Josephine County, Oregon

• White (non-Hispanic) 73,076 82.9%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 7,777 8.8%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 367 0.4%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 693 0.8%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 5,096 5.8%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 323 0.4%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 112 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 735 0.8%

• Under 18 16,970 19.2%
• 18–24 5,362 6.1%
• 25–44 19,697 22.3%
• 45–64 22,151 25.1%
• 65 and over 23,999 27.2%

Median household income

$60,157

90% interval $54,149–$66,165

−$24,740 vs OR · 33rd of 36

Below poverty line

13.8%

90% interval 11.2%–16.4%

+2.1 pp vs OR · 15th of 36

Unemployment (12-mo)

7.0%

+1.81 pp vs. state

County GDP

$3.9B

1.19% of state

Avg. annual pay

$51,430

Establishments

2,640

• Education & health services 12,190 39.5%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 5,237 17.0%
• Leisure & hospitality 3,337 10.8%
• Manufacturing 2,737 8.9%
• Professional & business services 1,699 5.5%
• Financial activities 1,291 4.2%
• Public administration 1,031 3.3%
• Other services 1,019 3.3%
• Construction 75 0.2%
• Natural resources & mining 68 0.2%

The sectors listed cover 93.0% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

71.7%

+8.4 pp vs OR · 11th of 36

Median gross rent

$1,194

−$331 vs OR · 18th of 36

Owner-occupied

26,333

Renter-occupied

10,382

• 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, $115,424/yr) pays 4.5× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $25,568/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 12 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 30,696 63.3%
• Democratic 16,592 34.2%
• Other / third-party 1,233 2.5%

• Spanish 2,810 3.3%
• German or other West Germanic 539 0.6%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 227 0.3%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 187 0.2%
• Tagalog 106 0.1%
• Chinese 73 0.1%
• Vietnamese 37 0.0%
• Korean 15 0.0%

Households

36,715

Family households

23,749

64.7% of households

Married couples w/ children

5,538

23.3% of families

Single-mother families

2,222

9.4% of families

Veterans

8,082

11.4% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 14,820 16.8%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 6,216 7.1%
• Catholic 4,647 5.3%
• Mainline Protestant 1,579 1.8%

Health insured

93.4%

±1 pp

Uninsured

6.6%

±1 pp

14th of 36

With a disability

20.0%

±1.3 pp

13th of 36

Bachelor's or higher

19.7%

±1.4 pp

−17.1 pp vs OR · 28th of 36

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

7.8%

90% interval 6.9%–8.7% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

14th Judicial District Circuit Court

Judges

3 (Circuit Court judges per district (general civil + felony criminal jurisdiction); vintage 2026 courts.oregon.gov; cross-checked against ORS § 3.041. Justice Courts (limited jurisdiction: misdemeanors, traffic, small claims under $10K) operate per county and are not counted here. Multnomah County operates a separate County Court for probate / juvenile matters.)

Court seats

Grants Pass

Traffic fatalities

14

19.66 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

12