Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania

• White (non-Hispanic) 123,800 86.2%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 11,184 7.8%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 3,766 2.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 678 0.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 3,897 2.7%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 23 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 1 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 209 0.1%

• Under 18 28,557 19.9%
• 18–24 10,721 7.5%
• 25–44 34,761 24.2%
• 45–64 39,293 27.4%
• 65 and over 30,226 21.1%

Median household income

$68,552

90% interval $65,831–$71,273

−$8,980 vs PA · 30th of 67

Below poverty line

12.5%

90% interval 10.4%–14.6%

+0.9 pp vs PA · 28th of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.9%

+0.64 pp vs. state

County GDP

$6.5B

0.64% of state

Avg. annual pay

$55,858

Establishments

2,955

• Trade, transportation & utilities 13,364 26.5%
• Education & health services 11,870 23.5%
• Manufacturing 10,095 20.0%
• Leisure & hospitality 3,615 7.2%
• Public administration 2,980 5.9%
• Professional & business services 2,798 5.5%
• Construction 1,763 3.5%
• Natural resources & mining 1,449 2.9%
• Other services 1,280 2.5%
• Financial activities 917 1.8%
• Information 125 0.2%

Home ownership

76.1%

+6.8 pp vs PA · 28th of 67

Median gross rent

$876

−$333 vs PA · 38th of 67

Owner-occupied

44,125

Renter-occupied

13,863

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 70% 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, $73,932/yr) pays 3.7× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $20,094/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 17 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 51,665 70.6%
• Democratic 20,882 28.5%
• Other / third-party 637 0.9%

• Spanish 6,281 4.6%
• German or other West Germanic 749 0.5%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 439 0.3%
• Tagalog 253 0.2%
• Arabic 185 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 127 0.1%
• Korean 37 0.0%
• Vietnamese 36 0.0%
• Chinese 7 0.0%

Households

57,988

Family households

37,008

63.8% of households

Married couples w/ children

7,423

20.1% of families

Single-mother families

3,641

9.8% of families

Veterans

8,078

7% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 33,533 23.4%
• Mainline Protestant 29,529 20.6%
• Evangelical Protestant 6,377 4.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 4,164 2.9%
• Orthodox 373 0.3%
• Black Protestant 150 0.1%

Health insured

93.1%

±0.8 pp

Uninsured

6.9%

±0.8 pp

16th of 67

With a disability

18.1%

±0.7 pp

9th of 67

Bachelor's or higher

19.9%

±1 pp

−15.3 pp vs PA · 50th of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

7.6%

90% interval 6.9%–8.3% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

21st Judicial District Court of Common Pleas

Judges

4 (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

Pottsville

Traffic fatalities

22

19.13 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

21