Noble County, Indiana

• White (non-Hispanic) 40,397 85.1%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5,374 11.3%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 156 0.3%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 268 0.6%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,055 2.2%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 17 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 109 0.2%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 119 0.3%

• Under 18 11,557 24.3%
• 18–24 3,871 8.2%
• 25–44 11,565 24.3%
• 45–64 12,382 26.1%
• 65 and over 8,120 17.1%

Median household income

$72,859

90% interval $66,912–$78,806

+$901 vs IN · 33rd of 92

Below poverty line

9.8%

90% interval 7.6%–12.0%

−2.3 pp vs IN · 65th of 92

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.2%

−0.26 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.6B

0.49% of state

Avg. annual pay

$51,828

Establishments

1,005

• Manufacturing 6,976 41.6%
• Education & health services 2,645 15.8%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 2,458 14.7%
• Professional & business services 1,092 6.5%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,064 6.3%
• Construction 667 4.0%
• Public administration 651 3.9%
• Other services 512 3.1%
• Financial activities 371 2.2%
• Natural resources & mining 182 1.1%
• Information 139 0.8%

Home ownership

77.1%

+6.5 pp vs IN · 45th of 92

Median gross rent

$832

−$230 vs IN · 64th of 92

Owner-occupied

14,025

Renter-occupied

4,154

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 72% 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 (Construction, $65,544/yr) pays 3.7× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $17,554/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.

• Republican 14,209 74.9%
• Democratic 4,462 23.5%
• Other / third-party 291 1.5%

• Spanish 4,055 9.1%
• German or other West Germanic 2,127 4.8%
• Arabic 574 1.3%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 61 0.1%
• Tagalog 18 0.0%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 16 0.0%

Households

18,179

Family households

12,776

70.3% of households

Married couples w/ children

4,068

31.8% of families

Single-mother families

1,121

8.8% of families

Veterans

2,282

6.3% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 6,898 14.5%
• Catholic 3,427 7.2%
• Mainline Protestant 2,436 5.1%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 718 1.5%
• Black Protestant 50 0.1%

Health insured

87.4%

±1.5 pp

Uninsured

12.6%

±1.5 pp

8th of 92

With a disability

12.8%

±1.1 pp

76th of 92

Bachelor's or higher

18.8%

±1.9 pp

−10.7 pp vs IN · 56th of 92

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

13.2%

90% interval 11.9%–14.5% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Noble 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

Albion

Traffic fatalities

6

16.7 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

6