Hancock County, Kentucky

• White (non-Hispanic) 8,498 94.1%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 74 0.8%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 114 1.3%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 7 0.1%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 264 2.9%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 1 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 76 0.8%

• Under 18 2,157 23.9%
• 18–24 687 7.6%
• 25–44 2,079 23.0%
• 45–64 2,454 27.2%
• 65 and over 1,657 18.3%

Median household income

$76,970

90% interval $69,087–$84,853

+$12,489 vs KY · 9th of 120

Below poverty line

12.5%

90% interval 9.6%–15.4%

−2.9 pp vs KY · 104th of 120

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.5%

+0.11 pp vs. state

County GDP

$899.7M

0.3% of state

Avg. annual pay

$90,688

Establishments

239

• Manufacturing 2,367 65.3%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 207 5.7%
• Education & health services 197 5.4%
• Public administration 109 3.0%
• Professional & business services 83 2.3%
• Leisure & hospitality 71 2.0%
• Financial activities 58 1.6%
• Other services 48 1.3%

The sectors listed cover 86.6% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

77.2%

+8.9 pp vs KY · 37th of 120

Median gross rent

$740

−$227 vs KY · 73rd of 120

Owner-occupied

2,807

Renter-occupied

831

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 76% 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.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Manufacturing, $112,585/yr) pays 6.4× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $17,691/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 15 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 3,375 72.8%
• Democratic 1,173 25.3%
• Other / third-party 85 1.8%

• German or other West Germanic 18 0.2%
• Spanish 14 0.2%
• Korean 14 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 11 0.1%
• Tagalog 4 0.0%

Households

3,638

Family households

2,562

70.4% of households

Married couples w/ children

547

21.4% of families

Single-mother families

244

9.5% of families

Veterans

594

8.6% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 6,550 72.0%
• Mainline Protestant 784 8.6%
• Catholic 653 7.2%

Health insured

95.9%

±1.4 pp

Uninsured

4.1%

±1.4 pp

101st of 120

With a disability

20.7%

±2.5 pp

64th of 120

Bachelor's or higher

17.3%

±3 pp

−10.3 pp vs KY · 58th of 120

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

6.7%

90% interval 5.9%–7.5% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

38th 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

Hartford, Hawesville, Morgantown

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

1

14.54 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

1