Putnam County, Indiana

• White (non-Hispanic) 33,773 90.6%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 839 2.3%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 1,226 3.3%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 489 1.3%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 816 2.2%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 33 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 104 0.3%

• Under 18 7,209 19.3%
• 18–24 4,624 12.4%
• 25–44 9,608 25.8%
• 45–64 9,371 25.1%
• 65 and over 6,468 17.3%

Median household income

$79,859

90% interval $74,570–$85,148

+$7,901 vs IN · 14th of 92

Below poverty line

10.9%

90% interval 8.4%–13.4%

−1.2 pp vs IN · 52nd of 92

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.2%

−0.25 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.5B

0.28% of state

Avg. annual pay

$52,996

Establishments

773

• Trade, transportation & utilities 3,273 26.1%
• Education & health services 3,033 24.1%
• Manufacturing 2,289 18.2%
• Public administration 976 7.8%
• Leisure & hospitality 968 7.7%
• Construction 583 4.6%
• Professional & business services 555 4.4%
• Financial activities 326 2.6%
• Other services 237 1.9%
• Natural resources & mining 187 1.5%
• Information 136 1.1%

Home ownership

75.4%

+4.8 pp vs IN · 58th of 92

Median gross rent

$884

−$178 vs IN · 42nd of 92

Owner-occupied

10,663

Renter-occupied

3,479

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 68% 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 (Information, $75,216/yr) pays 3.7× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $20,200/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 16 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 12,566 75.1%
• Democratic 3,871 23.1%
• Other / third-party 294 1.8%

• Spanish 600 1.7%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 155 0.4%
• Chinese 64 0.2%
• German or other West Germanic 63 0.2%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 57 0.2%
• Tagalog 48 0.1%
• Vietnamese 30 0.1%
• Arabic 25 0.1%
• Korean 13 0.0%

Households

14,142

Family households

9,789

69.2% of households

Married couples w/ children

2,256

23.0% of families

Single-mother families

692

7.1% of families

Veterans

2,525

8.4% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 5,104 13.9%
• Mainline Protestant 3,881 10.6%
• Catholic 760 2.1%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 686 1.9%
• Black Protestant 180 0.5%

Health insured

95.4%

±1 pp

Uninsured

4.6%

±1 pp

81st of 92

With a disability

15.1%

±1.5 pp

54th of 92

Bachelor's or higher

20.2%

±1.9 pp

−9.3 pp vs IN · 46th of 92

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.2%

90% interval 7.3%–9.1% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Putnam Circuit Court

Judges

3 (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

Greencastle

Traffic fatalities

6

19.95 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

6