Island County, Washington

• White (non-Hispanic) 65,470 75.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 7,582 8.7%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 1,879 2.2%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 4,242 4.9%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 6,526 7.5%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 547 0.6%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 363 0.4%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 227 0.3%

• Under 18 15,049 17.3%
• 18–24 7,144 8.2%
• 25–44 21,406 24.7%
• 45–64 19,978 23.0%
• 65 and over 23,259 26.8%

Median household income

$88,776

90% interval $81,774–$95,778

−$10,533 vs WA · 10th of 39

Below poverty line

8.6%

90% interval 7.0%–10.2%

−1.4 pp vs WA · 35th of 39

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.7%

−0.34 pp vs. state

County GDP

$4.7B

0.54% of state

Avg. annual pay

$64,784

Establishments

2,176

• Education & health services 4,747 26.2%
• Leisure & hospitality 3,004 16.6%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 2,988 16.5%
• Professional & business services 1,965 10.8%
• Public administration 1,442 7.9%
• Construction 1,218 6.7%
• Other services 868 4.8%
• Manufacturing 674 3.7%
• Financial activities 659 3.6%
• Information 260 1.4%
• Natural resources & mining 146 0.8%

The sectors listed cover 99.1% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

74.7%

+10.9 pp vs WA · 15th of 39

Median gross rent

$1,662

−$98 vs WA · 7th of 39

Owner-occupied

26,888

Renter-occupied

9,084

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 59% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $152,610/yr) pays 4.8× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $31,888/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Small-business scale

  Average establishment employs only 8.3 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

• Democratic 29,595 56.8%
• Republican 20,967 40.3%
• Other / third-party 1,513 2.9%

• Spanish 3,264 3.9%
• Tagalog 1,439 1.7%
• Vietnamese 371 0.4%
• Chinese 365 0.4%
• German or other West Germanic 252 0.3%
• Korean 202 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 180 0.2%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 151 0.2%
• Arabic 63 0.1%

Households

35,972

Family households

24,661

68.6% of households

Married couples w/ children

5,922

24.0% of families

Single-mother families

1,410

5.7% of families

Veterans

9,905

15.3% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 35,335 40.7%
• Catholic 5,273 6.1%
• Mainline Protestant 4,046 4.7%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 3,774 4.3%

Health insured

95.5%

±0.7 pp

Uninsured

4.5%

±0.7 pp

35th of 39

With a disability

16.9%

±1.1 pp

17th of 39

Bachelor's or higher

36.6%

±1.6 pp

−3.0 pp vs WA · 10th of 39

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

7.5%

90% interval 6.7%–8.3% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

13th Superior Court District

Judges

2 (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

Coupeville

Traffic fatalities

14

19.5 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

13