Parke County, Indiana

• White (non-Hispanic) 15,468 94.3%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 125 0.8%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 261 1.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 539 3.3%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 6 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 7 0.0%

• Under 18 3,651 22.3%
• 18–24 1,181 7.2%
• 25–44 3,964 24.2%
• 45–64 4,240 25.8%
• 65 and over 3,370 20.5%

Median household income

$66,511

90% interval $59,345–$73,677

−$5,447 vs IN · 67th of 92

Below poverty line

13.9%

90% interval 11.1%–16.7%

+1.8 pp vs IN · 20th of 92

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.7%

+0.28 pp vs. state

County GDP

$533.8M

0.1% of state

Avg. annual pay

$44,154

Establishments

326

• Education & health services 691 19.6%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 656 18.6%
• Public administration 506 14.4%
• Manufacturing 416 11.8%
• Leisure & hospitality 355 10.1%
• Professional & business services 354 10.0%
• Financial activities 195 5.5%
• Information 11 0.3%

The sectors listed cover 90.3% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

82.4%

+11.8 pp vs IN · 9th of 92

Median gross rent

$704

−$358 vs IN · 88th of 92

Owner-occupied

5,067

Renter-occupied

1,080

• Diversified

  Top three sectors employ 53% of the workforce, a relatively diversified local economy. Expect mixed employer backgrounds on the panel rather than concentration in any one institution or industry.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $68,521/yr) pays 4.2× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $16,294/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 11 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 5,158 77.5%
• Democratic 1,371 20.6%
• Other / third-party 124 1.9%

• German or other West Germanic 892 5.8%
• Spanish 115 0.7%
• Arabic 6 0.0%

Households

6,147

Family households

4,159

67.7% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,109

26.7% of families

Single-mother families

207

5.0% of families

Veterans

1,058

8.3% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 3,750 23.2%
• Mainline Protestant 1,337 8.3%
• Catholic 121 0.7%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 3 0.0%

Health insured

85.1%

±2.7 pp

Uninsured

14.9%

±2.7 pp

4th of 92

With a disability

15.7%

±1.9 pp

44th of 92

Bachelor's or higher

15.4%

±2.5 pp

−14.1 pp vs IN · 77th of 92

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

13.5%

90% interval 12.0%–15.0% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Parke 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

Rockville

Traffic fatalities

4

31.36 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

4