Shiawassee County, Michigan

• White (non-Hispanic) 63,015 92.7%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2,144 3.2%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 289 0.4%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 274 0.4%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,938 2.9%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 94 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 237 0.3%

• Under 18 14,070 20.7%
• 18–24 5,271 7.8%
• 25–44 16,072 23.6%
• 45–64 19,105 28.1%
• 65 and over 13,473 19.8%

Median household income

$71,235

90% interval $67,313–$75,157

−$1,101 vs MI · 24th of 83

Below poverty line

12.4%

90% interval 10.3%–14.5%

−1.0 pp vs MI · 46th of 83

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.2%

+0.17 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.4B

0.34% of state

Avg. annual pay

$54,419

Establishments

1,227

• Education & health services 4,732 30.5%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 3,536 22.8%
• Manufacturing 1,899 12.3%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,480 9.6%
• Professional & business services 934 6.0%
• Construction 822 5.3%
• Other services 389 2.5%
• Financial activities 336 2.2%
• Information 167 1.1%
• Natural resources & mining 83 0.5%
• Unclassified 25 0.2%
• Public administration 18 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 93.1% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

80.1%

+6.9 pp vs MI · 48th of 83

Median gross rent

$899

−$230 vs MI · 38th of 83

Owner-occupied

22,536

Renter-occupied

5,590

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 66% 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.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $68,507/yr) pays 3.2× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $21,571/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.

• Republican 24,718 60.8%
• Democratic 15,335 37.7%
• Other / third-party 629 1.5%

• Spanish 566 0.9%
• German or other West Germanic 211 0.3%
• Arabic 152 0.2%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 73 0.1%
• Tagalog 45 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 44 0.1%
• Chinese 35 0.1%

Households

28,126

Family households

18,299

65.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

4,648

25.4% of families

Single-mother families

1,249

6.8% of families

Veterans

3,426

6.4% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 7,255 10.7%
• Catholic 4,433 6.5%
• Mainline Protestant 2,752 4.0%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,380 3.5%

Health insured

96.0%

±0.6 pp

Uninsured

4.0%

±0.6 pp

72nd of 83

With a disability

16.3%

±1 pp

45th of 83

Bachelor's or higher

20.0%

±1.2 pp

−12.4 pp vs MI · 58th of 83

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

5.8%

90% interval 5.2%–6.4% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

35th Judicial Circuit Court

Judges

1 (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

Corunna

Traffic fatalities

13

24.11 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

12