Jury Pool Profile
Wells County, Indiana
Republican +58 (2024)
- Population
- 28,261
- Median household income
- $69,741
- Unemployment
- 2.9%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 26,355 93.3%
- Black or African American alone 297 1.1%
- Asian alone 61 0.2%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 6 0.0%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 14 0.0%
- Some other race alone 627 2.2%
- Two or more races 901 3.2%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,075 3.8%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 40.2
- Under 18 6,979 24.7%
- 18–24 2,210 7.8%
- 25–44 6,742 23.9%
- 45–64 7,143 25.3%
- 65 and over 5,187 18.4%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 2.9%
- -0.69 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $1.6B
- 0.3% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $50,048
- Establishments
- 706
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Manufacturing 3,120 27.6%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 3,002 26.6%
- Education & health services 2,181 19.3%
- Leisure & hospitality 547 4.8%
- Construction 508 4.5%
- Professional & business services 438 3.9%
- Public administration 420 3.7%
- Other services 417 3.7%
- Financial activities 343 3.0%
- Natural resources & mining 221 2.0%
- Information 96 0.9%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 76.2%
- Median gross rent
- $837
- Owner-occupied
- 8,656
- Renter-occupied
- 2,704
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 14,100 votes cast
- Republican 11,006 78.1%
- Democratic 2,850 20.2%
- Other / third-party 244 1.7%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
97.4% speak only English at home
- Spanish 480 1.8%
- German 87 0.3%
- Other Indo-European 51 0.2%
- Tagalog 28 0.1%
- Slavic languages 19 0.1%
- Other Asian/Pacific 14 0.1%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 11,360
- Family households
- 7,678
- 67.6% of households
- Married w/ children
- 6,144
- Single-mother households
- 586
- Veterans
- 1,368
- 6.4% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
48.9% overall adherence rate
- Evangelical Protestant 9,534 33.8%
- Black Protestant 1,950 6.9%
- Mainline Protestant 1,805 6.4%
- Catholic 300 1.1%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 181 0.6%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 93.4%
- With a disability
- 12.2%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 18.9%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- Wells 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
- Bluffton
Traffic safety context
Indiana statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 2
- 9.4 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 2
NHTSA FARS 2023