Washington County, Pennsylvania

• White (non-Hispanic) 188,331 89.7%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4,335 2.1%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 6,628 3.2%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 2,703 1.3%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 7,387 3.5%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 19 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 5 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 634 0.3%

• Under 18 41,070 19.6%
• 18–24 16,389 7.8%
• 25–44 49,364 23.5%
• 45–64 57,052 27.2%
• 65 and over 46,167 22.0%

Median household income

$76,961

90% interval $73,523–$80,399

−$571 vs PA · 18th of 67

Below poverty line

10.3%

90% interval 8.5%–12.1%

−1.3 pp vs PA · 49th of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.0%

−0.24 pp vs. state

County GDP

$18.7B

1.85% of state

Avg. annual pay

$73,598

Establishments

5,751

• Education & health services 20,359 22.8%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 16,950 19.0%
• Professional & business services 11,076 12.4%
• Manufacturing 9,781 10.9%
• Leisure & hospitality 9,508 10.6%
• Construction 7,040 7.9%
• Financial activities 3,817 4.3%
• Natural resources & mining 3,808 4.3%
• Other services 3,231 3.6%
• Public administration 1,996 2.2%
• Information 1,305 1.5%

The sectors listed cover 99.4% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

76.1%

+6.8 pp vs PA · 29th of 67

Median gross rent

$949

−$260 vs PA · 27th of 67

Owner-occupied

67,353

Renter-occupied

21,152

• Diversified

  Top three sectors employ 54% of the workforce, a relatively diversified local economy. Expect mixed employer backgrounds on the panel rather than concentration in any one institution or industry.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Information, $190,632/yr) pays 7.1× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $26,820/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• 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 75,929 62.4%
• Democratic 44,910 36.9%
• Other / third-party 778 0.6%

• Spanish 2,812 1.4%
• German or other West Germanic 649 0.3%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 470 0.2%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 203 0.1%
• Chinese 152 0.1%
• Tagalog 131 0.1%
• Vietnamese 120 0.1%
• Arabic 88 0.0%
• Korean 87 0.0%

Households

88,505

Family households

56,307

63.6% of households

Married couples w/ children

14,251

25.3% of families

Single-mother families

3,697

6.6% of families

Veterans

11,549

6.8% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 44,308 21.2%
• Evangelical Protestant 20,503 9.8%
• Mainline Protestant 19,408 9.3%
• Black Protestant 1,708 0.8%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,454 0.7%
• Orthodox 927 0.4%

Health insured

96.1%

±0.3 pp

Uninsured

3.9%

±0.3 pp

59th of 67

With a disability

14.9%

±0.6 pp

45th of 67

Bachelor's or higher

32.9%

±1.1 pp

−2.3 pp vs PA · 14th of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

5.6%

90% interval 5.1%–6.1% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

27th Judicial District Court of Common Pleas

Judges

6 (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

Washington

Traffic fatalities

29

17.16 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

27