Franklin County, Vermont

• White (non-Hispanic) 46,534 91.9%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,016 2.0%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 124 0.2%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 348 0.7%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 2,272 4.5%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 139 0.3%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 4 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 201 0.4%

• Under 18 10,957 21.6%
• 18–24 3,514 6.9%
• 25–44 13,534 26.7%
• 45–64 13,652 27.0%
• 65 and over 8,981 17.7%

Median household income

$83,266

90% interval $78,121–$88,411

+$430 vs VT · 6th of 14

Below poverty line

8.8%

90% interval 6.9%–10.7%

−0.5 pp vs VT · 11th of 14

Unemployment (12-mo)

2.8%

+0.17 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.9B

6.17% of state

Avg. annual pay

$62,997

Establishments

1,613

• Education & health services 4,562 27.4%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 3,859 23.2%
• Manufacturing 2,683 16.1%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,171 7.0%
• Professional & business services 1,010 6.1%
• Public administration 786 4.7%
• Natural resources & mining 628 3.8%
• Construction 614 3.7%
• Other services 377 2.3%

The sectors listed cover 94.4% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

77.4%

+4.2 pp vs VT · 7th of 14

Median gross rent

$1,180

−$54 vs VT · 3rd of 14

Owner-occupied

15,449

Renter-occupied

4,514

• 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 (Public administration, $106,999/yr) pays 3.5× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $30,452/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 10 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Democratic 13,280 50.0%
• Republican 12,490 47.0%
• Other / third-party 782 2.9%

• French, Haitian, or Cajun 693 1.5%
• Spanish 438 0.9%
• German or other West Germanic 87 0.2%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 14 0.0%
• Tagalog 3 0.0%
• Korean 2 0.0%

Households

19,963

Family households

13,359

66.9% of households

Married couples w/ children

3,401

25.5% of families

Single-mother families

1,102

8.2% of families

Veterans

2,719

6.9% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 15,013 30.1%
• Mainline Protestant 1,921 3.8%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 825 1.7%
• Evangelical Protestant 564 1.1%

Health insured

96.5%

±0.8 pp

Uninsured

3.5%

±0.8 pp

12th of 14

With a disability

15.1%

±1.3 pp

10th of 14

Bachelor's or higher

30.2%

±2.2 pp

−13.6 pp vs VT · 13th of 14

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

4.5%

90% interval 4.0%–5.0% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Franklin County Superior Court

Judges

2 (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

St. Albans

Traffic fatalities

8

20.16 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

8