Laurel County, Kentucky

• White (non-Hispanic) 59,725 94.8%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,061 1.7%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 352 0.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 195 0.3%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,439 2.3%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 71 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 92 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 48 0.1%

• Under 18 14,265 22.6%
• 18–24 4,924 7.8%
• 25–44 16,448 26.1%
• 45–64 16,567 26.3%
• 65 and over 10,779 17.1%

Median household income

$54,404

90% interval $48,680–$60,128

−$10,077 vs KY · 76th of 120

Below poverty line

17.8%

90% interval 14.5%–21.1%

+2.4 pp vs KY · 51st of 120

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.5%

+1.06 pp vs. state

County GDP

$3.0B

1% of state

Avg. annual pay

$50,304

Establishments

1,810

• Trade, transportation & utilities 7,081 27.1%
• Professional & business services 3,718 14.2%
• Education & health services 3,717 14.2%
• Manufacturing 3,525 13.5%
• Leisure & hospitality 2,596 9.9%
• Construction 962 3.7%
• Financial activities 834 3.2%
• Public administration 607 2.3%
• Information 459 1.8%
• Other services 406 1.6%
• Natural resources & mining 148 0.6%
• Unclassified 4 0.0%

The sectors listed cover 92.2% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

71.6%

+3.3 pp vs KY · 77th of 120

Median gross rent

$813

−$154 vs KY · 45th of 120

Owner-occupied

17,185

Renter-occupied

6,811

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 56% 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, $84,716/yr) pays 4.1× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $20,777/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 23,516 84.3%
• Democratic 4,037 14.5%
• Other / third-party 331 1.2%

• Spanish 380 0.6%
• Chinese 255 0.4%
• Arabic 23 0.0%
• German or other West Germanic 17 0.0%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 14 0.0%
• Vietnamese 10 0.0%
• Tagalog 10 0.0%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 9 0.0%

Households

23,996

Family households

16,918

70.5% of households

Married couples w/ children

4,463

26.4% of families

Single-mother families

1,450

8.6% of families

Veterans

2,675

5.5% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 23,554 37.6%
• Mainline Protestant 1,257 2.0%
• Black Protestant 936 1.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 826 1.3%
• Catholic 406 0.6%

Health insured

92.2%

±1.2 pp

Uninsured

7.8%

±1.2 pp

25th of 120

With a disability

21.1%

±1.6 pp

61st of 120

Bachelor's or higher

17.5%

±1.6 pp

−10.1 pp vs KY · 56th of 120

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

9.4%

90% interval 8.3%–10.5% · 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

18

36.95 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

17