Pulaski County, Kentucky

• White (non-Hispanic) 60,802 92.3%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2,040 3.1%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 549 0.8%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 535 0.8%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,823 2.8%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 54 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 94 0.1%

• Under 18 14,636 22.2%
• 18–24 4,691 7.1%
• 25–44 16,041 24.3%
• 45–64 17,704 26.9%
• 65 and over 12,825 19.5%

Median household income

$56,318

90% interval $52,356–$60,280

−$8,163 vs KY · 72nd of 120

Below poverty line

20.1%

90% interval 17.3%–22.9%

+4.7 pp vs KY · 37th of 120

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.8%

+0.33 pp vs. state

County GDP

$3.0B

1.03% of state

Avg. annual pay

$49,324

Establishments

2,257

• Education & health services 8,612 32.2%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 5,482 20.5%
• Manufacturing 3,468 13.0%
• Leisure & hospitality 2,658 9.9%
• Professional & business services 2,140 8.0%
• Public administration 1,099 4.1%
• Financial activities 941 3.5%
• Other services 598 2.2%

The sectors listed cover 93.4% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

72.5%

+4.2 pp vs KY · 71st of 120

Median gross rent

$803

−$164 vs KY · 46th of 120

Owner-occupied

18,996

Renter-occupied

7,214

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 66% 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 (Financial activities, $58,236/yr) pays 2.7× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $21,557/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 26,051 82.1%
• Democratic 5,351 16.9%
• Other / third-party 323 1.0%

• Spanish 737 1.2%
• German or other West Germanic 183 0.3%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 81 0.1%
• Tagalog 58 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 53 0.1%
• Chinese 45 0.1%
• Vietnamese 35 0.1%
• Arabic 12 0.0%

Households

26,210

Family households

17,142

65.4% of households

Married couples w/ children

4,319

25.2% of families

Single-mother families

1,609

9.4% of families

Veterans

3,911

7.6% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 31,315 48.2%
• Mainline Protestant 2,332 3.6%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,038 1.6%
• Catholic 798 1.2%
• Black Protestant 175 0.3%

Health insured

93.9%

±0.7 pp

Uninsured

6.1%

±0.7 pp

54th of 120

With a disability

23.2%

±1.4 pp

40th of 120

Bachelor's or higher

18.1%

±1.7 pp

−9.5 pp vs KY · 52nd of 120

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

9.1%

90% interval 8.1%–10.1% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

28th 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

Mount Vernon, Somerset, Stanford

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

18

35.11 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

18