Wood County, Ohio

• White (non-Hispanic) 112,891 85.5%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 8,677 6.6%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 2,736 2.1%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 2,775 2.1%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 4,480 3.4%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 160 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 124 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 221 0.2%

• Under 18 26,719 20.2%
• 18–24 21,416 16.2%
• 25–44 31,887 24.1%
• 45–64 30,002 22.7%
• 65 and over 22,040 16.7%

Median household income

$77,522

90% interval $71,815–$83,229

+$5,263 vs OH · 22nd of 88

Below poverty line

11.0%

90% interval 9.7%–12.3%

−1.6 pp vs OH · 55th of 88

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.8%

−0.23 pp vs. state

County GDP

$10.7B

1.16% of state

Avg. annual pay

$58,550

Establishments

3,508

• Trade, transportation & utilities 21,042 28.1%
• Education & health services 14,272 19.1%
• Manufacturing 13,980 18.7%
• Leisure & hospitality 7,633 10.2%
• Professional & business services 4,939 6.6%
• Construction 4,802 6.4%
• Other services 2,513 3.4%
• Public administration 2,145 2.9%
• Financial activities 1,971 2.6%
• Information 1,085 1.4%
• Natural resources & mining 485 0.6%
• Unclassified 2 0.0%

Home ownership

64.4%

−2.8 pp vs OH · 82nd of 88

Median gross rent

$972

−$62 vs OH · 20th of 88

Owner-occupied

34,939

Renter-occupied

19,318

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 66% 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 (Construction, $97,903/yr) pays 4.8× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $20,367/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 21 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 36,877 54.6%
• Democratic 30,016 44.4%
• Other / third-party 672 1.0%

• Spanish 3,128 2.5%
• Chinese 587 0.5%
• German or other West Germanic 350 0.3%
• Arabic 247 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 243 0.2%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 209 0.2%
• Tagalog 120 0.1%
• Vietnamese 63 0.1%
• Korean 60 0.0%

Households

54,257

Family households

31,540

58.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

9,223

29.2% of families

Single-mother families

2,753

8.7% of families

Veterans

5,955

5.7% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 28,165 21.3%
• Catholic 23,096 17.5%
• Mainline Protestant 14,576 11.0%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 4,029 3.0%
• Black Protestant 330 0.2%
• Orthodox 100 0.1%

Health insured

95.8%

±0.5 pp

Uninsured

4.2%

±0.5 pp

79th of 88

With a disability

12.5%

±0.8 pp

79th of 88

Bachelor's or higher

36.5%

±1.5 pp

+5.0 pp vs OH · 9th of 88

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

6.2%

90% interval 5.5%–6.9% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Wood 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

Bowling Green

Traffic fatalities

19

18.04 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

19