Daviess County, Kentucky

• White (non-Hispanic) 87,989 84.9%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4,412 4.3%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 4,183 4.0%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 2,173 2.1%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 3,951 3.8%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 146 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 26 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 768 0.7%

• Under 18 25,381 24.5%
• 18–24 8,658 8.4%
• 25–44 26,027 25.1%
• 45–64 25,262 24.4%
• 65 and over 18,320 17.7%

Median household income

$68,015

90% interval $63,123–$72,907

+$3,534 vs KY · 21st of 120

Below poverty line

14.2%

90% interval 12.0%–16.4%

−1.2 pp vs KY · 87th of 120

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.0%

−0.38 pp vs. state

County GDP

$6.2B

2.08% of state

Avg. annual pay

$56,466

Establishments

3,643

• Education & health services 10,398 21.8%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 9,958 20.8%
• Manufacturing 7,520 15.7%
• Leisure & hospitality 5,358 11.2%
• Professional & business services 3,725 7.8%
• Financial activities 2,660 5.6%
• Construction 2,280 4.8%
• Public administration 1,125 2.4%
• Other services 1,081 2.3%
• Information 302 0.6%
• Natural resources & mining 185 0.4%
• Unclassified 16 0.0%

The sectors listed cover 93.3% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

68.1%

−0.2 pp vs KY · 99th of 120

Median gross rent

$918

−$49 vs KY · 23rd of 120

Owner-occupied

28,341

Renter-occupied

13,298

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 58% 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, $76,216/yr) pays 3.5× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $21,938/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 13 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 30,705 65.2%
• Democratic 15,673 33.3%
• Other / third-party 689 1.5%

• Spanish 3,091 3.2%
• Korean 275 0.3%
• German or other West Germanic 265 0.3%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 119 0.1%
• Chinese 114 0.1%
• Tagalog 32 0.0%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 11 0.0%
• Arabic 2 0.0%

Households

41,639

Family households

26,560

63.8% of households

Married couples w/ children

7,188

27.1% of families

Single-mother families

3,043

11.5% of families

Veterans

5,241

6.7% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 36,295 35.1%
• Catholic 22,807 22.1%
• Mainline Protestant 5,485 5.3%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,120 1.1%
• Black Protestant 276 0.3%

Health insured

94.5%

±0.9 pp

Uninsured

5.5%

±0.9 pp

67th of 120

With a disability

16.8%

±1 pp

98th of 120

Bachelor's or higher

26.2%

±1.4 pp

−1.4 pp vs KY · 19th of 120

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

7.7%

90% interval 6.8%–8.6% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

6th 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

Owensboro

Traffic fatalities

8

10.22 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

8