Monroe County, Indiana

• White (non-Hispanic) 113,788 80.7%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6,736 4.8%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 4,864 3.5%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 9,618 6.8%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 5,455 3.9%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 44 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 25 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 435 0.3%

• Under 18 22,129 15.7%
• 18–24 35,557 25.2%
• 25–44 35,115 24.9%
• 45–64 27,517 19.5%
• 65 and over 20,647 14.6%

Median household income

$67,457

90% interval $62,675–$72,239

−$4,501 vs IN · 59th of 92

Below poverty line

16.8%

90% interval 14.8%–18.8%

+4.7 pp vs IN · 5th of 92

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.2%

−0.24 pp vs. state

County GDP

$9.3B

1.8% of state

Avg. annual pay

$61,402

Establishments

3,557

• Education & health services 26,026 38.4%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 9,296 13.7%
• Leisure & hospitality 8,388 12.4%
• Manufacturing 8,075 11.9%
• Professional & business services 5,090 7.5%
• Construction 3,010 4.4%
• Financial activities 2,413 3.6%
• Public administration 2,362 3.5%
• Other services 1,942 2.9%
• Information 852 1.3%
• Natural resources & mining 313 0.5%

Home ownership

54.0%

−16.6 pp vs IN · 91st of 92

Median gross rent

$1,193

+$131 vs IN · 7th of 92

Owner-occupied

31,967

Renter-occupied

27,269

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 65% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Professional & business services, $76,321/yr) pays 3.2× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $23,494/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 19 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.

• Democratic 37,213 63.0%
• Republican 21,004 35.5%
• Other / third-party 882 1.5%

• Spanish 4,003 3.0%
• Chinese 2,816 2.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 862 0.6%
• Arabic 735 0.5%
• Korean 594 0.4%
• German or other West Germanic 545 0.4%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 502 0.4%
• Vietnamese 255 0.2%
• Tagalog 217 0.2%

Households

59,236

Family households

29,072

49.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

7,587

26.1% of families

Single-mother families

2,497

8.6% of families

Veterans

5,981

5% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 20,705 14.8%
• Mainline Protestant 6,784 4.9%
• Catholic 5,916 4.2%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 4,752 3.4%
• Black Protestant 950 0.7%
• Orthodox 240 0.2%

Health insured

94.7%

±0.5 pp

Uninsured

5.3%

±0.5 pp

67th of 92

With a disability

12.1%

±0.7 pp

84th of 92

Bachelor's or higher

49.5%

±1.8 pp

+20.0 pp vs IN · 3rd of 92

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.0%

90% interval 7.1%–8.9% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Monroe Circuit Court

Judges

9 (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

Bloomington

Traffic fatalities

9

7.57 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

9