Clark County, Washington

• White (non-Hispanic) 374,701 72.5%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 63,672 12.3%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 10,872 2.1%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 25,878 5.0%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 32,976 6.4%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 1,521 0.3%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 4,157 0.8%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 3,182 0.6%

• Under 18 117,472 22.7%
• 18–24 41,212 8.0%
• 25–44 142,388 27.5%
• 45–64 129,811 25.1%
• 65 and over 86,076 16.7%

Median household income

$99,396

90% interval $95,583–$103,209

+$87 vs WA · 5th of 39

Below poverty line

7.8%

90% interval 6.6%–9.0%

−2.2 pp vs WA · 38th of 39

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.8%

−0.24 pp vs. state

County GDP

$33.4B

3.9% of state

Avg. annual pay

$75,483

Establishments

15,846

• Education & health services 49,489 27.1%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 32,133 17.6%
• Professional & business services 24,418 13.4%
• Leisure & hospitality 17,701 9.7%
• Construction 17,166 9.4%
• Manufacturing 13,854 7.6%
• Financial activities 10,145 5.5%
• Public administration 6,676 3.7%
• Other services 5,518 3.0%
• Information 3,748 2.1%
• Natural resources & mining 543 0.3%

The sectors listed cover 99.2% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

66.4%

+2.6 pp vs WA · 29th of 39

Median gross rent

$1,748

−$12 vs WA · 5th of 39

Owner-occupied

130,065

Renter-occupied

65,952

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 58% 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 (Information, $112,421/yr) pays 3.5× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $31,722/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 12 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 143,206 52.1%
• Republican 123,998 45.1%
• Other / third-party 7,591 2.8%

• Spanish 33,256 6.8%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 16,006 3.3%
• Chinese 4,863 1.0%
• Vietnamese 3,687 0.8%
• Tagalog 2,035 0.4%
• German or other West Germanic 1,777 0.4%
• Korean 1,721 0.4%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 1,354 0.3%
• Arabic 1,239 0.3%

Households

196,017

Family households

130,773

66.7% of households

Married couples w/ children

39,617

30.3% of families

Single-mother families

11,172

8.5% of families

Veterans

32,030

8% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 124,375 24.7%
• Catholic 32,284 6.4%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 29,545 5.9%
• Mainline Protestant 10,097 2.0%
• Black Protestant 350 0.1%
• Orthodox 140 0.0%

Health insured

93.3%

±0.6 pp

Uninsured

6.7%

±0.6 pp

13th of 39

With a disability

13.4%

±0.4 pp

34th of 39

Bachelor's or higher

33.3%

−6.3 pp vs WA · 11th of 39

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

7.6%

90% interval 7.0%–8.2% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

5th Superior Court District

Judges

11 (Superior Court judges per district (general civil + felony criminal + family + juvenile + probate jurisdiction); vintage 2026 courts.wa.gov; cross-checked against RCW § 2.08.064. District Court judges (limited jurisdiction: misdemeanors, traffic, small civil up to $100K) are separately allocated and not counted here. Municipal Court judges (city-level traffic + misdemeanor) also separate.)

Court seats

Vancouver

Traffic fatalities

41

10.26 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

41