Portage County, Ohio

• White (non-Hispanic) 139,345 86.0%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3,717 2.3%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 8,087 5.0%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 3,499 2.2%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 6,550 4.0%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 130 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 628 0.4%

• Under 18 29,466 18.2%
• 18–24 24,090 14.9%
• 25–44 37,649 23.2%
• 45–64 41,049 25.3%
• 65 and over 29,702 18.3%

Median household income

$79,710

90% interval $73,736–$85,684

+$7,451 vs OH · 19th of 88

Below poverty line

11.7%

90% interval 10.1%–13.3%

−0.9 pp vs OH · 47th of 88

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.0%

−0.06 pp vs. state

County GDP

$8.8B

0.95% of state

Avg. annual pay

$60,907

Establishments

3,765

• Education & health services 14,389 25.3%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 12,276 21.6%
• Manufacturing 10,309 18.2%
• Leisure & hospitality 6,409 11.3%
• Professional & business services 4,906 8.6%
• Public administration 1,874 3.3%
• Financial activities 1,634 2.9%
• Other services 1,532 2.7%
• Construction 141 0.2%
• Information 141 0.2%

The sectors listed cover 94.4% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

70.1%

+2.9 pp vs OH · 67th of 88

Median gross rent

$1,064

+$30 vs OH · 14th of 88

Owner-occupied

45,768

Renter-occupied

19,481

• 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.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $86,986/yr) pays 4.0× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $21,556/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 15 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 47,681 57.3%
• Democratic 34,759 41.8%
• Other / third-party 741 0.9%

• Spanish 1,732 1.1%
• German or other West Germanic 619 0.4%
• Arabic 598 0.4%
• Chinese 252 0.2%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 234 0.2%
• Tagalog 226 0.1%
• Korean 100 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 89 0.1%
• Vietnamese 3 0.0%

Households

65,249

Family households

40,074

61.4% of households

Married couples w/ children

10,361

25.9% of families

Single-mother families

3,278

8.2% of families

Veterans

8,134

6.1% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 16,667 10.3%
• Evangelical Protestant 16,061 9.9%
• Mainline Protestant 7,703 4.8%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 4,121 2.5%
• Black Protestant 1,015 0.6%
• Orthodox 200 0.1%

Health insured

95.0%

±0.7 pp

Uninsured

5.0%

±0.7 pp

69th of 88

With a disability

13.5%

±0.8 pp

70th of 88

Bachelor's or higher

32.5%

±1.2 pp

+1.0 pp vs OH · 14th of 88

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

7.0%

90% interval 6.3%–7.7% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Portage County Court of Common Pleas

Judges

4 (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

Ravenna

Traffic fatalities

12

9.06 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

11