Hampshire County, Massachusetts

• White (non-Hispanic) 130,171 80.3%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 11,964 7.4%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 4,019 2.5%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 8,547 5.3%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 6,581 4.1%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 94 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 16 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 636 0.4%

• Under 18 23,042 14.2%
• 18–24 38,154 23.5%
• 25–44 32,486 20.0%
• 45–64 36,908 22.8%
• 65 and over 31,438 19.4%

Median household income

$82,817

90% interval $77,138–$88,496

−$21,752 vs MA · 10th of 14

Below poverty line

12.3%

90% interval 10.6%–14.0%

+2.5 pp vs MA · 3rd of 14

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.3%

−0.36 pp vs. state

County GDP

$10.4B

1.33% of state

Avg. annual pay

$62,831

Establishments

5,024

• Education & health services 22,405 34.5%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 9,832 15.2%
• Leisure & hospitality 6,782 10.5%
• Professional & business services 4,136 6.4%
• Public administration 2,964 4.6%
• Manufacturing 2,634 4.1%
• Other services 2,077 3.2%
• Financial activities 1,529 2.4%
• Construction 352 0.5%
• Information 189 0.3%

The sectors listed cover 81.5% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

67.8%

+5.3 pp vs MA · 8th of 14

Median gross rent

$1,388

−$374 vs MA · 9th of 14

Owner-occupied

42,116

Renter-occupied

19,998

• 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.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $85,844/yr) pays 3.1× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $28,012/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 13 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Democratic 58,617 69.5%
• Republican 23,256 27.6%
• Other / third-party 2,472 2.9%

• Spanish 6,779 4.3%
• Chinese 2,604 1.7%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 1,756 1.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 1,300 0.8%
• German or other West Germanic 694 0.4%
• Korean 560 0.4%
• Vietnamese 557 0.4%
• Arabic 446 0.3%
• Tagalog 166 0.1%

Households

62,114

Family households

36,004

58.0% of households

Married couples w/ children

8,506

23.6% of families

Single-mother families

3,157

8.8% of families

Veterans

7,119

5.1% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 21,616 13.3%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 8,886 5.5%
• Mainline Protestant 6,647 4.1%
• Evangelical Protestant 1,337 0.8%
• Orthodox 300 0.2%
• Black Protestant 192 0.1%

Health insured

98.3%

±0.3 pp

Uninsured

1.7%

±0.3 pp

14th of 14

With a disability

12.6%

±0.7 pp

7th of 14

Bachelor's or higher

51.6%

±1.7 pp

+4.3 pp vs MA · 5th of 14

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

2.7%

90% interval 2.4%–3.0% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Hampshire County Superior Court

Judges

2 (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

Northampton

Traffic fatalities

13

9.35 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

13