Centre County, Pennsylvania

• White (non-Hispanic) 131,223 82.8%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5,824 3.7%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 5,045 3.2%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 9,039 5.7%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 6,468 4.1%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 401 0.3%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 14 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 562 0.4%

• Under 18 23,235 14.7%
• 18–24 37,564 23.7%
• 25–44 37,963 23.9%
• 45–64 34,542 21.8%
• 65 and over 25,272 15.9%

Median household income

$76,524

90% interval $71,951–$81,097

−$1,008 vs PA · 19th of 67

Below poverty line

14.3%

90% interval 12.1%–16.5%

+2.7 pp vs PA · 13th of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.2%

−1.07 pp vs. state

County GDP

$11.2B

1.12% of state

Avg. annual pay

$65,553

Establishments

3,637

• Education & health services 13,001 18.7%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 9,718 14.0%
• Leisure & hospitality 7,749 11.2%
• Professional & business services 5,162 7.4%
• Manufacturing 4,282 6.2%
• Public administration 3,169 4.6%
• Construction 3,040 4.4%
• Financial activities 2,329 3.4%
• Other services 2,031 2.9%
• Information 1,006 1.5%
• Natural resources & mining 428 0.6%

The sectors listed cover 74.9% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

61.8%

−7.5 pp vs PA · 66th of 67

Median gross rent

$1,207

−$2 vs PA · 13th of 67

Owner-occupied

36,467

Renter-occupied

22,546

• Diversified

  Top three sectors employ 44% of the workforce, a relatively diversified local economy. Expect mixed employer backgrounds on the panel rather than concentration in any one institution or industry.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Information, $99,947/yr) pays 4.1× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $24,464/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 19 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.

• Democratic 41,119 50.9%
• Republican 38,829 48.1%
• Other / third-party 844 1.0%

• Spanish 3,526 2.3%
• Chinese 3,454 2.3%
• German or other West Germanic 3,147 2.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 1,010 0.7%
• Arabic 924 0.6%
• Korean 865 0.6%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 539 0.4%
• Vietnamese 247 0.2%
• Tagalog 98 0.1%

Households

59,013

Family households

32,262

54.7% of households

Married couples w/ children

9,384

29.1% of families

Single-mother families

1,768

5.5% of families

Veterans

6,785

5% of civilians 18+

• Mainline Protestant 18,902 12.0%
• Catholic 15,795 10.0%
• Evangelical Protestant 15,356 9.7%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 3,191 2.0%
• Black Protestant 210 0.1%
• Orthodox 205 0.1%

Health insured

94.8%

±0.7 pp

Uninsured

5.2%

±0.7 pp

36th of 67

With a disability

11.3%

±0.6 pp

65th of 67

Bachelor's or higher

46.2%

+11.0 pp vs PA · 3rd of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

7.7%

90% interval 6.9%–8.5% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

49th Judicial District Court of Common Pleas

Judges

3 (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

Bellefonte

Traffic fatalities

7

5.17 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

6