Barnstable County, Massachusetts

• White (non-Hispanic) 197,297 85.2%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 8,561 3.7%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 6,441 2.8%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 3,402 1.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 12,114 5.2%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 770 0.3%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 3,083 1.3%

• Under 18 32,704 14.1%
• 18–24 15,232 6.6%
• 25–44 42,440 18.3%
• 45–64 64,537 27.9%
• 65 and over 76,755 33.1%

Median household income

$88,495

90% interval $83,569–$93,421

−$16,074 vs MA · 9th of 14

Below poverty line

8.6%

90% interval 7.0%–10.2%

−1.2 pp vs MA · 9th of 14

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.2%

+0.61 pp vs. state

County GDP

$19.3B

2.48% of state

Avg. annual pay

$67,176

Establishments

9,960

• Education & health services 22,204 23.0%
• Leisure & hospitality 19,662 20.4%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 19,502 20.2%
• Professional & business services 9,739 10.1%
• Construction 7,707 8.0%
• Public administration 3,974 4.1%
• Other services 3,597 3.7%
• Financial activities 3,347 3.5%
• Information 188 0.2%

The sectors listed cover 93.2% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

81.1%

+18.6 pp vs MA · 2nd of 14

Median gross rent

$1,678

−$84 vs MA · 7th of 14

Owner-occupied

85,753

Renter-occupied

20,024

• 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 (Financial activities, $111,266/yr) pays 2.6× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $42,375/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Small-business scale

  Average establishment employs only 9.7 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

• Democratic 88,129 59.6%
• Republican 57,451 38.9%
• Other / third-party 2,268 1.5%

• Spanish 5,293 2.4%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 1,806 0.8%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 1,793 0.8%
• Chinese 1,165 0.5%
• German or other West Germanic 936 0.4%
• Arabic 353 0.2%
• Tagalog 129 0.1%
• Vietnamese 122 0.1%
• Korean 8 0.0%

Households

105,777

Family households

65,212

61.7% of households

Married couples w/ children

12,742

19.5% of families

Single-mother families

3,372

5.2% of families

Veterans

14,125

7.1% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 54,830 23.9%
• Mainline Protestant 14,348 6.3%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 6,691 2.9%
• Evangelical Protestant 5,976 2.6%
• Black Protestant 454 0.2%
• Orthodox 395 0.2%

Health insured

97.3%

±0.4 pp

Uninsured

2.7%

±0.4 pp

6th of 14

With a disability

14.8%

±0.6 pp

5th of 14

Bachelor's or higher

48.2%

±1.3 pp

+0.9 pp vs MA · 7th of 14

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

3.1%

90% interval 2.7%–3.5% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Barnstable County Superior Court

Judges

3 (Superior Court Justice base assignments per county (general civil + felony criminal jurisdiction); vintage 2026 mass.gov/orgs/superior-court. Under Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 212, Justices may be reassigned across counties by the Chief Justice of the Superior Court Department; counts here reflect typical base allocations rather than a permanently-fixed roster. Other Trial Court departments (District Court, Boston Municipal Court, Probate and Family Court, Juvenile Court, Land Court, Housing Court) handle limited-jurisdiction matters and are not counted here.)

Court seats

Barnstable

Traffic fatalities

13

6.53 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

12