Graves County, Kentucky

• White (non-Hispanic) 30,713 83.8%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2,983 8.1%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 1,525 4.2%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 164 0.4%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,116 3.0%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 20 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 109 0.3%

• Under 18 8,849 24.2%
• 18–24 2,857 7.8%
• 25–44 8,690 23.7%
• 45–64 9,481 25.9%
• 65 and over 6,753 18.4%

Median household income

$56,968

90% interval $51,020–$62,916

−$7,513 vs KY · 67th of 120

Below poverty line

16.6%

90% interval 13.1%–20.1%

+1.2 pp vs KY · 60th of 120

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.0%

−0.48 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.8B

0.59% of state

Avg. annual pay

$52,102

Establishments

1,040

• Trade, transportation & utilities 2,855 23.9%
• Manufacturing 2,300 19.2%
• Education & health services 1,340 11.2%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,198 10.0%
• Professional & business services 866 7.2%
• Financial activities 507 4.2%
• Construction 442 3.7%
• Public administration 380 3.2%
• Other services 338 2.8%
• Natural resources & mining 251 2.1%
• Information 115 1.0%
• Unclassified 2 0.0%

The sectors listed cover 88.7% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

76.1%

+7.8 pp vs KY · 45th of 120

Median gross rent

$775

−$192 vs KY · 60th of 120

Owner-occupied

10,755

Renter-occupied

3,384

• Diversified

  Top three sectors employ 54% of the workforce, a relatively diversified local economy. Expect mixed employer backgrounds on the panel rather than concentration in any one institution or industry.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Information, $78,887/yr) pays 4.4× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $17,866/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 11 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 13,378 80.2%
• Democratic 3,105 18.6%
• Other / third-party 195 1.2%

• Spanish 1,690 4.9%
• German or other West Germanic 240 0.7%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 50 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 6 0.0%
• Tagalog 4 0.0%

Households

14,139

Family households

9,585

67.8% of households

Married couples w/ children

2,723

28.4% of families

Single-mother families

884

9.2% of families

Veterans

1,689

6.1% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 20,779 56.7%
• Catholic 2,763 7.5%
• Mainline Protestant 1,701 4.6%
• Black Protestant 972 2.7%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 581 1.6%

Health insured

92.4%

±1.7 pp

Uninsured

7.6%

±1.7 pp

29th of 120

With a disability

19.8%

±1.9 pp

72nd of 120

Bachelor's or higher

18.4%

±2.3 pp

−9.2 pp vs KY · 49th of 120

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.2%

90% interval 7.2%–9.2% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

52nd Judicial Circuit Court

Judges

2 (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

Mayfield

Traffic fatalities

7

25.2 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

5