Somerset County, Pennsylvania

• White (non-Hispanic) 67,938 93.3%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,127 1.5%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 1,889 2.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 382 0.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,196 1.6%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 8 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 1 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 258 0.4%

• Under 18 13,227 18.2%
• 18–24 5,014 6.9%
• 25–44 16,640 22.9%
• 45–64 20,514 28.2%
• 65 and over 17,404 23.9%

Median household income

$62,644

90% interval $58,883–$66,405

−$14,888 vs PA · 47th of 67

Below poverty line

12.4%

90% interval 10.1%–14.7%

+0.8 pp vs PA · 30th of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.4%

+0.17 pp vs. state

County GDP

$3.0B

0.3% of state

Avg. annual pay

$52,110

Establishments

1,847

• Education & health services 5,523 23.8%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 4,910 21.2%
• Leisure & hospitality 2,817 12.1%
• Manufacturing 2,592 11.2%
• Professional & business services 1,425 6.1%
• Public administration 1,369 5.9%
• Construction 1,084 4.7%
• Financial activities 891 3.8%
• Other services 837 3.6%
• Natural resources & mining 649 2.8%
• Information 85 0.4%

The sectors listed cover 95.6% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

80.4%

+11.1 pp vs PA · 5th of 67

Median gross rent

$753

−$456 vs PA · 63rd of 67

Owner-occupied

23,594

Renter-occupied

5,750

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 57% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Public administration, $82,176/yr) pays 3.6× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $22,649/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• 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 31,993 78.3%
• Democratic 8,596 21.0%
• Other / third-party 292 0.7%

• German or other West Germanic 1,755 2.5%
• Spanish 646 0.9%
• Chinese 185 0.3%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 62 0.1%
• Korean 45 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 35 0.1%
• Arabic 11 0.0%
• Vietnamese 3 0.0%
• Tagalog 2 0.0%

Households

29,344

Family households

19,151

65.3% of households

Married couples w/ children

4,716

24.6% of families

Single-mother families

1,237

6.5% of families

Veterans

4,440

7.5% of civilians 18+

• Mainline Protestant 14,537 19.6%
• Evangelical Protestant 11,552 15.6%
• Catholic 8,745 11.8%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,357 1.8%
• Orthodox 100 0.1%

Health insured

93.4%

±0.8 pp

Uninsured

6.6%

±0.8 pp

21st of 67

With a disability

16.3%

±0.9 pp

28th of 67

Bachelor's or higher

17.9%

±1.2 pp

−17.3 pp vs PA · 61st of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

9.2%

90% interval 8.3%–10.1% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

16th 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

Somerset

Traffic fatalities

9

15.11 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

9