Marion County, Ohio

• White (non-Hispanic) 56,085 86.3%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2,098 3.2%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 3,035 4.7%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 395 0.6%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 2,994 4.6%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 23 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 390 0.6%

• Under 18 13,864 21.3%
• 18–24 5,323 8.2%
• 25–44 16,920 26.0%
• 45–64 16,773 25.8%
• 65 and over 12,140 18.7%

Median household income

$63,276

90% interval $58,384–$68,168

−$8,983 vs OH · 66th of 88

Below poverty line

16.0%

90% interval 13.3%–18.7%

+3.4 pp vs OH · 10th of 88

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.0%

−0.1 pp vs. state

County GDP

$3.6B

0.39% of state

Avg. annual pay

$56,200

Establishments

1,248

• Education & health services 6,604 28.2%
• Manufacturing 4,970 21.2%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 4,297 18.3%
• Leisure & hospitality 2,110 9.0%
• Professional & business services 1,974 8.4%
• Public administration 1,195 5.1%
• Financial activities 709 3.0%
• Construction 40 0.2%
• Information 28 0.1%
• Other services 4 0.0%

The sectors listed cover 93.6% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

67.5%

+0.3 pp vs OH · 79th of 88

Median gross rent

$864

−$170 vs OH · 43rd of 88

Owner-occupied

16,651

Renter-occupied

8,032

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 68% 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 (Public administration, $71,462/yr) pays 3.1× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $22,894/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• 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 19,219 70.3%
• Democratic 7,902 28.9%
• Other / third-party 234 0.9%

• Spanish 1,169 1.9%
• Arabic 334 0.5%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 152 0.2%
• German or other West Germanic 128 0.2%
• Vietnamese 105 0.2%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 77 0.1%
• Chinese 51 0.1%
• Korean 14 0.0%
• Tagalog 11 0.0%

Households

24,683

Family households

15,076

61.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

3,529

23.4% of families

Single-mother families

1,431

9.5% of families

Veterans

4,019

7.9% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 8,432 12.9%
• Mainline Protestant 5,844 8.9%
• Catholic 2,234 3.4%
• Black Protestant 1,062 1.6%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 476 0.7%

Health insured

94.6%

±0.8 pp

Uninsured

5.4%

±0.8 pp

58th of 88

With a disability

17.2%

±1.3 pp

22nd of 88

Bachelor's or higher

14.7%

±1.3 pp

−16.8 pp vs OH · 79th of 88

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

7.7%

90% interval 6.9%–8.5% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Marion County Court of Common Pleas

Judges

2 (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

Marion

Traffic fatalities

8

15.64 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

8