Wayne County, Indiana

• White (non-Hispanic) 56,893 85.7%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2,630 4.0%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 2,504 3.8%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 602 0.9%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 3,350 5.0%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 18 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 4 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 396 0.6%

• Under 18 15,017 22.6%
• 18–24 6,032 9.1%
• 25–44 15,377 23.2%
• 45–64 16,870 25.4%
• 65 and over 13,101 19.7%

Median household income

$53,395

90% interval $49,241–$57,549

−$18,563 vs IN · 91st of 92

Below poverty line

18.3%

90% interval 15.7%–20.9%

+6.2 pp vs IN · 3rd of 92

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.5%

+0.05 pp vs. state

County GDP

$3.8B

0.73% of state

Avg. annual pay

$52,873

Establishments

1,506

• Education & health services 9,983 34.0%
• Manufacturing 5,633 19.2%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 4,949 16.8%
• Leisure & hospitality 3,097 10.5%
• Professional & business services 1,694 5.8%
• Public administration 1,039 3.5%
• Financial activities 974 3.3%
• Construction 903 3.1%
• Other services 718 2.4%
• Information 215 0.7%
• Natural resources & mining 175 0.6%

Home ownership

69.2%

−1.4 pp vs IN · 83rd of 92

Median gross rent

$815

−$247 vs IN · 69th of 92

Owner-occupied

18,673

Renter-occupied

8,302

• 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 (Financial activities, $73,091/yr) pays 3.5× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $21,100/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 20 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 17,526 65.4%
• Democratic 8,828 32.9%
• Other / third-party 443 1.7%

• Spanish 2,030 3.3%
• German or other West Germanic 1,027 1.6%
• Chinese 176 0.3%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 110 0.2%
• Vietnamese 52 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 30 0.0%
• Tagalog 21 0.0%
• Korean 13 0.0%
• Arabic 4 0.0%

Households

26,975

Family households

16,923

62.7% of households

Married couples w/ children

4,215

24.9% of families

Single-mother families

1,873

11.1% of families

Veterans

4,109

8% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 12,581 18.9%
• Mainline Protestant 5,553 8.3%
• Catholic 4,269 6.4%
• Black Protestant 1,100 1.7%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 775 1.2%

Health insured

89.2%

±1.7 pp

Uninsured

10.8%

±1.7 pp

12th of 92

With a disability

19.7%

±1.2 pp

14th of 92

Bachelor's or higher

20.5%

±1.5 pp

−9.0 pp vs IN · 39th of 92

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

11.1%

90% interval 9.9%–12.3% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Wayne Circuit Court

Judges

5 (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

Richmond

Traffic fatalities

4

7.79 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

4