Pike County, Kentucky

• White (non-Hispanic) 53,274 93.9%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 712 1.3%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 353 0.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 324 0.6%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 2,026 3.6%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 14 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 24 0.0%

• Under 18 11,494 20.3%
• 18–24 4,517 8.0%
• 25–44 13,464 23.7%
• 45–64 15,851 27.9%
• 65 and over 11,401 20.1%

Median household income

$46,499

90% interval $42,152–$50,846

−$17,982 vs KY · 99th of 120

Below poverty line

22.4%

90% interval 18.5%–26.3%

+7.0 pp vs KY · 26th of 120

Unemployment (12-mo)

6.3%

+1.87 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.7B

0.9% of state

Avg. annual pay

$53,127

Establishments

1,620

• Education & health services 6,359 31.5%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 4,437 22.0%
• Leisure & hospitality 2,000 9.9%
• Professional & business services 1,074 5.3%
• Natural resources & mining 912 4.5%
• Financial activities 768 3.8%
• Manufacturing 645 3.2%
• Public administration 556 2.8%
• Construction 509 2.5%

The sectors listed cover 85.6% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

75.3%

+7.0 pp vs KY · 52nd of 120

Median gross rent

$858

−$109 vs KY · 33rd of 120

Owner-occupied

18,287

Renter-occupied

5,997

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 63% 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 (Natural resources & mining, $73,383/yr) pays 3.7× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $19,904/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• 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 19,684 82.2%
• Democratic 4,025 16.8%
• Other / third-party 237 1.0%

• Spanish 295 0.5%
• German or other West Germanic 79 0.1%
• Tagalog 72 0.1%
• Arabic 61 0.1%
• Chinese 52 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 44 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 22 0.0%
• Vietnamese 3 0.0%

Households

24,284

Family households

15,577

64.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

3,970

25.5% of families

Single-mother families

1,136

7.3% of families

Veterans

1,911

4.2% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 16,883 28.8%
• Mainline Protestant 1,694 2.9%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 547 0.9%
• Black Protestant 226 0.4%
• Catholic 214 0.4%

Health insured

95.9%

±0.9 pp

Uninsured

4.1%

±0.9 pp

102nd of 120

With a disability

29.8%

±1.7 pp

8th of 120

Bachelor's or higher

17.8%

±1.7 pp

−9.8 pp vs KY · 55th of 120

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.4%

90% interval 7.4%–9.4% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

35th 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

Pikeville

Traffic fatalities

19

42 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

18