Wyandotte County, Kansas

• White (non-Hispanic) 61,036 36.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 57,135 34.1%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 30,308 18.1%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 8,739 5.2%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 8,608 5.1%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 459 0.3%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 344 0.2%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 1,025 0.6%

• Under 18 45,938 27.4%
• 18–24 15,401 9.2%
• 25–44 46,398 27.7%
• 45–64 37,583 22.4%
• 65 and over 22,334 13.3%

Median household income

$64,054

90% interval $60,369–$67,739

−$11,348 vs KS · 66th of 105

Below poverty line

15.0%

90% interval 12.4%–17.6%

+4.1 pp vs KS · 7th of 105

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.7%

+0.91 pp vs. state

County GDP

$15.5B

6.73% of state

Avg. annual pay

$68,868

Establishments

3,930

• Education & health services 26,474 28.3%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 25,380 27.1%
• Manufacturing 10,218 10.9%
• Professional & business services 9,278 9.9%
• Leisure & hospitality 8,187 8.7%
• Construction 5,607 6.0%
• Public administration 3,339 3.6%
• Financial activities 2,756 2.9%
• Other services 1,901 2.0%
• Information 451 0.5%
• Natural resources & mining 60 0.1%

Home ownership

62.0%

−5.2 pp vs KS · 99th of 105

Median gross rent

$1,122

+$62 vs KS · 3rd of 105

Owner-occupied

38,150

Renter-occupied

23,412

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 66% 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 (Construction, $91,061/yr) pays 2.9× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $31,138/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 24 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.

• Democratic 30,938 61.1%
• Republican 18,867 37.3%
• Other / third-party 797 1.6%

• Spanish 39,936 25.7%
• Vietnamese 449 0.3%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 331 0.2%
• Tagalog 244 0.2%
• German or other West Germanic 237 0.2%
• Chinese 230 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 229 0.1%
• Arabic 126 0.1%
• Korean 105 0.1%

Households

61,562

Family households

39,649

64.4% of households

Married couples w/ children

10,490

26.5% of families

Single-mother families

5,478

13.8% of families

Veterans

6,390

5.3% of civilians 18+

• Black Protestant 25,622 15.1%
• Catholic 25,471 15.0%
• Evangelical Protestant 23,879 14.1%
• Mainline Protestant 5,434 3.2%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 3,461 2.0%
• Orthodox 625 0.4%

Health insured

83.0%

±0.9 pp

Uninsured

17.0%

±0.9 pp

4th of 105

With a disability

13.6%

±0.7 pp

79th of 105

Bachelor's or higher

21.2%

±1.1 pp

−14.4 pp vs KS · 80th of 105

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

16.0%

90% interval 14.7%–17.3% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

29th Judicial District Court

Judges

12 (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

Kansas City

Traffic fatalities

21

17.25 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

20