Franklin County, Pennsylvania

• White (non-Hispanic) 132,719 84.3%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 11,830 7.5%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 4,753 3.0%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 1,630 1.0%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 5,825 3.7%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 50 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 572 0.4%

• Under 18 34,556 22.0%
• 18–24 11,546 7.3%
• 25–44 38,163 24.2%
• 45–64 41,339 26.3%
• 65 and over 31,775 20.2%

Median household income

$75,061

90% interval $70,138–$79,984

−$2,471 vs PA · 21st of 67

Below poverty line

9.3%

90% interval 7.5%–11.1%

−2.3 pp vs PA · 57th of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.6%

−0.6 pp vs. state

County GDP

$8.4B

0.83% of state

Avg. annual pay

$57,066

Establishments

3,534

• Trade, transportation & utilities 18,467 30.0%
• Education & health services 12,804 20.8%
• Manufacturing 8,873 14.4%
• Leisure & hospitality 5,169 8.4%
• Professional & business services 4,927 8.0%
• Public administration 3,054 5.0%
• Construction 2,543 4.1%
• Other services 2,094 3.4%
• Natural resources & mining 1,740 2.8%
• Financial activities 1,447 2.3%
• Information 224 0.4%

Home ownership

73.5%

+4.2 pp vs PA · 39th of 67

Median gross rent

$1,093

−$116 vs PA · 20th of 67

Owner-occupied

46,691

Renter-occupied

16,819

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 65% 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.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $84,075/yr) pays 3.9× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $21,371/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 17 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 59,604 71.1%
• Democratic 23,543 28.1%
• Other / third-party 737 0.9%

• Spanish 7,526 5.1%
• German or other West Germanic 1,694 1.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 266 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 211 0.1%
• Vietnamese 129 0.1%
• Chinese 122 0.1%
• Korean 50 0.0%
• Arabic 49 0.0%
• Tagalog 44 0.0%

Households

63,510

Family households

42,542

67.0% of households

Married couples w/ children

11,088

26.1% of families

Single-mother families

3,322

7.8% of families

Veterans

10,250

8.4% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 25,628 16.4%
• Mainline Protestant 13,502 8.7%
• Catholic 8,707 5.6%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,053 1.3%
• Black Protestant 1,158 0.7%
• Orthodox 100 0.1%

Health insured

91.1%

±1 pp

Uninsured

8.9%

±1 pp

10th of 67

With a disability

16.0%

±0.9 pp

32nd of 67

Bachelor's or higher

24.7%

±1.2 pp

−10.5 pp vs PA · 31st of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

9.0%

90% interval 8.1%–9.9% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

39th 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

Chambersburg, McConnellsburg

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

21

17.1 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

20