Cumberland County, Pennsylvania

• White (non-Hispanic) 216,534 80.7%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 13,809 5.1%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 11,002 4.1%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 15,263 5.7%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 10,641 4.0%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 49 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 1,025 0.4%

• Under 18 54,926 20.5%
• 18–24 26,654 9.9%
• 25–44 69,642 26.0%
• 45–64 66,115 24.6%
• 65 and over 50,986 19.0%

Median household income

$90,939

90% interval $87,272–$94,606

+$13,407 vs PA · 5th of 67

Below poverty line

8.1%

90% interval 6.5%–9.7%

−3.5 pp vs PA · 61st of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.3%

−0.91 pp vs. state

County GDP

$23.1B

2.29% of state

Avg. annual pay

$65,962

Establishments

7,073

• Trade, transportation & utilities 38,887 28.2%
• Education & health services 30,852 22.4%
• Professional & business services 19,709 14.3%
• Leisure & hospitality 11,848 8.6%
• Manufacturing 8,896 6.5%
• Financial activities 7,688 5.6%
• Public administration 5,310 3.9%
• Construction 5,192 3.8%
• Other services 5,003 3.6%
• Information 1,052 0.8%
• Natural resources & mining 649 0.5%

The sectors listed cover 98.0% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

71.3%

+2.0 pp vs PA · 51st of 67

Median gross rent

$1,249

+$40 vs PA · 11th of 67

Owner-occupied

75,922

Renter-occupied

30,505

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 65% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $97,501/yr) pays 3.8× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $25,379/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• 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.

• Republican 80,267 54.1%
• Democratic 66,255 44.6%
• Other / third-party 1,874 1.3%

• Spanish 6,621 2.6%
• German or other West Germanic 2,543 1.0%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 1,506 0.6%
• Arabic 1,376 0.5%
• Vietnamese 846 0.3%
• Chinese 801 0.3%
• Tagalog 732 0.3%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 648 0.3%
• Korean 553 0.2%

Households

106,427

Family households

67,088

63.0% of households

Married couples w/ children

21,130

31.5% of families

Single-mother families

4,998

7.4% of families

Veterans

17,679

8.3% of civilians 18+

• Mainline Protestant 34,026 13.1%
• Catholic 33,953 13.1%
• Evangelical Protestant 31,731 12.2%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 6,847 2.6%
• Orthodox 1,180 0.5%
• Black Protestant 436 0.2%

Health insured

94.6%

±0.5 pp

Uninsured

5.4%

±0.5 pp

35th of 67

With a disability

13.1%

±0.6 pp

58th of 67

Bachelor's or higher

40.0%

±1.2 pp

+4.8 pp vs PA · 7th of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

7.4%

90% interval 6.7%–8.1% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

9th Judicial District Court of Common Pleas

Judges

9 (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

Carlisle

Traffic fatalities

18

8.43 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

16