Jessamine County, Kentucky

• White (non-Hispanic) 46,646 85.5%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2,740 5.0%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 2,210 4.0%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 963 1.8%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,771 3.2%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 15 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 21 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 222 0.4%

• Under 18 12,966 23.8%
• 18–24 4,950 9.1%
• 25–44 14,058 25.8%
• 45–64 13,736 25.2%
• 65 and over 8,878 16.3%

Median household income

$71,861

90% interval $65,050–$78,672

+$7,380 vs KY · 15th of 120

Below poverty line

12.6%

90% interval 10.4%–14.8%

−2.8 pp vs KY · 103rd of 120

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.9%

−0.56 pp vs. state

County GDP

$3.1B

1.03% of state

Avg. annual pay

$55,341

Establishments

2,064

• Trade, transportation & utilities 4,797 25.3%
• Education & health services 2,450 12.9%
• Leisure & hospitality 2,379 12.6%
• Manufacturing 2,239 11.8%
• Construction 1,656 8.7%
• Professional & business services 1,416 7.5%
• Financial activities 636 3.4%
• Public administration 633 3.3%
• Other services 559 3.0%
• Information 159 0.8%
• Natural resources & mining 110 0.6%
• Unclassified 13 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 90.1% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

66.7%

−1.6 pp vs KY · 102nd of 120

Median gross rent

$1,124

+$157 vs KY · 8th of 120

Owner-occupied

13,291

Renter-occupied

6,622

• Diversified

  Top three sectors employ 51% of the workforce, a relatively diversified local economy. Expect mixed employer backgrounds on the panel rather than concentration in any one institution or industry.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Manufacturing, $77,196/yr) pays 3.0× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $25,858/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Small-business scale

  Average establishment employs only 9.2 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

• Republican 17,854 67.0%
• Democratic 8,303 31.2%
• Other / third-party 487 1.8%

• Spanish 1,543 3.0%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 1,172 2.3%
• Chinese 129 0.3%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 114 0.2%
• Arabic 39 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 34 0.1%
• Tagalog 21 0.0%
• Vietnamese 6 0.0%

Households

19,913

Family households

13,733

69.0% of households

Married couples w/ children

3,880

28.3% of families

Single-mother families

1,109

8.1% of families

Veterans

2,541

6.1% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 24,789 46.8%
• Mainline Protestant 2,371 4.5%
• Catholic 840 1.6%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 605 1.1%
• Black Protestant 550 1.0%
• Orthodox 260 0.5%

Health insured

93.1%

±1.5 pp

Uninsured

6.9%

±1.5 pp

40th of 120

With a disability

14.4%

±1.2 pp

111th of 120

Bachelor's or higher

33.5%

±2.3 pp

+5.9 pp vs KY · 10th of 120

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.3%

90% interval 7.4%–9.2% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

13th 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

Lancaster, Nicholasville

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

3

7.21 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

3