Perry County, Kentucky

• White (non-Hispanic) 25,765 93.7%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 67 0.2%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 470 1.7%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 165 0.6%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 920 3.3%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 34 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 71 0.3%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 7 0.0%

• Under 18 6,435 23.4%
• 18–24 1,813 6.6%
• 25–44 6,810 24.8%
• 45–64 7,493 27.2%
• 65 and over 4,948 18.0%

Median household income

$44,945

90% interval $40,030–$49,860

−$19,536 vs KY · 101st of 120

Below poverty line

24.5%

90% interval 19.7%–29.3%

+9.1 pp vs KY · 20th of 120

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.7%

+0.22 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.3B

0.44% of state

Avg. annual pay

$53,116

Establishments

943

• Education & health services 3,684 32.6%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 2,295 20.3%
• Leisure & hospitality 784 6.9%
• Professional & business services 782 6.9%
• Natural resources & mining 538 4.8%
• Public administration 494 4.4%
• Financial activities 311 2.8%
• Other services 247 2.2%

The sectors listed cover 80.8% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

70.4%

+2.1 pp vs KY · 88th of 120

Median gross rent

$798

−$169 vs KY · 49th of 120

Owner-occupied

7,800

Renter-occupied

3,278

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 60% 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, $97,217/yr) pays 4.7× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $20,573/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• 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 7,913 79.2%
• Democratic 1,966 19.7%
• Other / third-party 113 1.1%

• Spanish 198 0.8%
• Tagalog 81 0.3%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 23 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 23 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 11 0.0%
• Korean 11 0.0%
• Arabic 7 0.0%

Households

11,078

Family households

7,684

69.4% of households

Married couples w/ children

2,026

26.4% of families

Single-mother families

830

10.8% of families

Veterans

1,056

5% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 9,101 32.0%
• Mainline Protestant 396 1.4%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 226 0.8%
• Catholic 155 0.5%
• Black Protestant 100 0.4%

Health insured

97.6%

±0.6 pp

Uninsured

2.4%

±0.6 pp

118th of 120

With a disability

30.9%

±2.6 pp

6th of 120

Bachelor's or higher

14.8%

±2.1 pp

−12.8 pp vs KY · 88th of 120

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.2%

90% interval 7.2%–9.2% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

33rd 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

Hazard

Traffic fatalities

1

4.75 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

1