Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania

• White (non-Hispanic) 35,833 93.8%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 924 2.4%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 87 0.2%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 172 0.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,114 2.9%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 2 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 2 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 85 0.2%

• Under 18 7,194 18.8%
• 18–24 2,509 6.6%
• 25–44 8,052 21.1%
• 45–64 10,841 28.4%
• 65 and over 9,623 25.2%

Median household income

$69,771

90% interval $65,736–$73,806

−$7,761 vs PA · 28th of 67

Below poverty line

12.1%

90% interval 10.1%–14.1%

+0.5 pp vs PA · 31st of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.3%

+0.08 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.6B

0.26% of state

Avg. annual pay

$52,565

Establishments

962

• Education & health services 2,174 25.3%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 2,048 23.9%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,028 12.0%
• Professional & business services 620 7.2%
• Natural resources & mining 518 6.0%
• Construction 483 5.6%
• Manufacturing 448 5.2%
• Public administration 433 5.0%
• Other services 300 3.5%
• Financial activities 249 2.9%
• Information 89 1.0%

The sectors listed cover 97.7% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

78.5%

+9.2 pp vs PA · 14th of 67

Median gross rent

$933

−$276 vs PA · 30th of 67

Owner-occupied

12,177

Renter-occupied

3,340

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 61% 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 (Professional & business services, $74,872/yr) pays 3.6× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $20,954/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Small-business scale

  Average establishment employs only 8.9 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

• Republican 16,114 71.9%
• Democratic 6,093 27.2%
• Other / third-party 197 0.9%

• Spanish 460 1.3%
• German or other West Germanic 172 0.5%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 86 0.2%
• Chinese 59 0.2%
• Tagalog 41 0.1%
• Vietnamese 33 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 32 0.1%
• Korean 20 0.1%
• Arabic 6 0.0%

Households

15,517

Family households

10,102

65.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,927

19.1% of families

Single-mother families

706

7.0% of families

Veterans

2,638

8.5% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 5,910 15.4%
• Mainline Protestant 3,355 8.7%
• Evangelical Protestant 2,097 5.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 985 2.6%
• Orthodox 76 0.2%

Health insured

93.8%

±0.6 pp

Uninsured

6.2%

±0.6 pp

27th of 67

With a disability

16.3%

±0.8 pp

29th of 67

Bachelor's or higher

19.5%

±1.2 pp

−15.7 pp vs PA · 52nd of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.4%

90% interval 7.6%–9.2% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

34th 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

Montrose

Traffic fatalities

11

35.46 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

11