Anderson County, South Carolina

• White (non-Hispanic) 158,004 75.1%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 10,853 5.2%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 28,388 13.5%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 2,209 1.0%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 9,358 4.4%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 972 0.5%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 38 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 656 0.3%

• Under 18 47,554 22.6%
• 18–24 17,768 8.4%
• 25–44 51,783 24.6%
• 45–64 54,568 25.9%
• 65 and over 38,805 18.4%

Median household income

$69,775

90% interval $65,099–$74,451

−$2,732 vs SC · 13th of 46

Below poverty line

13.1%

90% interval 11.3%–14.9%

−0.2 pp vs SC · 36th of 46

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.2%

−0.48 pp vs. state

County GDP

$10.6B

2.96% of state

Avg. annual pay

$54,229

Establishments

4,631

• Education & health services 16,888 23.2%
• Manufacturing 16,012 22.0%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 15,750 21.7%
• Leisure & hospitality 8,279 11.4%
• Professional & business services 4,728 6.5%
• Public administration 2,100 2.9%
• Financial activities 1,676 2.3%
• Other services 1,564 2.2%

The sectors listed cover 92.2% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

74.8%

+2.9 pp vs SC · 18th of 46

Median gross rent

$989

−$191 vs SC · 16th of 46

Owner-occupied

62,799

Renter-occupied

21,105

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 67% 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 (Financial activities, $67,830/yr) pays 3.2× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $20,931/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• 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 71,828 73.1%
• Democratic 25,281 25.7%
• Other / third-party 1,187 1.2%

• Spanish 5,613 2.8%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 933 0.5%
• Arabic 382 0.2%
• German or other West Germanic 373 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 282 0.1%
• Tagalog 183 0.1%
• Vietnamese 181 0.1%
• Chinese 165 0.1%
• Korean 88 0.0%

Households

83,904

Family households

56,748

67.6% of households

Married couples w/ children

14,601

25.7% of families

Single-mother families

5,637

9.9% of families

Veterans

12,388

7.6% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 118,279 58.1%
• Mainline Protestant 10,474 5.1%
• Black Protestant 9,718 4.8%
• Catholic 6,721 3.3%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,600 1.3%
• Orthodox 50 0.0%

Health insured

89.8%

±0.9 pp

Uninsured

10.2%

±0.9 pp

21st of 46

With a disability

15.6%

±0.7 pp

27th of 46

Bachelor's or higher

26.5%

±1.2 pp

−5.6 pp vs SC · 15th of 46

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

11.4%

90% interval 10.4%–12.4% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

10th Judicial Circuit Court

Judges

3 (Resident Circuit Court judgeships authorized for this circuit by S.C. Code Ann. 14-5-610, as amended by 2026 Act No. 154. Authorized seats, not seated judges; South Carolina also elects at-large circuit judges statewide who are not counted in any circuit.)

Court seats

Anderson, Walhalla

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

45

27.62 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

45