Hopkins County, Kentucky

• White (non-Hispanic) 39,220 86.9%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,249 2.8%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 2,595 5.8%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 264 0.6%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,719 3.8%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 61 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 11 0.0%

• Under 18 10,378 23.0%
• 18–24 3,358 7.4%
• 25–44 11,046 24.5%
• 45–64 11,740 26.0%
• 65 and over 8,597 19.1%

Median household income

$57,348

90% interval $51,237–$63,459

−$7,133 vs KY · 66th of 120

Below poverty line

19.3%

90% interval 16.5%–22.1%

+3.9 pp vs KY · 40th of 120

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.6%

+0.21 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.7B

0.9% of state

Avg. annual pay

$56,343

Establishments

1,232

• Education & health services 4,456 25.7%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 4,192 24.2%
• Manufacturing 2,023 11.7%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,513 8.7%
• Construction 928 5.4%
• Professional & business services 858 5.0%
• Public administration 720 4.2%
• Natural resources & mining 664 3.8%
• Other services 567 3.3%
• Financial activities 489 2.8%
• Information 68 0.4%
• Unclassified 6 0.0%

The sectors listed cover 95.1% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

70.7%

+2.4 pp vs KY · 85th of 120

Median gross rent

$837

−$130 vs KY · 37th of 120

Owner-occupied

13,009

Renter-occupied

5,388

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 62% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Natural resources & mining, $98,693/yr) pays 5.2× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $18,905/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 14 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 15,361 74.8%
• Democratic 4,916 23.9%
• Other / third-party 255 1.2%

• Spanish 717 1.7%
• Chinese 131 0.3%
• German or other West Germanic 87 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 74 0.2%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 47 0.1%
• Tagalog 28 0.1%
• Korean 10 0.0%
• Arabic 2 0.0%

Households

18,397

Family households

12,092

65.7% of households

Married couples w/ children

2,932

24.2% of families

Single-mother families

1,349

11.2% of families

Veterans

1,801

5.2% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 20,690 45.5%
• Mainline Protestant 3,742 8.2%
• Black Protestant 2,368 5.2%
• Catholic 870 1.9%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 621 1.4%

Health insured

95.1%

±1.1 pp

Uninsured

4.9%

±1.1 pp

86th of 120

With a disability

25.9%

±1.8 pp

21st of 120

Bachelor's or higher

16.9%

±1.7 pp

−10.7 pp vs KY · 61st of 120

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.2%

90% interval 7.3%–9.1% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

4th 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

Madisonville

Traffic fatalities

11

31.66 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

10