Fulton County, Kentucky

• White (non-Hispanic) 4,390 68.5%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 213 3.3%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 1,527 23.8%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 185 2.9%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 22 0.3%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 37 0.6%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 35 0.5%

• Under 18 1,400 21.8%
• 18–24 538 8.4%
• 25–44 1,570 24.5%
• 45–64 1,583 24.7%
• 65 and over 1,318 20.6%

Median household income

$44,503

90% interval $39,767–$49,239

−$19,978 vs KY · 104th of 120

Below poverty line

23.9%

90% interval 17.6%–30.2%

+8.5 pp vs KY · 21st of 120

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.9%

+0.46 pp vs. state

County GDP

$286.3M

0.1% of state

Avg. annual pay

$44,614

Establishments

216

• Trade, transportation & utilities 656 29.2%
• Manufacturing 607 27.0%
• Leisure & hospitality 203 9.0%
• Public administration 165 7.3%
• Education & health services 144 6.4%
• Financial activities 75 3.3%
• Natural resources & mining 68 3.0%
• Construction 47 2.1%
• Other services 23 1.0%

The sectors listed cover 88.4% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

61.8%

−6.5 pp vs KY · 115th of 120

Median gross rent

$570

−$397 vs KY · 113th of 120

Owner-occupied

1,576

Renter-occupied

974

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 65% 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.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Manufacturing, $62,456/yr) pays 3.8× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $16,497/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 10 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 1,491 69.5%
• Democratic 636 29.7%
• Other / third-party 18 0.8%

• Spanish 140 2.3%
• German or other West Germanic 47 0.8%

Households

2,550

Family households

1,465

57.5% of households

Married couples w/ children

249

17.0% of families

Single-mother families

264

18.0% of families

Veterans

360

7.2% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 2,995 46.0%
• Mainline Protestant 776 11.9%
• Black Protestant 462 7.1%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 458 7.0%
• Catholic 149 2.3%

Health insured

94.5%

±2.2 pp

Uninsured

5.5%

±2.2 pp

68th of 120

With a disability

22.6%

±3.9 pp

44th of 120

Bachelor's or higher

16.1%

±3.6 pp

−11.5 pp vs KY · 66th of 120

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

7.2%

90% interval 6.1%–8.3% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

1st 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

Bardwell, Clinton, Hickman, Wickliffe

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

0

0 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

0