Posey County, Indiana

• White (non-Hispanic) 23,413 93.2%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 386 1.5%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 165 0.7%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 85 0.3%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 721 2.9%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 20 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 326 1.3%

• Under 18 5,418 21.6%
• 18–24 1,699 6.8%
• 25–44 5,924 23.6%
• 45–64 6,830 27.2%
• 65 and over 5,245 20.9%

Median household income

$81,600

90% interval $74,890–$88,310

+$9,642 vs IN · 10th of 92

Below poverty line

8.6%

90% interval 6.7%–10.5%

−3.5 pp vs IN · 78th of 92

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.0%

−0.47 pp vs. state

County GDP

$5.9B

1.14% of state

Avg. annual pay

$71,000

Establishments

572

• Manufacturing 2,598 30.2%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,764 20.5%
• Education & health services 1,264 14.7%
• Professional & business services 750 8.7%
• Construction 652 7.6%
• Leisure & hospitality 612 7.1%
• Public administration 433 5.0%
• Other services 226 2.6%
• Financial activities 161 1.9%
• Natural resources & mining 99 1.2%
• Information 42 0.5%

Home ownership

82.3%

+11.7 pp vs IN · 12th of 92

Median gross rent

$782

−$280 vs IN · 75th of 92

Owner-occupied

8,668

Renter-occupied

1,865

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 65% 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 (Manufacturing, $109,755/yr) pays 6.2× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $17,676/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 15 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 9,206 71.0%
• Democratic 3,572 27.5%
• Other / third-party 194 1.5%

• Spanish 120 0.5%
• German or other West Germanic 51 0.2%
• Tagalog 13 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 5 0.0%

Households

10,533

Family households

7,495

71.2% of households

Married couples w/ children

2,057

27.4% of families

Single-mother families

522

7.0% of families

Veterans

1,416

7.2% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 3,893 15.4%
• Catholic 3,487 13.8%
• Mainline Protestant 3,115 12.4%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 504 2.0%
• Black Protestant 432 1.7%

Health insured

96.8%

±0.9 pp

Uninsured

3.2%

±0.9 pp

92nd of 92

With a disability

14.0%

±1.6 pp

64th of 92

Bachelor's or higher

25.2%

±2.5 pp

−4.3 pp vs IN · 24th of 92

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

5.9%

90% interval 5.2%–6.6% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Posey 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

Mount Vernon

Traffic fatalities

4

20.31 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

3