Piscataquis County, Maine

• White (non-Hispanic) 16,011 92.7%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 320 1.9%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 164 1.0%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 143 0.8%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 575 3.3%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 20 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 30 0.2%

• Under 18 2,677 15.5%
• 18–24 980 5.7%
• 25–44 3,665 21.2%
• 45–64 5,204 30.1%
• 65 and over 4,737 27.4%

Median household income

$61,706

90% interval $58,298–$65,114

−$14,666 vs ME · 12th of 16

Below poverty line

14.0%

90% interval 10.9%–17.1%

+3.4 pp vs ME · 5th of 16

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.1%

+1.9 pp vs. state

County GDP

$765.7M

0.77% of state

Avg. annual pay

$48,774

Establishments

609

• Education & health services 1,620 31.2%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,082 20.9%
• Manufacturing 840 16.2%
• Professional & business services 403 7.8%
• Public administration 196 3.8%
• Construction 26 0.5%
• Information 11 0.2%
• Leisure & hospitality 8 0.2%

The sectors listed cover 80.7% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

78.8%

+4.5 pp vs ME · 5th of 16

Median gross rent

$837

−$302 vs ME · 12th of 16

Owner-occupied

6,606

Renter-occupied

1,779

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 68% 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.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Manufacturing, $55,384/yr) pays 5.6× the lowest (Information, $9,948/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Small-business scale

  Average establishment employs only 8.5 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

• Republican 6,487 63.6%
• Democratic 3,510 34.4%
• Other / third-party 208 2.0%

• Spanish 171 1.0%
• Chinese 85 0.5%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 57 0.3%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 38 0.2%
• German or other West Germanic 12 0.1%
• Vietnamese 7 0.0%
• Tagalog 7 0.0%

Households

8,385

Family households

5,286

63.0% of households

Married couples w/ children

965

18.3% of families

Single-mother families

491

9.3% of families

Veterans

1,321

9.1% of civilians 18+

• Mainline Protestant 1,139 6.8%
• Evangelical Protestant 849 5.1%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 435 2.6%
• Catholic 385 2.3%
• Black Protestant 150 0.9%

Health insured

89.9%

±1.8 pp

Uninsured

10.1%

±1.8 pp

1st of 16

With a disability

20.9%

±2.1 pp

2nd of 16

Bachelor's or higher

21.6%

±2.1 pp

−14.6 pp vs ME · 15th of 16

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

9.9%

90% interval 8.7%–11.1% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Piscataquis County Superior Court

Judges

1 (Maine Superior Court Justice, approximate primary/resident assignment per county branch. Maine has ~17 Justices statewide who rotate assignments among the 16 county branches under a unified bench (4 M.R.S. § 101), so any given trial day's working bench may differ from this count. Vintage 2026 courts.maine.gov roster.)

Court seats

Dover-Foxcroft

Traffic fatalities

2

13.71 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

1