Adams County, Pennsylvania

• White (non-Hispanic) 92,120 86.8%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 8,213 7.7%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 1,716 1.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 1,000 0.9%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 2,606 2.5%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 19 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 5 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 436 0.4%

• Under 18 20,638 19.4%
• 18–24 10,628 10.0%
• 25–44 23,128 21.8%
• 45–64 28,591 26.9%
• 65 and over 23,130 21.8%

Median household income

$85,854

90% interval $82,829–$88,879

+$8,322 vs PA · 8th of 67

Below poverty line

7.7%

90% interval 6.0%–9.4%

−3.9 pp vs PA · 63rd of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.5%

−0.75 pp vs. state

County GDP

$4.7B

0.47% of state

Avg. annual pay

$57,008

Establishments

2,252

• Education & health services 7,632 23.0%
• Manufacturing 7,002 21.1%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 5,154 15.5%
• Leisure & hospitality 4,525 13.6%
• Professional & business services 1,830 5.5%
• Natural resources & mining 1,728 5.2%
• Construction 1,561 4.7%
• Other services 1,082 3.3%
• Financial activities 811 2.4%
• Public administration 645 1.9%
• Information 232 0.7%

The sectors listed cover 96.9% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

78.9%

+9.6 pp vs PA · 11th of 67

Median gross rent

$1,115

−$94 vs PA · 18th of 67

Owner-occupied

32,214

Renter-occupied

8,627

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 60% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Public administration, $115,448/yr) pays 4.8× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $24,105/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 40,248 66.4%
• Democratic 19,842 32.7%
• Other / third-party 560 0.9%

• Spanish 4,730 4.7%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 528 0.5%
• German or other West Germanic 336 0.3%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 162 0.2%
• Vietnamese 159 0.2%
• Chinese 89 0.1%
• Arabic 62 0.1%
• Tagalog 51 0.1%
• Korean 20 0.0%

Households

40,841

Family households

28,229

69.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

6,695

23.7% of families

Single-mother families

1,466

5.2% of families

Veterans

6,748

7.9% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 15,097 14.5%
• Mainline Protestant 12,901 12.4%
• Evangelical Protestant 10,583 10.2%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,128 2.0%
• Black Protestant 192 0.2%

Health insured

94.0%

±0.7 pp

Uninsured

6.0%

±0.7 pp

29th of 67

With a disability

13.8%

±0.9 pp

52nd of 67

Bachelor's or higher

25.8%

±1.4 pp

−9.4 pp vs PA · 27th of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

7.9%

90% interval 7.1%–8.7% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

51st Judicial District Court of Common Pleas

Judges

2 (Court of Common Pleas judges per district (general civil + felony criminal + family + orphans' court jurisdiction); vintage 2026 pacourts.us; cross-checked against 42 Pa. C.S. § 911. Magisterial District Judges (limited jurisdiction: preliminary criminal, landlord-tenant, small civil up to $12K) are separately allocated and not counted here. Philadelphia Municipal Court (limited civil + minor criminal in Philadelphia only) also separate.)

Court seats

Gettysburg

Traffic fatalities

13

15.21 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

13