Dauphin County, Pennsylvania

• White (non-Hispanic) 175,496 60.6%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 34,032 11.8%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 47,138 16.3%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 18,879 6.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 11,985 4.1%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 207 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 56 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 1,800 0.6%

• Under 18 64,718 22.3%
• 18–24 23,621 8.2%
• 25–44 77,033 26.6%
• 45–64 72,000 24.9%
• 65 and over 52,221 18.0%

Median household income

$72,875

90% interval $69,854–$75,896

−$4,657 vs PA · 26th of 67

Below poverty line

13.0%

90% interval 11.3%–14.7%

+1.4 pp vs PA · 22nd of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.2%

−0.04 pp vs. state

County GDP

$28.9B

2.87% of state

Avg. annual pay

$69,570

Establishments

7,521

• Education & health services 55,409 29.1%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 37,292 19.6%
• Public administration 24,301 12.8%
• Professional & business services 20,845 10.9%
• Leisure & hospitality 18,873 9.9%
• Manufacturing 10,682 5.6%
• Financial activities 7,249 3.8%
• Construction 6,530 3.4%
• Other services 5,783 3.0%
• Information 1,361 0.7%
• Natural resources & mining 237 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 99.0% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

63.1%

−6.2 pp vs PA · 65th of 67

Median gross rent

$1,217

+$8 vs PA · 12th of 67

Owner-occupied

76,556

Renter-occupied

44,802

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 61% 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, $104,768/yr) pays 3.8× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $27,388/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 25 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 78,327 52.4%
• Republican 69,474 46.5%
• Other / third-party 1,725 1.2%

• Spanish 18,409 6.8%
• German or other West Germanic 1,911 0.7%
• Vietnamese 1,745 0.6%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 1,581 0.6%
• Chinese 1,171 0.4%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 1,092 0.4%
• Arabic 835 0.3%
• Tagalog 521 0.2%
• Korean 328 0.1%

Households

121,358

Family households

73,465

60.5% of households

Married couples w/ children

18,262

24.9% of families

Single-mother families

8,249

11.2% of families

Veterans

14,873

6.6% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 41,911 14.6%
• Mainline Protestant 32,408 11.3%
• Evangelical Protestant 29,871 10.4%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 12,853 4.5%
• Black Protestant 9,244 3.2%
• Orthodox 1,479 0.5%

Health insured

93.6%

±0.6 pp

Uninsured

6.4%

±0.6 pp

22nd of 67

With a disability

14.0%

±0.5 pp

49th of 67

Bachelor's or higher

34.4%

±1.1 pp

−0.8 pp vs PA · 12th of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.3%

90% interval 7.5%–9.1% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

12th Judicial District Court of Common Pleas

Judges

8 (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

Harrisburg

Traffic fatalities

26

11.56 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

26