Mifflin County, Pennsylvania

• White (non-Hispanic) 42,953 93.3%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,050 2.3%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 449 1.0%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 146 0.3%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,324 2.9%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 41 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 24 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 54 0.1%

• Under 18 10,428 22.6%
• 18–24 3,199 6.9%
• 25–44 10,141 22.0%
• 45–64 12,143 26.4%
• 65 and over 10,130 22.0%

Median household income

$64,972

90% interval $59,208–$70,736

−$12,560 vs PA · 42nd of 67

Below poverty line

12.5%

90% interval 9.7%–15.3%

+0.9 pp vs PA · 27th of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.6%

−0.61 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.3B

0.23% of state

Avg. annual pay

$54,311

Establishments

1,093

• Education & health services 4,913 28.5%
• Manufacturing 4,415 25.6%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 3,242 18.8%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,315 7.6%
• Construction 988 5.7%
• Professional & business services 535 3.1%
• Financial activities 477 2.8%
• Public administration 456 2.6%
• Other services 392 2.3%
• Natural resources & mining 200 1.2%
• Information 84 0.5%

The sectors listed cover 98.8% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

71.1%

+1.8 pp vs PA · 53rd of 67

Median gross rent

$822

−$387 vs PA · 43rd of 67

Owner-occupied

13,166

Renter-occupied

5,344

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 73% 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 (Construction, $67,596/yr) pays 3.4× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $19,707/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 16 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 17,184 77.9%
• Democratic 4,735 21.5%
• Other / third-party 152 0.7%

• German or other West Germanic 3,768 8.7%
• Spanish 274 0.6%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 56 0.1%
• Chinese 51 0.1%
• Arabic 46 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 19 0.0%
• Korean 12 0.0%
• Vietnamese 12 0.0%
• Tagalog 5 0.0%

Households

18,510

Family households

12,137

65.6% of households

Married couples w/ children

2,897

23.9% of families

Single-mother families

1,015

8.4% of families

Veterans

2,860

8% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 13,165 28.5%
• Mainline Protestant 7,096 15.4%
• Catholic 1,165 2.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 412 0.9%
• Black Protestant 170 0.4%

Health insured

87.2%

±2.1 pp

Uninsured

12.8%

±2.1 pp

2nd of 67

With a disability

15.1%

±1.2 pp

41st of 67

Bachelor's or higher

14.9%

±1.6 pp

−20.3 pp vs PA · 65th of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

11.1%

90% interval 9.8%–12.4% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

58th 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

Lewistown

Traffic fatalities

1

2.81 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

1