Sedgwick County, Kansas

• White (non-Hispanic) 342,872 64.9%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 87,159 16.5%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 40,074 7.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 22,093 4.2%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 30,670 5.8%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 2,284 0.4%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 380 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 2,694 0.5%

• Under 18 131,601 24.9%
• 18–24 49,842 9.4%
• 25–44 142,473 27.0%
• 45–64 120,533 22.8%
• 65 and over 83,777 15.9%

Median household income

$71,044

90% interval $69,209–$72,879

−$4,358 vs KS · 31st of 105

Below poverty line

12.5%

90% interval 11.3%–13.7%

+1.6 pp vs KS · 34th of 105

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.2%

+0.32 pp vs. state

County GDP

$41.5B

18.01% of state

Avg. annual pay

$63,114

Establishments

14,038

• Education & health services 61,772 23.2%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 47,955 18.0%
• Manufacturing 46,948 17.7%
• Professional & business services 31,794 12.0%
• Leisure & hospitality 29,761 11.2%
• Financial activities 11,293 4.2%
• Public administration 10,308 3.9%
• Construction 69 0.0%
• Information 48 0.0%
• Other services 17 0.0%

The sectors listed cover 90.3% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

63.1%

−4.1 pp vs KS · 97th of 105

Median gross rent

$998

−$62 vs KS · 13th of 105

Owner-occupied

130,395

Renter-occupied

76,373

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 59% 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 (Professional & business services, $86,020/yr) pays 3.8× the lowest (Construction, $22,777/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 19 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 120,118 56.1%
• Democratic 90,506 42.3%
• Other / third-party 3,528 1.6%

• Spanish 50,249 10.2%
• Vietnamese 7,411 1.5%
• Arabic 2,812 0.6%
• Chinese 1,457 0.3%
• Tagalog 1,427 0.3%
• German or other West Germanic 1,182 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 695 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 387 0.1%
• Korean 337 0.1%

Households

206,768

Family households

129,739

62.7% of households

Married couples w/ children

36,752

28.3% of families

Single-mother families

14,589

11.2% of families

Veterans

26,943

6.9% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 103,463 19.8%
• Catholic 72,361 13.8%
• Mainline Protestant 30,054 5.7%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 17,846 3.4%
• Black Protestant 16,018 3.1%
• Orthodox 1,250 0.2%

Health insured

89.2%

±0.5 pp

Uninsured

10.8%

±0.5 pp

24th of 105

With a disability

14.5%

±0.4 pp

69th of 105

Bachelor's or higher

32.1%

±0.7 pp

−3.5 pp vs KS · 12th of 105

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

12.1%

90% interval 11.4%–12.8% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

18th Judicial District Court

Judges

28 (District Court judges per district (general civil + criminal jurisdiction); District Magistrate Judges (limited jurisdiction: limited civil, traffic, misdemeanors) separate. Vintage 2026 kscourts.gov; counts cross-checked against K.S.A. § 20-301a.)

Court seats

Wichita

Traffic fatalities

61

15.38 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

57