Muskingum County, Ohio

• White (non-Hispanic) 78,242 90.5%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,146 1.3%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 2,668 3.1%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 398 0.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 3,591 4.2%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 38 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 12 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 316 0.4%

• Under 18 19,589 22.7%
• 18–24 7,350 8.5%
• 25–44 21,047 24.4%
• 45–64 22,354 25.9%
• 65 and over 16,071 18.6%

Median household income

$63,161

90% interval $57,508–$68,814

−$9,098 vs OH · 67th of 88

Below poverty line

13.0%

90% interval 10.9%–15.1%

+0.4 pp vs OH · 41st of 88

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.0%

−0.07 pp vs. state

County GDP

$5.1B

0.56% of state

Avg. annual pay

$54,373

Establishments

2,007

• Education & health services 11,479 32.1%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 8,524 23.8%
• Leisure & hospitality 3,972 11.1%
• Manufacturing 3,292 9.2%
• Professional & business services 1,970 5.5%
• Construction 1,478 4.1%
• Other services 1,249 3.5%
• Public administration 1,046 2.9%
• Financial activities 978 2.7%
• Information 907 2.5%
• Natural resources & mining 862 2.4%
• Unclassified 2 0.0%

Home ownership

68.2%

+1.0 pp vs OH · 75th of 88

Median gross rent

$833

−$201 vs OH · 55th of 88

Owner-occupied

23,423

Renter-occupied

10,934

• 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 (Natural resources & mining, $100,589/yr) pays 4.7× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $21,234/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 18 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 28,147 71.6%
• Democratic 10,874 27.7%
• Other / third-party 306 0.8%

• Spanish 738 0.9%
• German or other West Germanic 699 0.9%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 118 0.1%
• Tagalog 68 0.1%
• Chinese 50 0.1%
• Arabic 31 0.0%
• Korean 26 0.0%
• Vietnamese 13 0.0%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 8 0.0%

Households

34,357

Family households

22,050

64.2% of households

Married couples w/ children

5,139

23.3% of families

Single-mother families

2,794

12.7% of families

Veterans

4,508

6.7% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 16,606 19.2%
• Mainline Protestant 8,970 10.4%
• Catholic 4,571 5.3%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 738 0.9%
• Black Protestant 300 0.3%

Health insured

93.4%

±0.8 pp

Uninsured

6.6%

±0.8 pp

34th of 88

With a disability

15.9%

±1 pp

39th of 88

Bachelor's or higher

20.6%

±1.5 pp

−10.9 pp vs OH · 39th of 88

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.1%

90% interval 7.2%–9.0% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Muskingum 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

Zanesville

Traffic fatalities

14

20.95 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

13