Washington County, Tennessee

• White (non-Hispanic) 117,050 85.9%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6,679 4.9%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 4,767 3.5%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 2,009 1.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 5,158 3.8%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 89 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 36 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 473 0.3%

• Under 18 25,446 18.7%
• 18–24 16,527 12.1%
• 25–44 33,470 24.6%
• 45–64 35,067 25.7%
• 65 and over 25,751 18.9%

Median household income

$64,816

90% interval $60,062–$69,570

−$7,191 vs TN · 36th of 95

Below poverty line

13.0%

90% interval 10.7%–15.3%

−0.3 pp vs TN · 67th of 95

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.2%

−0.31 pp vs. state

County GDP

$9.2B

1.63% of state

Avg. annual pay

$57,939

Establishments

3,594

• Education & health services 21,282 33.6%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 12,130 19.2%
• Leisure & hospitality 8,240 13.0%
• Professional & business services 7,675 12.1%
• Manufacturing 4,485 7.1%
• Public administration 2,804 4.4%
• Financial activities 2,536 4.0%
• Other services 1,339 2.1%
• Construction 63 0.1%
• Information 53 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 95.8% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

64.5%

−2.4 pp vs TN · 85th of 95

Median gross rent

$1,005

−$184 vs TN · 22nd of 95

Owner-occupied

36,636

Renter-occupied

20,123

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 66% 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, $77,059/yr) pays 3.1× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $24,741/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 18 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 42,299 69.1%
• Democratic 18,131 29.6%
• Other / third-party 804 1.3%

• Spanish 3,715 2.9%
• Chinese 444 0.3%
• Arabic 200 0.2%
• German or other West Germanic 185 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 166 0.1%
• Tagalog 145 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 116 0.1%
• Korean 49 0.0%
• Vietnamese 22 0.0%

Households

56,759

Family households

33,908

59.7% of households

Married couples w/ children

8,498

25.1% of families

Single-mother families

2,442

7.2% of families

Veterans

9,481

8.6% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 51,146 38.5%
• Mainline Protestant 10,606 8.0%
• Catholic 3,115 2.3%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,468 1.9%
• Black Protestant 1,970 1.5%

Health insured

89.6%

±1.1 pp

Uninsured

10.4%

±1.1 pp

38th of 95

With a disability

17.0%

±1 pp

67th of 95

Bachelor's or higher

34.3%

±1.7 pp

+3.2 pp vs TN · 8th of 95

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

11.1%

90% interval 10.0%–12.2% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

1st Judicial District Circuit Court

Judges

3 (Circuit Court judges per district; Chancery + Criminal Court judges separate; vintage 2026 tncourts.gov)

Court seats

Elizabethton, Erwin, Jonesborough, Mountain City

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

11

9.93 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

10