Mercer County, Pennsylvania

• White (non-Hispanic) 96,024 87.9%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,837 1.7%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 6,151 5.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 694 0.6%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 4,004 3.7%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 83 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 19 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 445 0.4%

• Under 18 20,692 18.9%
• 18–24 10,087 9.2%
• 25–44 23,676 21.7%
• 45–64 29,531 27.0%
• 65 and over 25,271 23.1%

Median household income

$61,006

90% interval $56,710–$65,302

−$16,526 vs PA · 56th of 67

Below poverty line

13.1%

90% interval 11.1%–15.1%

+1.5 pp vs PA · 21st of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.5%

+0.3 pp vs. state

County GDP

$5.5B

0.55% of state

Avg. annual pay

$55,006

Establishments

2,839

• Education & health services 11,600 27.1%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 8,752 20.5%
• Manufacturing 8,024 18.8%
• Leisure & hospitality 4,542 10.6%
• Professional & business services 2,328 5.4%
• Financial activities 1,752 4.1%
• Public administration 1,715 4.0%
• Other services 1,637 3.8%
• Construction 1,510 3.5%
• Natural resources & mining 264 0.6%
• Information 195 0.5%

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

Home ownership

72.4%

+3.1 pp vs PA · 44th of 67

Median gross rent

$843

−$366 vs PA · 41st of 67

Owner-occupied

33,679

Renter-occupied

12,845

• 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.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $93,828/yr) pays 4.9× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $19,288/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 15 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 37,761 64.6%
• Democratic 20,145 34.5%
• Other / third-party 504 0.9%

• German or other West Germanic 2,316 2.2%
• Spanish 791 0.8%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 215 0.2%
• Arabic 195 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 171 0.2%
• Tagalog 101 0.1%
• Chinese 56 0.1%
• Vietnamese 18 0.0%
• Korean 14 0.0%

Households

46,524

Family households

29,072

62.5% of households

Married couples w/ children

6,845

23.5% of families

Single-mother families

2,377

8.2% of families

Veterans

7,562

8.6% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 14,433 13.0%
• Evangelical Protestant 14,288 12.9%
• Mainline Protestant 13,352 12.1%
• Black Protestant 1,064 1.0%
• Orthodox 541 0.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 313 0.3%

Health insured

93.6%

±0.6 pp

Uninsured

6.4%

±0.6 pp

25th of 67

With a disability

17.3%

±0.8 pp

16th of 67

Bachelor's or higher

25.6%

±1.2 pp

−9.6 pp vs PA · 28th of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.3%

90% interval 7.5%–9.1% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

35th 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

Mercer

Traffic fatalities

15

16.94 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

14