Herkimer County, New York

• White (non-Hispanic) 54,188 90.7%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,700 2.8%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 732 1.2%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 369 0.6%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 2,430 4.1%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 39 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 71 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 228 0.4%

• Under 18 12,183 20.4%
• 18–24 4,664 7.8%
• 25–44 13,197 22.1%
• 45–64 16,395 27.4%
• 65 and over 13,318 22.3%

Median household income

$64,913

90% interval $59,502–$70,324

−$20,855 vs NY · 51st of 62

Below poverty line

14.6%

90% interval 12.2%–17.0%

+0.6 pp vs NY · 18th of 62

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.5%

−0.08 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.4B

0.1% of state

Avg. annual pay

$52,591

Establishments

1,288

• Education & health services 4,677 29.5%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 3,959 24.9%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,701 10.7%
• Public administration 1,287 8.1%
• Manufacturing 1,243 7.8%
• Construction 735 4.6%
• Professional & business services 650 4.1%
• Other services 431 2.7%
• Financial activities 312 2.0%
• Natural resources & mining 175 1.1%
• Information 102 0.6%
• Unclassified 84 0.5%

The sectors listed cover 96.7% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

76.6%

+22.3 pp vs NY · 16th of 62

Median gross rent

$823

−$798 vs NY · 57th of 62

Owner-occupied

19,723

Renter-occupied

6,018

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 65% 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 (Construction, $86,243/yr) pays 3.3× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $26,291/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 12 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 19,557 68.2%
• Democratic 9,110 31.8%

• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 796 1.4%
• Spanish 750 1.3%
• German or other West Germanic 719 1.3%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 241 0.4%
• Korean 94 0.2%
• Arabic 68 0.1%
• Chinese 48 0.1%
• Tagalog 9 0.0%
• Vietnamese 2 0.0%

Households

25,741

Family households

15,963

62.0% of households

Married couples w/ children

3,606

22.6% of families

Single-mother families

1,394

8.7% of families

Veterans

3,646

7.7% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 10,475 17.4%
• Mainline Protestant 5,778 9.6%
• Evangelical Protestant 2,079 3.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,300 2.2%
• Orthodox 180 0.3%

Health insured

95.1%

±0.9 pp

Uninsured

4.9%

±0.9 pp

22nd of 62

With a disability

15.8%

±1 pp

23rd of 62

Bachelor's or higher

22.7%

±1.7 pp

−17.5 pp vs NY · 53rd of 62

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

5.2%

90% interval 4.6%–5.8% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

5th Judicial District Supreme Court

Judges

13 (Elected Supreme Court Justices per Judicial District (general civil + felony criminal jurisdiction). Excludes Acting Supreme Court Justices designated from lower courts (would roughly double the bench in NYC + Long Island). Vintage 2026 nycourts.gov + Judiciary Law § 140-a; counts are approximate and shift with vacancies/redistributions.)

Court seats

Herkimer, Lowville, Oswego, Syracuse, Utica, Watertown

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

9

18.92 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

9