Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

• White (non-Hispanic) 243,006 74.2%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 56,836 17.3%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 13,382 4.1%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 3,930 1.2%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 9,493 2.9%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 46 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 98 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 884 0.3%

• Under 18 66,457 20.3%
• 18–24 27,931 8.5%
• 25–44 81,140 24.8%
• 45–64 86,225 26.3%
• 65 and over 65,922 20.1%

Median household income

$66,221

90% interval $62,976–$69,466

−$11,311 vs PA · 37th of 67

Below poverty line

13.4%

90% interval 11.8%–15.0%

+1.8 pp vs PA · 19th of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.2%

+0.91 pp vs. state

County GDP

$20.6B

2.04% of state

Avg. annual pay

$58,252

Establishments

7,538

• Trade, transportation & utilities 41,741 28.8%
• Education & health services 36,190 24.9%
• Manufacturing 17,694 12.2%
• Professional & business services 14,277 9.8%
• Leisure & hospitality 12,279 8.5%
• Financial activities 5,365 3.7%
• Public administration 5,144 3.5%
• Construction 5,140 3.5%
• Other services 3,891 2.7%
• Information 2,436 1.7%
• Natural resources & mining 487 0.3%

Home ownership

67.8%

−1.5 pp vs PA · 61st of 67

Median gross rent

$1,004

−$205 vs PA · 24th of 67

Owner-occupied

91,565

Renter-occupied

43,490

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 66% 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 (Information, $78,670/yr) pays 3.2× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $24,486/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 19 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.

• Republican 92,444 59.2%
• Democratic 62,504 40.0%
• Other / third-party 1,202 0.8%

• Spanish 40,166 12.9%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 1,718 0.6%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 876 0.3%
• German or other West Germanic 808 0.3%
• Chinese 517 0.2%
• Arabic 437 0.1%
• Tagalog 211 0.1%
• Korean 173 0.1%
• Vietnamese 96 0.0%

Households

135,055

Family households

82,663

61.2% of households

Married couples w/ children

17,874

21.6% of families

Single-mother families

10,548

12.8% of families

Veterans

17,059

6.5% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 119,589 36.7%
• Mainline Protestant 24,385 7.5%
• Evangelical Protestant 13,956 4.3%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 7,121 2.2%
• Orthodox 811 0.2%
• Black Protestant 202 0.1%

Health insured

93.4%

±0.4 pp

Uninsured

6.6%

±0.4 pp

19th of 67

With a disability

16.1%

±0.5 pp

31st of 67

Bachelor's or higher

25.3%

±0.8 pp

−9.9 pp vs PA · 29th of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.6%

90% interval 7.9%–9.3% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

11th Judicial District Court of Common Pleas

Judges

9 (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

Wilkes-Barre

Traffic fatalities

18

6.89 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

18