Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania

• White (non-Hispanic) 172,120 79.6%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 21,190 9.8%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 6,433 3.0%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 6,443 3.0%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 8,389 3.9%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 120 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 60 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 1,391 0.6%

• Under 18 44,213 20.5%
• 18–24 19,337 8.9%
• 25–44 52,513 24.3%
• 45–64 55,673 25.8%
• 65 and over 44,410 20.5%

Median household income

$67,341

90% interval $63,475–$71,207

−$10,191 vs PA · 32nd of 67

Below poverty line

14.9%

90% interval 13.1%–16.7%

+3.3 pp vs PA · 8th of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.5%

+0.28 pp vs. state

County GDP

$13.4B

1.33% of state

Avg. annual pay

$55,423

Establishments

5,560

• Education & health services 30,296 30.7%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 23,492 23.8%
• Manufacturing 10,157 10.3%
• Leisure & hospitality 9,807 9.9%
• Professional & business services 8,283 8.4%
• Financial activities 4,256 4.3%
• Construction 3,797 3.8%
• Public administration 3,413 3.5%
• Other services 3,002 3.0%
• Information 865 0.9%
• Natural resources & mining 523 0.5%

The sectors listed cover 99.1% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

65.4%

−3.9 pp vs PA · 63rd of 67

Median gross rent

$1,007

−$202 vs PA · 23rd of 67

Owner-occupied

57,744

Renter-occupied

30,519

• 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, $84,905/yr) pays 3.7× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $23,195/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 18 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Democratic 59,510 51.0%
• Republican 56,261 48.3%
• Other / third-party 819 0.7%

• Spanish 11,880 5.8%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 921 0.4%
• Tagalog 683 0.3%
• German or other West Germanic 443 0.2%
• Arabic 281 0.1%
• Chinese 261 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 242 0.1%
• Korean 168 0.1%
• Vietnamese 152 0.1%

Households

88,263

Family households

52,943

60.0% of households

Married couples w/ children

12,367

23.4% of families

Single-mother families

6,245

11.8% of families

Veterans

10,153

5.9% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 96,397 44.6%
• Evangelical Protestant 17,809 8.2%
• Mainline Protestant 11,865 5.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 8,801 4.1%
• Orthodox 1,371 0.6%
• Black Protestant 100 0.0%

Health insured

95.1%

±0.5 pp

Uninsured

4.9%

±0.5 pp

41st of 67

With a disability

16.4%

±0.6 pp

27th of 67

Bachelor's or higher

30.6%

±0.9 pp

−4.6 pp vs PA · 17th of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.1%

90% interval 7.3%–8.9% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

45th 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

Scranton

Traffic fatalities

20

11.63 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

16