Owen County, Indiana

• White (non-Hispanic) 20,513 95.0%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 333 1.5%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 180 0.8%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 123 0.6%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 414 1.9%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 4 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 37 0.2%

• Under 18 4,396 20.3%
• 18–24 1,504 7.0%
• 25–44 4,906 22.7%
• 45–64 6,196 28.7%
• 65 and over 4,602 21.3%

Median household income

$68,262

90% interval $61,295–$75,229

−$3,696 vs IN · 54th of 92

Below poverty line

12.2%

90% interval 9.6%–14.8%

+0.1 pp vs IN · 38th of 92

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.3%

−0.12 pp vs. state

County GDP

$760.3M

0.15% of state

Avg. annual pay

$60,124

Establishments

390

• Manufacturing 2,276 43.8%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 758 14.6%
• Education & health services 758 14.6%
• Leisure & hospitality 399 7.7%
• Professional & business services 314 6.0%
• Public administration 273 5.3%
• Other services 114 2.2%
• Information 28 0.5%

The sectors listed cover 94.8% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

81.4%

+10.8 pp vs IN · 19th of 92

Median gross rent

$911

−$151 vs IN · 35th of 92

Owner-occupied

7,012

Renter-occupied

1,606

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 73% 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 (Professional & business services, $92,502/yr) pays 4.8× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $19,088/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 13 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 7,360 74.5%
• Democratic 2,354 23.8%
• Other / third-party 161 1.6%

• Spanish 215 1.1%
• German or other West Germanic 123 0.6%
• Korean 43 0.2%
• Tagalog 33 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 10 0.0%

Households

8,618

Family households

5,740

66.6% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,356

23.6% of families

Single-mother families

364

6.3% of families

Veterans

1,633

9.5% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 3,232 15.2%
• Mainline Protestant 1,466 6.9%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 273 1.3%
• Catholic 200 0.9%

Health insured

93.7%

±1.7 pp

Uninsured

6.3%

±1.7 pp

51st of 92

With a disability

19.7%

±2 pp

12th of 92

Bachelor's or higher

16.8%

±2.3 pp

−12.7 pp vs IN · 66th of 92

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

10.0%

90% interval 8.9%–11.1% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Owen Circuit Court

Judges

2 (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

Spencer

Traffic fatalities

1

5.81 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

1