Fayette County, Kentucky

• White (non-Hispanic) 216,082 66.7%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 30,824 9.5%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 46,573 14.4%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 14,064 4.3%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 15,125 4.7%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 131 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 33 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 893 0.3%

• Under 18 67,924 21.0%
• 18–24 44,250 13.7%
• 25–44 91,056 28.1%
• 45–64 72,869 22.5%
• 65 and over 47,626 14.7%

Median household income

$71,046

90% interval $66,911–$75,181

+$6,565 vs KY · 16th of 120

Below poverty line

12.7%

90% interval 11.0%–14.4%

−2.7 pp vs KY · 100th of 120

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.7%

−0.72 pp vs. state

County GDP

$28.9B

9.79% of state

Avg. annual pay

$66,702

Establishments

15,422

• Education & health services 58,026 28.1%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 36,365 17.6%
• Professional & business services 29,742 14.4%
• Leisure & hospitality 24,735 12.0%
• Construction 11,077 5.4%
• Manufacturing 11,024 5.3%
• Financial activities 9,709 4.7%
• Public administration 6,738 3.3%
• Other services 6,455 3.1%
• Information 2,605 1.3%
• Natural resources & mining 2,022 1.0%
• Unclassified 132 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 96.1% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

53.8%

−14.5 pp vs KY · 119th of 120

Median gross rent

$1,164

+$197 vs KY · 4th of 120

Owner-occupied

75,121

Renter-occupied

64,594

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 60% 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, $89,980/yr) pays 3.3× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $27,636/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.

• Democratic 83,387 58.0%
• Republican 57,347 39.9%
• Other / third-party 3,028 2.1%

• Spanish 23,292 7.6%
• Chinese 2,756 0.9%
• Arabic 2,705 0.9%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 2,614 0.9%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 1,343 0.4%
• German or other West Germanic 960 0.3%
• Korean 838 0.3%
• Tagalog 576 0.2%
• Vietnamese 235 0.1%

Households

139,715

Family households

76,067

54.4% of households

Married couples w/ children

21,927

28.8% of families

Single-mother families

7,761

10.2% of families

Veterans

12,848

5% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 76,349 23.7%
• Mainline Protestant 28,650 8.9%
• Catholic 23,544 7.3%
• Black Protestant 14,672 4.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 12,378 3.8%
• Orthodox 644 0.2%

Health insured

92.8%

±0.5 pp

Uninsured

7.2%

±0.5 pp

36th of 120

With a disability

13.3%

±0.5 pp

116th of 120

Bachelor's or higher

48.3%

±1.3 pp

+20.7 pp vs KY · 1st of 120

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

9.1%

90% interval 8.3%–9.9% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

22nd Judicial Circuit Court

Judges

9 (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

Lexington

Traffic fatalities

37

14.46 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

34