Calhoun County, Michigan

• White (non-Hispanic) 100,683 75.3%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 7,914 5.9%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 12,835 9.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 3,460 2.6%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 8,014 6.0%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 338 0.3%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 43 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 491 0.4%

• Under 18 30,588 22.9%
• 18–24 11,276 8.4%
• 25–44 33,140 24.8%
• 45–64 33,847 25.3%
• 65 and over 24,927 18.6%

Median household income

$65,049

90% interval $61,837–$68,261

−$7,287 vs MI · 39th of 83

Below poverty line

14.5%

90% interval 12.1%–16.9%

+1.1 pp vs MI · 25th of 83

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.3%

+0.29 pp vs. state

County GDP

$9.1B

1.3% of state

Avg. annual pay

$67,996

Establishments

2,748

• Education & health services 14,934 27.2%
• Manufacturing 10,032 18.3%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 8,978 16.3%
• Leisure & hospitality 5,162 9.4%
• Professional & business services 5,146 9.4%
• Public administration 3,147 5.7%
• Construction 1,926 3.5%
• Other services 1,334 2.4%
• Financial activities 1,212 2.2%
• Natural resources & mining 722 1.3%
• Information 205 0.4%
• Unclassified 96 0.2%

The sectors listed cover 96.3% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

72.7%

−0.5 pp vs MI · 73rd of 83

Median gross rent

$968

−$161 vs MI · 27th of 83

Owner-occupied

38,747

Renter-occupied

14,586

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 62% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Professional & business services, $116,936/yr) pays 4.7× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $24,691/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 20 workers, typical of an institutional-employer economy where large hospitals, plants, schools, and government agencies dominate. Expect many panelists to share an employer rather than work for themselves.

• Republican 38,606 56.4%
• Democratic 28,988 42.3%
• Other / third-party 896 1.3%

• Spanish 3,904 3.1%
• German or other West Germanic 683 0.5%
• Arabic 204 0.2%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 185 0.1%
• Chinese 139 0.1%
• Korean 134 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 128 0.1%
• Tagalog 126 0.1%
• Vietnamese 12 0.0%

Households

53,333

Family households

32,519

61.0% of households

Married couples w/ children

7,715

23.7% of families

Single-mother families

3,767

11.6% of families

Veterans

7,436

7.2% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 18,010 13.4%
• Catholic 11,337 8.4%
• Mainline Protestant 6,957 5.2%
• Black Protestant 4,530 3.4%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,306 1.7%
• Orthodox 200 0.1%

Health insured

94.2%

±0.7 pp

Uninsured

5.8%

±0.7 pp

30th of 83

With a disability

14.3%

±0.7 pp

67th of 83

Bachelor's or higher

22.9%

±1.1 pp

−9.5 pp vs MI · 38th of 83

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

6.8%

90% interval 6.1%–7.5% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

37th Judicial Circuit Court

Judges

4 (Circuit Court judges per circuit (general civil + felony criminal jurisdiction); District Court judges (limited jurisdiction) and Probate Court judges separate. Vintage 2026 courts.michigan.gov / Wikipedia 'Michigan Circuit Courts' table; cross-checked against MCL § 600.508.)

Court seats

Marshall

Traffic fatalities

21

20.35 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

20