Christian County, Kentucky

• White (non-Hispanic) 46,013 63.8%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6,267 8.7%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 13,180 18.3%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 893 1.2%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 5,047 7.0%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 73 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 303 0.4%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 293 0.4%

• Under 18 20,421 28.3%
• 18–24 10,253 14.2%
• 25–44 19,972 27.7%
• 45–64 12,255 17.0%
• 65 and over 9,168 12.7%

Median household income

$56,457

90% interval $52,046–$60,868

−$8,024 vs KY · 70th of 120

Below poverty line

17.3%

90% interval 14.2%–20.4%

+1.9 pp vs KY · 56th of 120

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.5%

+1.12 pp vs. state

County GDP

$7.9B

2.66% of state

Avg. annual pay

$56,172

Establishments

2,204

• Trade, transportation & utilities 6,666 21.4%
• Education & health services 6,139 19.7%
• Manufacturing 6,080 19.5%
• Professional & business services 3,292 10.6%
• Leisure & hospitality 3,150 10.1%
• Public administration 1,996 6.4%
• Financial activities 808 2.6%
• Other services 475 1.5%
• Information 11 0.0%

The sectors listed cover 91.8% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

50.0%

−18.3 pp vs KY · 120th of 120

Median gross rent

$1,040

+$73 vs KY · 10th of 120

Owner-occupied

12,874

Renter-occupied

12,851

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 61% 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 (Financial activities, $73,281/yr) pays 2.9× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $25,709/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 14,332 66.1%
• Democratic 7,055 32.6%
• Other / third-party 284 1.3%

• Spanish 3,023 4.6%
• German or other West Germanic 2,608 4.0%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 114 0.2%
• Korean 114 0.2%
• Tagalog 49 0.1%
• Vietnamese 40 0.1%
• Chinese 27 0.0%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 25 0.0%

Households

25,725

Family households

16,971

66.0% of households

Married couples w/ children

5,436

32.0% of families

Single-mother families

2,372

14.0% of families

Veterans

5,110

11.4% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 26,419 36.3%
• Mainline Protestant 4,325 5.9%
• Catholic 3,766 5.2%
• Black Protestant 3,360 4.6%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 751 1.0%

Health insured

89.8%

±1.4 pp

Uninsured

10.2%

±1.4 pp

11th of 120

With a disability

17.3%

±1.2 pp

93rd of 120

Bachelor's or higher

19.6%

±1.6 pp

−8.0 pp vs KY · 37th of 120

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

10.6%

90% interval 9.2%–12.0% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

3rd Judicial Circuit Court

Judges

3 (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

Hopkinsville

Traffic fatalities

11

21.3 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

11