6%–14.8%

+0.1 pp vs IN · 37th of 92

Unemployment (12-mo)

2.9%

−0.52 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.6B

0.31% of state

Avg. annual pay

$84,017

Establishments

296

• Public administration 4,602 56.5%
• Professional & business services 1,543 19.0%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 544 6.7%
• Manufacturing 419 5.1%
• Education & health services 394 4.8%
• Leisure & hospitality 263 3.2%
• Other services 71 0.9%
• Information 13 0.2%

The sectors listed cover 96.4% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

78.5%

+7.9 pp vs IN · 39th of 92

Median gross rent

$697

−$365 vs IN · 90th of 92

Owner-occupied

3,065

Renter-occupied

839

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 82% 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 (Public administration, $101,406/yr) pays 5.7× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $17,641/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 28 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 3,961 79.4%
• Democratic 933 18.7%
• Other / third-party 93 1.9%

• German or other West Germanic 59 0.6%
• Spanish 52 0.6%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 10 0.1%
• Tagalog 7 0.1%
• Korean 4 0.0%
• Chinese 1 0.0%

Households

3,904

Family households

2,433

62.3% of households

Married couples w/ children

601

24.7% of families

Single-mother families

161

6.6% of families

Veterans

755

9.9% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 1,877 19.1%
• Evangelical Protestant 1,233 12.6%
• Mainline Protestant 1,012 10.3%

Health insured

92.3%

±2.7 pp

Uninsured

7.7%

±2.7 pp

24th of 92

With a disability

17.7%

±2.3 pp

31st of 92

Bachelor's or higher

13.3%

±2.6 pp

−16.2 pp vs IN · 87th of 92

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.6%

90% interval 7.6%–9.6% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Martin Circuit Court

Judges

1 (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

Shoals

Traffic fatalities

1

13 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

1