Bell County, Kentucky

• White (non-Hispanic) 21,769 92.6%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 114 0.5%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 705 3.0%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 61 0.3%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 753 3.2%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 27 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 80 0.3%

• Under 18 5,138 21.9%
• 18–24 1,744 7.4%
• 25–44 5,796 24.7%
• 45–64 6,378 27.1%
• 65 and over 4,453 18.9%

Median household income

$39,209

90% interval $34,562–$43,856

−$25,272 vs KY · 117th of 120

Below poverty line

31.8%

90% interval 25.9%–37.7%

+16.4 pp vs KY · 6th of 120

Unemployment (12-mo)

6.0%

+1.52 pp vs. state

County GDP

$997.4M

0.34% of state

Avg. annual pay

$43,896

Establishments

609

• Education & health services 2,241 26.9%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,895 22.8%
• Manufacturing 1,064 12.8%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,011 12.2%
• Professional & business services 339 4.1%
• Other services 292 3.5%
• Financial activities 273 3.3%
• Public administration 271 3.3%
• Construction 208 2.5%
• Natural resources & mining 173 2.1%
• Information 18 0.2%
• Unclassified 4 0.0%

The sectors listed cover 93.6% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

58.8%

−9.5 pp vs KY · 117th of 120

Median gross rent

$592

−$375 vs KY · 109th of 120

Owner-occupied

5,847

Renter-occupied

4,092

• 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 (Natural resources & mining, $67,074/yr) pays 3.2× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $20,715/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 14 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Republican 7,831 83.9%
• Democratic 1,419 15.2%
• Other / third-party 87 0.9%

• Tagalog 25 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 21 0.1%
• Spanish 20 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 19 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 11 0.0%
• Korean 4 0.0%

Households

9,939

Family households

5,926

59.6% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,289

21.8% of families

Single-mother families

709

12.0% of families

Veterans

714

3.9% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 18,407 76.4%
• Mainline Protestant 1,080 4.5%
• Black Protestant 550 2.3%
• Catholic 359 1.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1 0.0%

Health insured

94.7%

±1.8 pp

Uninsured

5.3%

±1.8 pp

72nd of 120

With a disability

25.3%

±2.2 pp

26th of 120

Bachelor's or higher

15.8%

±2.5 pp

−11.8 pp vs KY · 72nd of 120

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.4%

90% interval 7.3%–9.5% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

44th Judicial Circuit Court

Judges

1 (Circuit Court judges per circuit (general civil + felony criminal jurisdiction; civil amount-in-controversy > $5,000); District Court judges (limited jurisdiction) separate. Vintage 2026 kycourts.gov; shaded-bench counts per Wikipedia 'Kentucky Circuit Courts' judge-count map, with the three '6 or more' circuits (16th Kenton, 22nd Fayette, 30th Jefferson) hard-pinned to 6, 9, and 23 respectively per Wikipedia footnote 4. Mid-range single-county metro and exurban-cluster circuits are conservative midpoints; verify against KRS § 23A.040 before relying on exact counts.)

Court seats

Pineville

Traffic fatalities

3

16.33 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

3