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Clark County, Kentucky

Republican +35.3 (2024)
County seat
Winchester
Judicial district
25th Judicial Circuit Court
Population (July 2025 estimate)
37,888
Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 37,192.

At a glance

Clark County is a 37,888-person venue. The county population is 89% White (Census race-alone categories). Median household income is $63,815; 22.9% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 3.4% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, most commonly Spanish. The largest published sector is Trade, transportation & utilities, at 21.1% of covered employment, average pay $49,582/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 4.08%, below the 4.43% state average. The county carried the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking 65% to 67% of the vote across the three.

Population
37,192
Median household income
$64,348
Unemployment
4.1%

Who sits on a jury?

Predominantly White

≥70% White (race-alone) and <20% Black. This county: 89% / 3%.

Clark County has a population of 37,192, with a median age of 40.5. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 88.6%; Black residents 2.9%. Independently, 4.1% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The median household earns $63,815; 22.9% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 14.1% live below the federal poverty line.

Race & ethnicity
  • White (non-Hispanic) 32,778 88.1%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,534 4.1%
  • Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 1,034 2.8%
  • Asian (non-Hispanic) 275 0.7%
  • Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,441 3.9%
  • American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 106 0.3%
  • Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
  • Some other race (non-Hispanic) 24 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Age distribution

Median age 40.5

  • Under 18 8,358 22.5%
  • 18–24 2,704 7.3%
  • 25–44 9,568 25.7%
  • 45–64 9,785 26.3%
  • 65 and over 6,777 18.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Income & poverty
Median household income
$63,815
90% interval $58,423–$69,207
−$666 vs KY · 40th of 120
Below poverty line
14.1%
90% interval 11.5%–16.7%
−1.3 pp vs KY · 88th of 120

U.S. Census SAIPE 2024

Economic context

Led by trade & transportation and healthcare & education

Counting the cells BLS withholds (private jobs estimated from Census County Business Patterns, government jobs from the statewide mix), the two largest sectors are within 20% of each other: Trade, transportation & utilities about 2,850, Education & health services about 2,770.

Trade, transportation & utilities is the largest published sector at 21.1% of covered employment, followed by Manufacturing at 19.2%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 4.08%, below the Kentucky state average.

Local economy
Unemployment (12-mo)
4.1%
−0.35 pp vs. state
County GDP
$2.0B
0.69% of state
Avg. annual pay
$57,150
Establishments
1,104

U.S. BLS 2026M07 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2025

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

  • Trade, transportation & utilities 2,852 21.1%
  • Manufacturing 2,594 19.2%
  • Professional & business services 2,133 15.8%
  • Education & health services 1,610 11.9%
  • Leisure & hospitality 1,251 9.2%
  • Construction 713 5.3%
  • Public administration 463 3.4%
  • Financial activities 344 2.5%
  • Other services 189 1.4%
  • Natural resources & mining 82 0.6%
  • Information 51 0.4%
  • Unclassified 7 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 90.8% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

BLS QCEW 2025

Housing
Home ownership
70.7%
+2.4 pp vs KY · 84th of 120
Median gross rent
$938
−$29 vs KY · 20th of 120
Owner-occupied
10,640
Renter-occupied
4,415

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Local economy in 3 reads
  • Moderately concentrated

    Top three sectors employ 56% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

  • Wide wage spread

    Highest-paid sector (Information, $108,733/yr) pays 5.2× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $20,715/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

  • Mixed business scale

    Average establishment employs 12 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

BLS QCEW 2025

Political composition

Consistently strongly Republican

Republican candidate carried this county in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (avg winning share: 66%). 'Strongly' threshold: ≥60% avg.

Clark County was carried by the Republican candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 66.9% in 2024, 65.1% in 2020, 66.1% in 2016.

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 17,868 votes cast

  • Republican
  • Democratic
Presidential vote share by year
YearRepublicanDemocratic
201666.1%29.1%
202065.1%33.1%
202466.9%31.6%
  • Republican 11,950 66.9%
  • Democratic 5,639 31.6%
  • Other / third-party 279 1.6%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Family-majority, English-speaking

Family households are 64% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 3.4% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).

3.4% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, Tagalog, Chinese. Veterans account for 7.1% of the adult civilian population (2,053 individuals).

Languages spoken at home

96.6% speak only English at home

  • Spanish 790 2.3%
  • Tagalog 146 0.4%
  • Chinese 63 0.2%
  • German or other West Germanic 61 0.2%
  • French, Haitian, or Cajun 59 0.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Household composition
Households
15,055
Family households
9,667
64.2% of households
Married couples w/ children
2,090
21.6% of families
Single-mother families
736
7.6% of families
Veterans
2,053
7.1% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Religious composition

41.7% overall adherence rate

  • Evangelical Protestant 10,351 28.0%
  • Mainline Protestant 2,654 7.2%
  • Black Protestant 1,100 3.0%
  • Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 670 1.8%
  • Catholic 638 1.7%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education
Health insured
95.7%
±1.1 pp
Uninsured
4.3%
±1.1 pp
99th of 120
With a disability
20.6%
±1.8 pp
65th of 120
Bachelor's or higher
22.9%
±2.2 pp
−4.7 pp vs KY · 26th of 120
Uninsured, under 65 (2024)
6.4%
90% interval 5.6%–7.2% · Census SAHIE

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

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Court infrastructure

Court infrastructure
Trial court
25th 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
Richmond, Winchester

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Court reference
Traffic safety context

Clark totals, 2024 — the per-100k rate is based on 9 recorded deaths, too few to be statistically reliable

Traffic fatalities
9
31.21 per 100k adults (18+)
Fatal crashes
9

NHTSA FARS 2024

About this profile

This profile aggregates publicly available U.S. government statistics for Clark County, Kentucky to give trial attorneys venue context for jury selection. It describes the general population of the county, not the qualified jury wheel, and is not legal advice or a substitute for the court's juror records.

Sources as of: U.S. Census ACS 2024 · U.S. BLS 2026M07 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2025 · Election results 2024 · NHTSA FARS 2024 · US Religion Census 2020.

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