Marion County, Kentucky

• White (non-Hispanic) 17,065 86.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 723 3.7%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 1,493 7.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 125 0.6%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 339 1.7%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 4 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%

• Under 18 4,700 23.8%
• 18–24 1,435 7.3%
• 25–44 4,936 25.0%
• 45–64 5,254 26.6%
• 65 and over 3,424 17.3%

Median household income

$62,645

90% interval $55,645–$69,645

−$1,836 vs KY · 44th of 120

Below poverty line

16.4%

90% interval 13.2%–19.6%

+1.0 pp vs KY · 64th of 120

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.1%

+0.71 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.3B

0.43% of state

Avg. annual pay

$51,637

Establishments

554

• Manufacturing 3,633 40.8%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,277 14.3%
• Education & health services 1,223 13.7%
• Professional & business services 882 9.9%
• Leisure & hospitality 435 4.9%
• Financial activities 163 1.8%
• Other services 141 1.6%
• Public administration 5 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 87.1% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

77.7%

+9.4 pp vs KY · 30th of 120

Median gross rent

$726

−$241 vs KY · 80th of 120

Owner-occupied

5,999

Renter-occupied

1,725

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 69% 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 (Manufacturing, $61,890/yr) pays 3.2× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $19,535/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 16 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 6,473 71.1%
• Democratic 2,513 27.6%
• Other / third-party 114 1.3%

• Spanish 556 3.0%
• German or other West Germanic 79 0.4%
• Tagalog 17 0.1%
• Chinese 15 0.1%

Households

7,724

Family households

5,142

66.6% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,368

26.6% of families

Single-mother families

627

12.2% of families

Veterans

1,026

6.8% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 4,384 22.4%
• Catholic 4,320 22.1%
• Mainline Protestant 871 4.4%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 382 2.0%
• Black Protestant 76 0.4%

Health insured

96.9%

±1 pp

Uninsured

3.1%

±1 pp

114th of 120

With a disability

19.3%

±2.2 pp

79th of 120

Bachelor's or higher

15.1%

±2.3 pp

−12.5 pp vs KY · 84th of 120

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.7%

90% interval 7.6%–9.8% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

11th 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

Campbellsville, Greensburg, Lebanon, Springfield

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

2

13.29 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

1