McCracken County, Kentucky

• White (non-Hispanic) 54,818 81.1%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2,314 3.4%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 6,586 9.7%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 583 0.9%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 2,861 4.2%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 86 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 72 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 244 0.4%

• Under 18 14,733 21.8%
• 18–24 5,029 7.4%
• 25–44 16,732 24.8%
• 45–64 17,245 25.5%
• 65 and over 13,825 20.5%

Median household income

$64,076

90% interval $60,595–$67,557

−$405 vs KY · 39th of 120

Below poverty line

13.9%

90% interval 11.3%–16.5%

−1.5 pp vs KY · 93rd of 120

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.3%

−0.1 pp vs. state

County GDP

$7.0B

2.37% of state

Avg. annual pay

$59,309

Establishments

2,894

• Trade, transportation & utilities 11,988 29.3%
• Education & health services 8,486 20.7%
• Leisure & hospitality 5,600 13.7%
• Professional & business services 4,077 9.9%
• Construction 2,426 5.9%
• Financial activities 1,374 3.4%
• Other services 1,010 2.5%
• Public administration 783 1.9%

The sectors listed cover 87.2% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

68.9%

+0.6 pp vs KY · 94th of 120

Median gross rent

$898

−$69 vs KY · 25th of 120

Owner-occupied

19,024

Renter-occupied

8,577

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 64% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Professional & business services, $74,106/yr) pays 3.4× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $21,852/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• 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 21,349 66.8%
• Democratic 10,191 31.9%
• Other / third-party 397 1.2%

• Spanish 881 1.4%
• Vietnamese 129 0.2%
• Arabic 126 0.2%
• German or other West Germanic 113 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 86 0.1%
• Chinese 86 0.1%
• Tagalog 70 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 42 0.1%

Households

27,601

Family households

16,574

60.0% of households

Married couples w/ children

4,364

26.3% of families

Single-mother families

1,842

11.1% of families

Veterans

3,712

7% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 40,140 59.1%
• Mainline Protestant 4,676 6.9%
• Catholic 3,879 5.7%
• Black Protestant 2,696 4.0%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,004 1.5%

Health insured

94.1%

±0.9 pp

Uninsured

5.9%

±0.9 pp

58th of 120

With a disability

16.5%

±1.2 pp

102nd of 120

Bachelor's or higher

29.0%

±1.9 pp

+1.4 pp vs KY · 15th of 120

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

7.0%

90% interval 6.2%–7.8% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

2nd Judicial Circuit Court

Judges

4 (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

Paducah

Traffic fatalities

16

30.29 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

14