Seneca County, Ohio

• White (non-Hispanic) 48,097 87.8%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3,123 5.7%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 1,299 2.4%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 288 0.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,654 3.0%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 92 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 12 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 205 0.4%

• Under 18 11,728 21.4%
• 18–24 5,885 10.7%
• 25–44 12,861 23.5%
• 45–64 13,758 25.1%
• 65 and over 10,538 19.2%

Median household income

$65,260

90% interval $59,843–$70,677

−$6,999 vs OH · 59th of 88

Below poverty line

13.0%

90% interval 10.8%–15.2%

+0.4 pp vs OH · 42nd of 88

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.0%

−0.02 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.8B

0.3% of state

Avg. annual pay

$51,007

Establishments

1,254

• Education & health services 4,751 25.4%
• Manufacturing 4,355 23.3%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 3,546 19.0%
• Leisure & hospitality 2,160 11.6%
• Professional & business services 893 4.8%
• Other services 615 3.3%
• Public administration 586 3.1%
• Construction 36 0.2%
• Information 35 0.2%

The sectors listed cover 90.8% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

73.4%

+6.2 pp vs OH · 53rd of 88

Median gross rent

$856

−$178 vs OH · 46th of 88

Owner-occupied

16,346

Renter-occupied

5,933

• 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 (Manufacturing, $66,400/yr) pays 3.6× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $18,419/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• 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 17,241 68.2%
• Democratic 7,765 30.7%
• Other / third-party 256 1.0%

• Spanish 821 1.6%
• Korean 110 0.2%
• German or other West Germanic 79 0.2%
• Arabic 31 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 28 0.1%
• Chinese 21 0.0%
• Tagalog 11 0.0%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 9 0.0%
• Vietnamese 3 0.0%

Households

22,279

Family households

14,106

63.3% of households

Married couples w/ children

3,343

23.7% of families

Single-mother families

1,317

9.3% of families

Veterans

2,912

6.8% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 15,006 27.2%
• Mainline Protestant 6,019 10.9%
• Evangelical Protestant 2,337 4.2%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 813 1.5%
• Black Protestant 500 0.9%

Health insured

94.7%

±0.8 pp

Uninsured

5.3%

±0.8 pp

62nd of 88

With a disability

15.2%

±1 pp

52nd of 88

Bachelor's or higher

20.6%

±1.7 pp

−10.9 pp vs OH · 40th of 88

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

7.3%

90% interval 6.5%–8.1% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Seneca 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

Tiffin

Traffic fatalities

13

30.2 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

9