Shelby County, Kentucky

• White (non-Hispanic) 38,121 77.6%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5,399 11.0%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 1,817 3.7%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 463 0.9%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 3,052 6.2%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 75 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 169 0.3%

• Under 18 10,890 22.2%
• 18–24 3,954 8.1%
• 25–44 12,319 25.1%
• 45–64 13,749 28.0%
• 65 and over 8,184 16.7%

Median household income

$93,720

90% interval $86,230–$101,210

+$29,239 vs KY · 5th of 120

Below poverty line

9.9%

90% interval 7.9%–11.9%

−5.5 pp vs KY · 111th of 120

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.9%

−0.54 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.4B

0.82% of state

Avg. annual pay

$59,195

Establishments

1,643

• Trade, transportation & utilities 3,739 22.6%
• Manufacturing 3,490 21.1%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,682 10.2%
• Professional & business services 1,546 9.4%
• Education & health services 1,419 8.6%
• Public administration 827 5.0%
• Construction 825 5.0%
• Other services 727 4.4%
• Financial activities 492 3.0%
• Natural resources & mining 187 1.1%
• Information 99 0.6%
• Unclassified 18 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 91.1% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

73.9%

+5.6 pp vs KY · 66th of 120

Median gross rent

$1,033

+$66 vs KY · 11th of 120

Owner-occupied

13,651

Renter-occupied

4,833

• Diversified

  Top three sectors employ 54% of the workforce, a relatively diversified local economy. Expect mixed employer backgrounds on the panel rather than concentration in any one institution or industry.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Information, $83,276/yr) pays 3.5× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $23,753/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 10 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 16,356 66.5%
• Democratic 7,822 31.8%
• Other / third-party 429 1.7%

• Spanish 3,941 8.5%
• Chinese 111 0.2%
• Tagalog 109 0.2%
• German or other West Germanic 94 0.2%
• Korean 48 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 27 0.1%

Households

18,484

Family households

13,281

71.9% of households

Married couples w/ children

4,360

32.8% of families

Single-mother families

785

5.9% of families

Veterans

2,673

7% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 15,867 33.0%
• Catholic 3,220 6.7%
• Mainline Protestant 2,572 5.4%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,836 3.8%
• Black Protestant 280 0.6%

Health insured

94.5%

±1.4 pp

Uninsured

5.5%

±1.4 pp

70th of 120

With a disability

13.1%

±1.2 pp

118th of 120

Bachelor's or higher

32.8%

±2.1 pp

+5.2 pp vs KY · 11th of 120

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.2%

90% interval 7.3%–9.1% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

53rd 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

Lawrenceburg, Shelbyville, Taylorsville

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

10

26.17 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

10