Wayne County, Pennsylvania

• White (non-Hispanic) 44,815 87.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2,638 5.1%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 1,514 3.0%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 379 0.7%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,467 2.9%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 32 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 25 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 392 0.8%

• Under 18 8,408 16.4%
• 18–24 3,172 6.2%
• 25–44 11,723 22.9%
• 45–64 14,852 29.0%
• 65 and over 13,107 25.6%

Median household income

$67,672

90% interval $61,991–$73,353

−$9,860 vs PA · 31st of 67

Below poverty line

13.0%

90% interval 11.0%–15.0%

+1.4 pp vs PA · 23rd of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.3%

+0.03 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.7B

0.26% of state

Avg. annual pay

$55,091

Establishments

1,464

• Education & health services 3,605 22.9%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 3,083 19.6%
• Leisure & hospitality 2,198 13.9%
• Construction 1,175 7.5%
• Public administration 1,110 7.0%
• Professional & business services 1,060 6.7%
• Other services 817 5.2%
• Financial activities 735 4.7%
• Manufacturing 649 4.1%
• Natural resources & mining 155 1.0%
• Information 139 0.9%

The sectors listed cover 93.4% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

80.5%

+11.2 pp vs PA · 4th of 67

Median gross rent

$1,038

−$171 vs PA · 22nd of 67

Owner-occupied

16,811

Renter-occupied

4,066

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 56% 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 (Financial activities, $85,345/yr) pays 2.8× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $30,474/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 11 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 20,071 68.2%
• Democratic 9,150 31.1%
• Other / third-party 223 0.8%

• Spanish 1,292 2.6%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 460 0.9%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 281 0.6%
• German or other West Germanic 207 0.4%
• Arabic 67 0.1%
• Korean 40 0.1%
• Chinese 32 0.1%
• Tagalog 30 0.1%
• Vietnamese 4 0.0%

Households

20,877

Family households

13,193

63.2% of households

Married couples w/ children

2,679

20.3% of families

Single-mother families

1,060

8.0% of families

Veterans

4,099

9.6% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 9,253 18.1%
• Mainline Protestant 4,999 9.8%
• Evangelical Protestant 2,307 4.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,622 3.2%
• Orthodox 81 0.2%

Health insured

93.2%

±1 pp

Uninsured

6.8%

±1 pp

17th of 67

With a disability

16.5%

±1.3 pp

26th of 67

Bachelor's or higher

23.4%

±1.5 pp

−11.8 pp vs PA · 37th of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.6%

90% interval 7.7%–9.5% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

22nd 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

Honesdale

Traffic fatalities

9

21 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

8