Armstrong County, Pennsylvania

• White (non-Hispanic) 61,357 94.9%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 605 0.9%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 608 0.9%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 211 0.3%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,717 2.7%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 8 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 116 0.2%

• Under 18 12,227 18.9%
• 18–24 4,190 6.5%
• 25–44 14,297 22.1%
• 45–64 18,387 28.5%
• 65 and over 15,521 24.0%

Median household income

$63,472

90% interval $58,721–$68,223

−$14,060 vs PA · 46th of 67

Below poverty line

12.4%

90% interval 10.4%–14.4%

+0.8 pp vs PA · 29th of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.6%

+0.36 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.8B

0.28% of state

Avg. annual pay

$53,247

Establishments

1,445

• Education & health services 4,312 27.8%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 3,296 21.3%
• Manufacturing 1,522 9.8%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,447 9.3%
• Construction 1,111 7.2%
• Natural resources & mining 878 5.7%
• Professional & business services 732 4.7%
• Public administration 703 4.5%
• Other services 694 4.5%
• Financial activities 523 3.4%
• Information 102 0.7%

The sectors listed cover 98.9% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

78.8%

+9.5 pp vs PA · 12th of 67

Median gross rent

$785

−$424 vs PA · 58th of 67

Owner-occupied

22,097

Renter-occupied

5,938

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 59% 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 (Natural resources & mining, $96,745/yr) pays 6.1× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $15,890/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 11 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 28,296 76.2%
• Democratic 8,553 23.0%
• Other / third-party 270 0.7%

• German or other West Germanic 933 1.5%
• Spanish 300 0.5%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 122 0.2%
• Chinese 109 0.2%
• Tagalog 31 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 17 0.0%
• Vietnamese 14 0.0%
• Arabic 14 0.0%
• Korean 11 0.0%

Households

28,035

Family households

18,457

65.8% of households

Married couples w/ children

4,465

24.2% of families

Single-mother families

1,244

6.7% of families

Veterans

4,502

8.6% of civilians 18+

• Mainline Protestant 12,312 18.8%
• Evangelical Protestant 11,566 17.6%
• Catholic 8,914 13.6%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 670 1.0%

Health insured

96.0%

±0.7 pp

Uninsured

4.0%

±0.7 pp

54th of 67

With a disability

17.7%

±0.9 pp

13th of 67

Bachelor's or higher

19.0%

±1.2 pp

−16.2 pp vs PA · 58th of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

6.6%

90% interval 5.9%–7.3% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

33rd Judicial District Court of Common Pleas

Judges

1 (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

Kittanning

Traffic fatalities

8

15.27 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

8