Steuben County, Indiana

• White (non-Hispanic) 31,732 91.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,547 4.5%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 228 0.7%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 232 0.7%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 777 2.2%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 4 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 7 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 199 0.6%

• Under 18 6,830 19.7%
• 18–24 3,863 11.1%
• 25–44 7,208 20.8%
• 45–64 9,232 26.6%
• 65 and over 7,593 21.9%

Median household income

$77,285

90% interval $73,180–$81,390

+$5,327 vs IN · 24th of 92

Below poverty line

9.4%

90% interval 7.2%–11.6%

−2.7 pp vs IN · 69th of 92

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.2%

−0.2 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.0B

0.38% of state

Avg. annual pay

$50,576

Establishments

1,044

• Manufacturing 4,997 31.1%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 3,376 21.0%
• Education & health services 2,968 18.4%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,566 9.7%
• Professional & business services 1,047 6.5%
• Public administration 592 3.7%
• Construction 556 3.5%
• Other services 481 3.0%
• Financial activities 267 1.7%
• Information 134 0.8%
• Natural resources & mining 104 0.6%

Home ownership

79.5%

+8.9 pp vs IN · 35th of 92

Median gross rent

$933

−$129 vs IN · 31st of 92

Owner-occupied

11,172

Renter-occupied

2,886

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 70% 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, $70,916/yr) pays 3.6× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $19,587/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• 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 11,487 70.2%
• Democratic 4,598 28.1%
• Other / third-party 269 1.6%

• Spanish 710 2.1%
• German or other West Germanic 127 0.4%
• Tagalog 94 0.3%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 50 0.2%
• Korean 29 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 20 0.1%

Households

14,058

Family households

9,176

65.3% of households

Married couples w/ children

2,143

23.4% of families

Single-mother families

551

6.0% of families

Veterans

2,161

7.7% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 6,213 18.0%
• Catholic 2,818 8.2%
• Black Protestant 1,950 5.7%
• Mainline Protestant 1,833 5.3%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 780 2.3%

Health insured

94.3%

±1.2 pp

Uninsured

5.7%

±1.2 pp

61st of 92

With a disability

15.6%

±1.7 pp

48th of 92

Bachelor's or higher

25.6%

±2.1 pp

−3.9 pp vs IN · 22nd of 92

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.6%

90% interval 7.7%–9.5% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Steuben 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

Angola

Traffic fatalities

6

21.51 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

6