Boone County, Kentucky

• White (non-Hispanic) 115,066 82.3%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 8,264 5.9%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 6,112 4.4%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 3,371 2.4%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 5,938 4.2%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 56 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 423 0.3%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 611 0.4%

• Under 18 35,763 25.6%
• 18–24 11,690 8.4%
• 25–44 36,034 25.8%
• 45–64 35,566 25.4%
• 65 and over 20,788 14.9%

Median household income

$103,122

90% interval $96,881–$109,363

+$38,641 vs KY · 2nd of 120

Below poverty line

7.5%

90% interval 6.2%–8.8%

−7.9 pp vs KY · 118th of 120

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.9%

−0.57 pp vs. state

County GDP

$16.8B

5.68% of state

Avg. annual pay

$60,495

Establishments

6,440

• Trade, transportation & utilities 43,772 41.5%
• Professional & business services 14,420 13.7%
• Manufacturing 13,086 12.4%
• Leisure & hospitality 10,500 10.0%
• Education & health services 7,389 7.0%
• Financial activities 2,991 2.8%
• Public administration 2,726 2.6%
• Other services 2,451 2.3%
• Information 172 0.2%

The sectors listed cover 92.4% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

76.3%

+8.0 pp vs KY · 43rd of 120

Median gross rent

$1,373

+$406 vs KY · 1st of 120

Owner-occupied

38,868

Renter-occupied

12,095

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 68% 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, $82,250/yr) pays 2.8× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $29,109/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 16 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 45,650 67.7%
• Democratic 20,601 30.6%
• Other / third-party 1,131 1.7%

• Spanish 5,329 4.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 1,308 1.0%
• German or other West Germanic 514 0.4%
• Vietnamese 371 0.3%
• Arabic 290 0.2%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 282 0.2%
• Chinese 244 0.2%
• Korean 133 0.1%
• Tagalog 112 0.1%

Households

50,963

Family households

36,149

70.9% of households

Married couples w/ children

11,740

32.5% of families

Single-mother families

3,144

8.7% of families

Veterans

8,130

7.8% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 30,682 22.6%
• Catholic 21,560 15.9%
• Mainline Protestant 3,043 2.2%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,553 1.9%

Health insured

94.9%

±0.9 pp

Uninsured

5.1%

±0.9 pp

79th of 120

With a disability

12.1%

±0.7 pp

119th of 120

Bachelor's or higher

35.7%

±1.5 pp

+8.1 pp vs KY · 7th of 120

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

5.4%

90% interval 4.8%–6.0% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

54th Judicial Circuit Court

Judges

4 (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

Burlington, Warsaw

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

6

5.76 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

6