Clinton County, Kentucky

• White (non-Hispanic) 8,563 93.1%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 315 3.4%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 8 0.1%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 33 0.4%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 224 2.4%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 50 0.5%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 9 0.1%

• Under 18 1,974 21.5%
• 18–24 654 7.1%
• 25–44 2,198 23.9%
• 45–64 2,482 27.0%
• 65 and over 1,894 20.6%

Median household income

$42,798

90% interval $38,701–$46,895

−$21,683 vs KY · 108th of 120

Below poverty line

21.4%

90% interval 16.5%–26.3%

+6.0 pp vs KY · 30th of 120

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.3%

+0.91 pp vs. state

County GDP

$465.7M

0.16% of state

Avg. annual pay

$42,011

Establishments

300

• Manufacturing 1,574 43.3%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 617 17.0%
• Education & health services 344 9.5%
• Leisure & hospitality 244 6.7%
• Public administration 161 4.4%
• Professional & business services 83 2.3%
• Construction 66 1.8%
• Financial activities 59 1.6%
• Other services 32 0.9%
• Natural resources & mining 27 0.7%
• Information 15 0.4%

The sectors listed cover 88.6% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

71.1%

+2.8 pp vs KY · 80th of 120

Median gross rent

$617

−$350 vs KY · 106th of 120

Owner-occupied

2,742

Renter-occupied

1,112

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 70% 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.

• Compressed wage spread

  Highest-paid sector pays only 2.5× the lowest ($51,963 vs $21,129/yr), a relatively flat local wage distribution.

• 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.

• Republican 4,276 87.6%
• Democratic 549 11.2%
• Other / third-party 55 1.1%

• Spanish 134 1.5%
• German or other West Germanic 45 0.5%

Households

3,854

Family households

2,535

65.8% of households

Married couples w/ children

655

25.8% of families

Single-mother families

201

7.9% of families

Veterans

596

8.2% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 3,798 41.0%
• Mainline Protestant 1,622 17.5%
• Catholic 159 1.7%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1 0.0%

Health insured

92.6%

±2 pp

Uninsured

7.4%

±2 pp

34th of 120

With a disability

22.2%

±2.8 pp

48th of 120

Bachelor's or higher

18.0%

±4.1 pp

−9.6 pp vs KY · 53rd of 120

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

9.1%

90% interval 7.9%–10.3% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

40th 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

Albany, Burkesville, Tompkinsville

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

3

41.51 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

3