Bullitt County, Kentucky

• White (non-Hispanic) 76,272 90.8%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2,769 3.3%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 1,091 1.3%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 599 0.7%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 2,956 3.5%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 17 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 323 0.4%

• Under 18 17,795 21.2%
• 18–24 6,158 7.3%
• 25–44 21,707 25.8%
• 45–64 23,782 28.3%
• 65 and over 14,585 17.4%

Median household income

$85,779

90% interval $79,621–$91,937

+$21,298 vs KY · 7th of 120

Below poverty line

8.5%

90% interval 6.7%–10.3%

−6.9 pp vs KY · 117th of 120

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.7%

+0.22 pp vs. state

County GDP

$3.8B

1.29% of state

Avg. annual pay

$55,437

Establishments

1,896

• Trade, transportation & utilities 13,090 44.6%
• Manufacturing 3,738 12.7%
• Leisure & hospitality 2,230 7.6%
• Education & health services 1,798 6.1%
• Professional & business services 1,768 6.0%
• Construction 1,670 5.7%
• Other services 1,155 3.9%
• Public administration 1,151 3.9%
• Financial activities 544 1.9%
• Information 135 0.5%
• Natural resources & mining 86 0.3%
• Unclassified 22 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 93.4% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

84.9%

+16.6 pp vs KY · 5th of 120

Median gross rent

$987

+$20 vs KY · 16th of 120

Owner-occupied

26,962

Renter-occupied

4,785

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 65% 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, $91,670/yr) pays 3.9× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $23,602/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 15 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 32,299 74.8%
• Democratic 10,280 23.8%
• Other / third-party 608 1.4%

• Spanish 1,487 1.9%
• Vietnamese 109 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 67 0.1%
• Tagalog 41 0.1%
• Korean 34 0.0%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 29 0.0%
• Chinese 15 0.0%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 14 0.0%
• Arabic 5 0.0%

Households

31,747

Family households

23,861

75.2% of households

Married couples w/ children

6,430

26.9% of families

Single-mother families

2,015

8.4% of families

Veterans

4,923

7.4% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 18,582 22.6%
• Catholic 2,723 3.3%
• Mainline Protestant 1,599 1.9%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,415 1.7%
• Black Protestant 180 0.2%

Health insured

97.2%

±0.5 pp

Uninsured

2.8%

±0.5 pp

116th of 120

With a disability

15.5%

±0.9 pp

104th of 120

Bachelor's or higher

19.5%

±1.5 pp

−8.1 pp vs KY · 39th of 120

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

5.8%

90% interval 5.2%–6.4% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

55th Judicial Circuit Court

Judges

2 (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

Shepherdsville

Traffic fatalities

10

15.1 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

9