Ross County, Ohio

• White (non-Hispanic) 67,635 88.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,092 1.4%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 4,178 5.5%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 417 0.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 2,707 3.5%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 146 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 26 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 291 0.4%

• Under 18 16,098 21.0%
• 18–24 5,785 7.6%
• 25–44 20,022 26.2%
• 45–64 20,890 27.3%
• 65 and over 13,697 17.9%

Median household income

$67,519

90% interval $63,048–$71,990

−$4,740 vs OH · 50th of 88

Below poverty line

13.4%

90% interval 10.8%–16.0%

+0.8 pp vs OH · 34th of 88

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.2%

+1.14 pp vs. state

County GDP

$3.9B

0.42% of state

Avg. annual pay

$59,197

Establishments

1,549

• Education & health services 9,408 32.7%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 5,818 20.2%
• Manufacturing 4,093 14.2%
• Leisure & hospitality 3,355 11.7%
• Public administration 2,163 7.5%
• Professional & business services 1,393 4.8%
• Construction 880 3.1%
• Financial activities 675 2.3%
• Other services 542 1.9%
• Information 315 1.1%
• Natural resources & mining 95 0.3%

Home ownership

69.6%

+2.4 pp vs OH · 69th of 88

Median gross rent

$906

−$128 vs OH · 36th of 88

Owner-occupied

20,749

Renter-occupied

9,059

• 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.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Construction, $74,824/yr) pays 3.3× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $22,887/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 22,801 69.2%
• Democratic 9,846 29.9%
• Other / third-party 283 0.9%

• Spanish 584 0.8%
• German or other West Germanic 285 0.4%
• Tagalog 90 0.1%
• Chinese 85 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 75 0.1%
• Arabic 38 0.1%
• Vietnamese 14 0.0%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 4 0.0%

Households

29,808

Family households

18,377

61.7% of households

Married couples w/ children

4,475

24.4% of families

Single-mother families

1,947

10.6% of families

Veterans

4,718

7.8% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 29,296 38.0%
• Mainline Protestant 4,003 5.2%
• Catholic 3,521 4.6%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 844 1.1%
• Black Protestant 370 0.5%

Health insured

93.2%

±1.1 pp

Uninsured

6.8%

±1.1 pp

31st of 88

With a disability

18.9%

±1.3 pp

10th of 88

Bachelor's or higher

17.4%

±1.4 pp

−14.1 pp vs OH · 61st 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

Ross 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

Chillicothe

Traffic fatalities

10

16.56 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

8