Larue County, Kentucky

• White (non-Hispanic) 13,659 90.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 502 3.3%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 313 2.1%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 3 0.0%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 541 3.6%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 7 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 82 0.5%

• Under 18 3,401 22.5%
• 18–24 1,120 7.4%
• 25–44 3,799 25.1%
• 45–64 4,050 26.8%
• 65 and over 2,737 18.1%

Median household income

$63,320

90% interval $56,856–$69,784

−$1,161 vs KY · 41st of 120

Below poverty line

14.1%

90% interval 10.9%–17.3%

−1.3 pp vs KY · 89th of 120

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.5%

+0.06 pp vs. state

County GDP

$313.9M

0.11% of state

Avg. annual pay

$45,021

Establishments

334

• Manufacturing 363 13.9%
• Education & health services 356 13.6%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 341 13.0%
• Construction 223 8.5%
• Professional & business services 223 8.5%
• Leisure & hospitality 216 8.3%
• Financial activities 189 7.2%
• Public administration 133 5.1%
• Natural resources & mining 61 2.3%
• Other services 58 2.2%
• Information 7 0.3%
• Unclassified 2 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 83.1% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

79.4%

+11.1 pp vs KY · 21st of 120

Median gross rent

$860

−$107 vs KY · 32nd of 120

Owner-occupied

4,760

Renter-occupied

1,236

• Diversified

  Top three sectors employ 41% 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 (Financial activities, $64,748/yr) pays 2.9× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $22,467/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Small-business scale

  Average establishment employs only 7.8 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

• Republican 5,773 79.5%
• Democratic 1,389 19.1%
• Other / third-party 96 1.3%

• Spanish 376 2.6%
• German or other West Germanic 115 0.8%
• Tagalog 3 0.0%

Households

5,996

Family households

4,229

70.5% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,161

27.5% of families

Single-mother families

337

8.0% of families

Veterans

846

7.2% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 6,122 41.2%
• Mainline Protestant 594 4.0%
• Catholic 225 1.5%
• Black Protestant 160 1.1%

Health insured

95.8%

±1.6 pp

Uninsured

4.2%

±1.6 pp

100th of 120

With a disability

18.9%

±2.3 pp

81st of 120

Bachelor's or higher

15.5%

±2.9 pp

−12.1 pp vs KY · 75th of 120

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

9.3%

90% interval 8.1%–10.5% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

10th 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

Bardstown, Hodgenville, Munfordville

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

4

34.17 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

4