Olmsted County, Minnesota

• White (non-Hispanic) 123,872 75.3%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 9,814 6.0%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 12,352 7.5%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 10,472 6.4%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 7,077 4.3%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 193 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 718 0.4%

• Under 18 39,364 23.9%
• 18–24 13,215 8.0%
• 25–44 46,723 28.4%
• 45–64 37,799 23.0%
• 65 and over 27,397 16.7%

Median household income

$94,129

90% interval $88,051–$100,207

+$7,009 vs MN · 12th of 87

Below poverty line

6.8%

90% interval 5.5%–8.1%

−2.5 pp vs MN · 81st of 87

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.5%

−0.84 pp vs. state

County GDP

$15.7B

3.1% of state

Avg. annual pay

$83,402

Establishments

4,036

• Education & health services 56,584 53.8%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 13,782 13.1%
• Leisure & hospitality 9,544 9.1%
• Professional & business services 6,326 6.0%
• Manufacturing 5,433 5.2%
• Construction 4,794 4.6%
• Public administration 3,520 3.3%
• Other services 2,434 2.3%
• Financial activities 2,037 1.9%
• Information 462 0.4%
• Natural resources & mining 325 0.3%

Home ownership

70.6%

−1.6 pp vs MN · 77th of 87

Median gross rent

$1,370

+$90 vs MN · 7th of 87

Owner-occupied

47,223

Renter-occupied

19,695

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 76% 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, $122,462/yr) pays 4.4× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $27,568/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 26 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.

• Democratic 49,121 54.3%
• Republican 39,467 43.6%
• Other / third-party 1,936 2.1%

• Spanish 5,217 3.4%
• Arabic 2,021 1.3%
• Vietnamese 1,240 0.8%
• Chinese 1,205 0.8%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 1,135 0.7%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 660 0.4%
• Tagalog 451 0.3%
• Korean 372 0.2%
• German or other West Germanic 303 0.2%

Households

66,918

Family households

41,544

62.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

14,023

33.8% of families

Single-mother families

2,917

7.0% of families

Veterans

7,347

5.9% of civilians 18+

• Mainline Protestant 23,685 14.5%
• Evangelical Protestant 23,539 14.5%
• Catholic 23,136 14.2%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 6,768 4.2%
• Orthodox 375 0.2%

Health insured

96.4%

±0.4 pp

Uninsured

3.6%

±0.4 pp

73rd of 87

With a disability

10.5%

±0.6 pp

78th of 87

Bachelor's or higher

49.4%

±1.4 pp

+10.0 pp vs MN · 3rd of 87

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

4.8%

90% interval 4.3%–5.3% · 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

11

8.79 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

11