Elk County, Pennsylvania

• White (non-Hispanic) 28,831 94.5%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 314 1.0%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 184 0.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 130 0.4%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,042 3.4%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 4 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 1 0.0%

• Under 18 5,785 19.0%
• 18–24 2,073 6.8%
• 25–44 6,323 20.7%
• 45–64 8,959 29.4%
• 65 and over 7,366 24.1%

Median household income

$66,741

90% interval $62,008–$71,474

−$10,791 vs PA · 35th of 67

Below poverty line

10.0%

90% interval 7.9%–12.1%

−1.6 pp vs PA · 51st of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.2%

−0.1 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.8B

0.18% of state

Avg. annual pay

$54,577

Establishments

940

• Manufacturing 5,402 41.2%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 2,092 16.0%
• Education & health services 2,090 16.0%
• Leisure & hospitality 883 6.7%
• Professional & business services 575 4.4%
• Construction 512 3.9%
• Other services 464 3.5%
• Financial activities 261 2.0%
• Natural resources & mining 91 0.7%
• Information 89 0.7%
• Public administration 80 0.6%

The sectors listed cover 95.7% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

79.5%

+10.2 pp vs PA · 8th of 67

Median gross rent

$719

−$490 vs PA · 66th of 67

Owner-occupied

10,600

Renter-occupied

2,725

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 73% of the county workforce. Most panelists likely share employer relationships within these sectors, surface those connections early in voir dire before any institutional-defendant or sector-specific framing.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Public administration, $74,441/yr) pays 4.4× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $16,949/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 14 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 12,543 73.1%
• Democratic 4,483 26.1%
• Other / third-party 127 0.7%

• Spanish 123 0.4%
• German or other West Germanic 94 0.3%
• Chinese 45 0.2%
• Tagalog 43 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 27 0.1%
• Arabic 3 0.0%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 1 0.0%

Households

13,325

Family households

8,274

62.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,496

18.1% of families

Single-mother families

628

7.6% of families

Veterans

1,852

7.5% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 12,676 40.9%
• Mainline Protestant 3,342 10.8%
• Evangelical Protestant 803 2.6%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 348 1.1%

Health insured

97.7%

±0.7 pp

Uninsured

2.3%

±0.7 pp

66th of 67

With a disability

16.6%

±1.9 pp

23rd of 67

Bachelor's or higher

20.6%

±2.1 pp

−14.6 pp vs PA · 46th of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

6.5%

90% interval 5.7%–7.3% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

59th 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

Emporium, Ridgway

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

0

0 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

0