Vigo County, Indiana

• White (non-Hispanic) 89,082 84.0%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3,411 3.2%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 6,106 5.8%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 2,202 2.1%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 4,716 4.4%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 130 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 53 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 409 0.4%

• Under 18 21,761 20.5%
• 18–24 15,923 15.0%
• 25–44 26,296 24.8%
• 45–64 23,703 22.3%
• 65 and over 18,426 17.4%

Median household income

$57,173

90% interval $52,964–$61,382

−$14,785 vs IN · 89th of 92

Below poverty line

18.3%

90% interval 15.7%–20.9%

+6.2 pp vs IN · 2nd of 92

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.6%

+0.16 pp vs. state

County GDP

$6.6B

1.26% of state

Avg. annual pay

$54,994

Establishments

2,542

• Education & health services 14,518 31.0%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 9,218 19.7%
• Leisure & hospitality 5,906 12.6%
• Manufacturing 5,554 11.8%
• Professional & business services 2,975 6.3%
• Public administration 2,616 5.6%
• Financial activities 1,847 3.9%
• Information 90 0.2%

The sectors listed cover 91.1% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

61.7%

−8.9 pp vs IN · 89th of 92

Median gross rent

$924

−$138 vs IN · 32nd of 92

Owner-occupied

26,162

Renter-occupied

16,237

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 63% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $78,488/yr) pays 3.4× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $23,423/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 18 workers, typical of an institutional-employer economy where large hospitals, plants, schools, and government agencies dominate. Expect many panelists to share an employer rather than work for themselves.

• Republican 23,738 58.1%
• Democratic 16,338 40.0%
• Other / third-party 801 2.0%

• Spanish 2,345 2.3%
• Chinese 458 0.5%
• Tagalog 252 0.3%
• Arabic 186 0.2%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 165 0.2%
• Korean 162 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 129 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 117 0.1%
• Vietnamese 111 0.1%

Households

42,399

Family households

23,794

56.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

5,489

23.1% of families

Single-mother families

2,995

12.6% of families

Veterans

5,992

7.1% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 18,796 17.7%
• Catholic 11,502 10.8%
• Mainline Protestant 5,831 5.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,279 2.1%
• Black Protestant 1,634 1.5%
• Orthodox 260 0.2%

Health insured

92.1%

±1 pp

Uninsured

7.9%

±1 pp

20th of 92

With a disability

18.5%

±1.1 pp

24th of 92

Bachelor's or higher

26.3%

±1.4 pp

−3.2 pp vs IN · 18th of 92

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.4%

90% interval 7.5%–9.3% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Vigo Circuit Court

Judges

7 (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

Terre Haute

Traffic fatalities

11

13.04 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

11