McKean County, Pennsylvania

• White (non-Hispanic) 36,598 91.7%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 784 2.0%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 854 2.1%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 285 0.7%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,219 3.1%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 19 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 145 0.4%

• Under 18 7,724 19.4%
• 18–24 3,667 9.2%
• 25–44 9,041 22.7%
• 45–64 11,082 27.8%
• 65 and over 8,390 21.0%

Median household income

$59,147

90% interval $54,289–$64,005

−$18,385 vs PA · 63rd of 67

Below poverty line

14.3%

90% interval 11.6%–17.0%

+2.7 pp vs PA · 15th of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.7%

+0.43 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.2B

0.22% of state

Avg. annual pay

$51,959

Establishments

1,052

• Education & health services 3,485 25.3%
• Manufacturing 2,874 20.9%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 2,602 18.9%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,170 8.5%
• Public administration 889 6.5%
• Professional & business services 859 6.2%
• Construction 521 3.8%
• Natural resources & mining 457 3.3%
• Other services 443 3.2%
• Financial activities 254 1.8%
• Information 77 0.6%

The sectors listed cover 99.0% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

78.0%

+8.7 pp vs PA · 17th of 67

Median gross rent

$809

−$400 vs PA · 48th of 67

Owner-occupied

12,760

Renter-occupied

3,609

• 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.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Natural resources & mining, $80,441/yr) pays 4.3× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $18,613/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 13 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 14,401 73.2%
• Democratic 5,115 26.0%
• Other / third-party 166 0.8%

• Spanish 376 1.0%
• German or other West Germanic 138 0.4%
• Chinese 71 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 50 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 32 0.1%
• Korean 6 0.0%
• Tagalog 5 0.0%
• Vietnamese 4 0.0%

Households

16,369

Family households

10,282

62.8% of households

Married couples w/ children

2,348

22.8% of families

Single-mother families

777

7.6% of families

Veterans

2,731

8.5% of civilians 18+

• Mainline Protestant 5,888 14.6%
• Catholic 4,517 11.2%
• Evangelical Protestant 4,070 10.1%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 325 0.8%
• Black Protestant 50 0.1%

Health insured

95.3%

±1 pp

Uninsured

4.7%

±1 pp

44th of 67

With a disability

20.4%

±1.3 pp

4th of 67

Bachelor's or higher

20.8%

±1.5 pp

−14.4 pp vs PA · 44th of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

7.4%

90% interval 6.6%–8.2% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

48th 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

Smethport

Traffic fatalities

2

6.22 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

2