Mower County, Minnesota

• White (non-Hispanic) 29,266 72.5%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5,494 13.6%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 1,376 3.4%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 2,511 6.2%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,152 2.9%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 34 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 218 0.5%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 292 0.7%

• Under 18 10,284 25.5%
• 18–24 3,303 8.2%
• 25–44 9,970 24.7%
• 45–64 9,281 23.0%
• 65 and over 7,505 18.6%

Median household income

$70,499

90% interval $65,185–$75,813

−$16,621 vs MN · 67th of 87

Below poverty line

9.2%

90% interval 7.0%–11.4%

−0.1 pp vs MN · 59th of 87

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.2%

−0.16 pp vs. state

County GDP

$3.0B

0.59% of state

Avg. annual pay

$63,525

Establishments

892

• Education & health services 4,418 26.0%
• Manufacturing 3,991 23.5%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 2,906 17.1%
• Professional & business services 2,022 11.9%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,375 8.1%
• Public administration 690 4.1%
• Construction 549 3.2%
• Other services 410 2.4%
• Financial activities 292 1.7%
• Natural resources & mining 170 1.0%
• Information 151 0.9%

Home ownership

77.6%

+5.4 pp vs MN · 57th of 87

Median gross rent

$927

−$353 vs MN · 34th of 87

Owner-occupied

12,195

Renter-occupied

3,524

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 67% 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 (Professional & business services, $117,209/yr) pays 6.0× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $19,633/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 19 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 10,297 54.4%
• Democratic 8,312 43.9%
• Other / third-party 317 1.7%

• Spanish 4,104 10.9%
• Vietnamese 278 0.7%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 239 0.6%
• German or other West Germanic 222 0.6%
• Chinese 71 0.2%
• Tagalog 32 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 27 0.1%
• Arabic 22 0.1%
• Korean 21 0.1%

Households

15,719

Family households

10,460

66.5% of households

Married couples w/ children

3,377

32.3% of families

Single-mother families

891

8.5% of families

Veterans

2,075

6.9% of civilians 18+

• Mainline Protestant 9,992 25.0%
• Catholic 8,892 22.2%
• Evangelical Protestant 3,158 7.9%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 498 1.2%

Health insured

92.9%

±1.4 pp

Uninsured

7.1%

±1.4 pp

10th of 87

With a disability

12.6%

±1.2 pp

51st of 87

Bachelor's or higher

23.9%

±1.8 pp

−15.5 pp vs MN · 51st of 87

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.7%

90% interval 7.8%–9.6% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

3rd Judicial District Court

Judges

23 (District Court judges per judicial district; counts vintage 2026 mncourts.gov and may shift modestly as the Legislature reallocates seats between districts (Minn. Stat. § 2.724).)

Court seats

Albert Lea, Austin, Caledonia, Faribault, Mantorville, Owatonna, Preston, Rochester, Wabasha, Waseca, Winona

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

2

6.65 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

1