Knox County, Kentucky

• White (non-Hispanic) 28,380 95.0%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 389 1.3%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 312 1.0%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 57 0.2%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 724 2.4%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 3 0.0%

• Under 18 7,053 23.6%
• 18–24 2,485 8.3%
• 25–44 7,337 24.6%
• 45–64 7,787 26.1%
• 65 and over 5,203 17.4%

Median household income

$40,065

90% interval $35,475–$44,655

−$24,416 vs KY · 116th of 120

Below poverty line

30.7%

90% interval 25.8%–35.6%

+15.3 pp vs KY · 8th of 120

Unemployment (12-mo)

6.0%

+1.57 pp vs. state

County GDP

$836.8M

0.28% of state

Avg. annual pay

$45,636

Establishments

612

• Education & health services 2,959 39.3%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,501 19.9%
• Manufacturing 997 13.2%
• Leisure & hospitality 550 7.3%
• Professional & business services 463 6.2%
• Public administration 385 5.1%
• Construction 215 2.9%
• Financial activities 188 2.5%
• Other services 64 0.9%
• Information 44 0.6%
• Natural resources & mining 25 0.3%
• Unclassified 2 0.0%

The sectors listed cover 98.2% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

65.3%

−3.0 pp vs KY · 106th of 120

Median gross rent

$681

−$286 vs KY · 91st of 120

Owner-occupied

7,650

Renter-occupied

4,061

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 72% 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 (Construction, $67,461/yr) pays 3.4× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $20,010/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 12 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 11,178 85.0%
• Democratic 1,821 13.8%
• Other / third-party 157 1.2%

• Spanish 179 0.6%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 43 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 27 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 16 0.1%

Households

11,711

Family households

7,768

66.3% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,887

24.3% of families

Single-mother families

818

10.5% of families

Veterans

853

3.7% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 16,718 55.4%
• Mainline Protestant 733 2.4%
• Catholic 585 1.9%
• Black Protestant 252 0.8%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 124 0.4%

Health insured

91.4%

±2.1 pp

Uninsured

8.6%

±2.1 pp

13th of 120

With a disability

24.1%

±2.2 pp

36th of 120

Bachelor's or higher

13.6%

±2 pp

−14.0 pp vs KY · 98th of 120

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

10.7%

90% interval 9.4%–12.0% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

27th Judicial Circuit Court

Judges

3 (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

Barbourville, London

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

3

13.15 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

3