Jefferson County, Ohio

• White (non-Hispanic) 57,055 88.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,243 1.9%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 3,288 5.1%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 374 0.6%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 2,280 3.5%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 32 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 246 0.4%

• Under 18 12,527 19.4%
• 18–24 6,198 9.6%
• 25–44 14,066 21.8%
• 45–64 17,214 26.7%
• 65 and over 14,513 22.5%

Median household income

$60,327

90% interval $57,033–$63,621

−$11,932 vs OH · 74th of 88

Below poverty line

17.7%

90% interval 15.0%–20.4%

+5.1 pp vs OH · 6th of 88

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.7%

+0.65 pp vs. state

County GDP

$4.4B

0.47% of state

Avg. annual pay

$54,247

Establishments

1,422

• Education & health services 6,653 34.1%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 5,131 26.3%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,859 9.5%
• Manufacturing 1,546 7.9%
• Professional & business services 1,085 5.6%
• Public administration 973 5.0%
• Other services 547 2.8%
• Information 74 0.4%
• Construction 61 0.3%
• Financial activities 10 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 91.9% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

70.5%

+3.3 pp vs OH · 65th of 88

Median gross rent

$835

−$199 vs OH · 54th of 88

Owner-occupied

19,148

Renter-occupied

7,995

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 70% 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, $92,043/yr) pays 4.8× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $19,008/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 14 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 22,317 71.4%
• Democratic 8,592 27.5%
• Other / third-party 348 1.1%

• Spanish 501 0.8%
• German or other West Germanic 180 0.3%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 132 0.2%
• Chinese 96 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 46 0.1%
• Tagalog 34 0.1%
• Arabic 13 0.0%
• Vietnamese 10 0.0%
• Korean 5 0.0%

Households

27,143

Family households

16,625

61.2% of households

Married couples w/ children

3,691

22.2% of families

Single-mother families

1,611

9.7% of families

Veterans

3,559

6.8% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 10,941 16.8%
• Mainline Protestant 7,732 11.8%
• Evangelical Protestant 5,346 8.2%
• Black Protestant 1,600 2.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 784 1.2%
• Orthodox 310 0.5%

Health insured

94.8%

±0.6 pp

Uninsured

5.2%

±0.6 pp

64th of 88

With a disability

17.4%

±1.1 pp

19th of 88

Bachelor's or higher

20.3%

±1.3 pp

−11.2 pp vs OH · 42nd of 88

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

6.9%

90% interval 6.1%–7.7% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Jefferson County Court of Common Pleas

Judges

3 (Court of Common Pleas General Division judges only; vintage 2026 supremecourt.ohio.gov roster. Domestic Relations / Juvenile / Probate Division judges separately allocated in urban counties and not counted (those divisions don't hear general civil jury trials). Small rural counties typically have 1-2 General Division judges who concurrently handle Domestic Relations and Juvenile dockets.)

Court seats

Steubenville

Traffic fatalities

8

15.39 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

7