Bennington County, Vermont

• White (non-Hispanic) 33,822 90.8%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,047 2.8%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 427 1.1%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 317 0.9%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,448 3.9%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 29 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 5 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 174 0.5%

• Under 18 6,953 18.7%
• 18–24 3,269 8.8%
• 25–44 7,659 20.6%
• 45–64 10,300 27.6%
• 65 and over 9,088 24.4%

Median household income

$71,854

90% interval $64,496–$79,212

−$10,982 vs VT · 9th of 14

Below poverty line

9.9%

90% interval 7.3%–12.5%

+0.6 pp vs VT · 6th of 14

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.2%

+0.61 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.4B

5.15% of state

Avg. annual pay

$62,189

Establishments

2,023

• Education & health services 5,609 33.7%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 3,038 18.3%
• Leisure & hospitality 2,326 14.0%
• Manufacturing 1,691 10.2%
• Professional & business services 1,308 7.9%
• Financial activities 450 2.7%
• Other services 400 2.4%
• Public administration 398 2.4%

The sectors listed cover 91.5% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

73.7%

+0.5 pp vs VT · 11th of 14

Median gross rent

$1,109

−$125 vs VT · 9th of 14

Owner-occupied

11,042

Renter-occupied

3,945

• 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 (Professional & business services, $120,917/yr) pays 3.6× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $33,626/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Small-business scale

  Average establishment employs only 8.2 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

• Democratic 12,326 60.0%
• Republican 7,697 37.5%
• Other / third-party 529 2.6%

• Spanish 545 1.5%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 173 0.5%
• German or other West Germanic 136 0.4%
• Tagalog 68 0.2%
• Chinese 55 0.2%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 33 0.1%
• Arabic 3 0.0%
• Korean 1 0.0%
• Vietnamese 1 0.0%

Households

14,987

Family households

8,931

59.6% of households

Married couples w/ children

2,044

22.9% of families

Single-mother families

872

9.8% of families

Veterans

2,244

7.4% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 8,399 22.5%
• Mainline Protestant 3,166 8.5%
• Evangelical Protestant 1,632 4.4%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,188 3.2%

Health insured

94.6%

±1.3 pp

Uninsured

5.4%

±1.3 pp

2nd of 14

With a disability

16.4%

±1.7 pp

5th of 14

Bachelor's or higher

41.8%

±2.7 pp

−2.0 pp vs VT · 8th of 14

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

6.0%

90% interval 5.3%–6.7% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Bennington County Superior Court

Judges

1 (Vermont Superior Court Judge, approximate primary/resident assignment per county unit (Civil + Criminal Division combined). VT has ~33 Judges statewide who rotate assignments among the 14 county units under a unified bench (4 V.S.A. § 30), so any given trial day's working bench may differ from this count. Vintage 2026 vermontjudiciary.org roster.)

Court seats

Bennington

Traffic fatalities

4

13.19 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

4