Lehigh County, Pennsylvania

• White (non-Hispanic) 223,873 59.1%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 105,976 28.0%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 22,374 5.9%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 13,297 3.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 10,989 2.9%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 172 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 53 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 2,058 0.5%

• Under 18 84,498 22.3%
• 18–24 33,593 8.9%
• 25–44 99,108 26.2%
• 45–64 94,585 25.0%
• 65 and over 67,008 17.7%

Median household income

$80,820

90% interval $76,966–$84,674

+$3,288 vs PA · 13th of 67

Below poverty line

11.1%

90% interval 9.5%–12.7%

−0.5 pp vs PA · 42nd of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.5%

+0.28 pp vs. state

County GDP

$31.7B

3.15% of state

Avg. annual pay

$72,643

Establishments

9,054

• Education & health services 66,248 32.5%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 44,323 21.7%
• Professional & business services 30,188 14.8%
• Manufacturing 19,981 9.8%
• Leisure & hospitality 16,904 8.3%
• Construction 6,735 3.3%
• Financial activities 6,440 3.2%
• Other services 5,425 2.7%
• Public administration 4,254 2.1%
• Information 2,371 1.2%
• Natural resources & mining 280 0.1%

Home ownership

65.6%

−3.7 pp vs PA · 62nd of 67

Median gross rent

$1,383

+$174 vs PA · 7th of 67

Owner-occupied

94,675

Renter-occupied

49,711

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 69% 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, $98,425/yr) pays 3.0× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $32,992/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 23 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 96,317 50.7%
• Republican 91,207 48.1%
• Other / third-party 2,286 1.2%

• Spanish 69,601 19.5%
• Arabic 5,398 1.5%
• Chinese 1,958 0.5%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 1,897 0.5%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 1,373 0.4%
• German or other West Germanic 1,096 0.3%
• Vietnamese 678 0.2%
• Korean 391 0.1%
• Tagalog 355 0.1%

Households

144,386

Family households

96,976

67.2% of households

Married couples w/ children

25,847

26.7% of families

Single-mother families

10,503

10.8% of families

Veterans

16,518

5.6% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 60,792 16.2%
• Mainline Protestant 43,769 11.7%
• Evangelical Protestant 26,151 7.0%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 15,927 4.3%
• Orthodox 2,922 0.8%
• Black Protestant 1,060 0.3%

Health insured

93.6%

±0.4 pp

Uninsured

6.4%

±0.4 pp

24th of 67

With a disability

13.2%

±0.5 pp

56th of 67

Bachelor's or higher

34.2%

±0.9 pp

−1.0 pp vs PA · 13th of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.8%

90% interval 8.0%–9.6% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

31st Judicial District Court of Common Pleas

Judges

12 (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

Allentown

Traffic fatalities

32

10.87 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

30