Pierce County, Washington

• White (non-Hispanic) 571,064 61.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 119,500 12.8%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 64,989 7.0%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 62,848 6.8%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 85,882 9.2%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 5,620 0.6%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 14,916 1.6%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 5,500 0.6%

• Under 18 214,038 23.0%
• 18–24 80,701 8.7%
• 25–44 278,113 29.9%
• 45–64 219,931 23.6%
• 65 and over 137,536 14.8%

Median household income

$100,125

90% interval $97,913–$102,337

+$816 vs WA · 4th of 39

Below poverty line

9.4%

90% interval 8.5%–10.3%

−0.6 pp vs WA · 33rd of 39

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.5%

+0.51 pp vs. state

County GDP

$64.9B

7.59% of state

Avg. annual pay

$73,973

Establishments

21,367

• Education & health services 95,706 28.4%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 75,303 22.3%
• Professional & business services 38,976 11.6%
• Leisure & hospitality 34,941 10.4%
• Construction 23,815 7.1%
• Public administration 20,256 6.0%
• Manufacturing 15,828 4.7%
• Financial activities 13,372 4.0%
• Other services 11,148 3.3%
• Information 2,691 0.8%
• Natural resources & mining 1,265 0.4%

The sectors listed cover 98.9% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

64.7%

+0.9 pp vs WA · 32nd of 39

Median gross rent

$1,806

+$46 vs WA · 4th of 39

Owner-occupied

227,400

Renter-occupied

123,930

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 62% 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 (Information, $190,491/yr) pays 5.8× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $32,979/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 16 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 235,169 53.9%
• Republican 188,194 43.1%
• Other / third-party 13,322 3.1%

• Spanish 57,004 6.5%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 13,153 1.5%
• Korean 10,129 1.2%
• Tagalog 10,019 1.1%
• Vietnamese 5,880 0.7%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 3,777 0.4%
• German or other West Germanic 3,732 0.4%
• Chinese 3,432 0.4%
• Arabic 1,398 0.2%

Households

351,330

Family households

235,924

67.2% of households

Married couples w/ children

73,044

31.0% of families

Single-mother families

21,528

9.1% of families

Veterans

75,769

10.9% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 225,067 24.4%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 80,175 8.7%
• Catholic 78,910 8.6%
• Mainline Protestant 19,272 2.1%
• Black Protestant 6,304 0.7%
• Orthodox 790 0.1%

Health insured

94.1%

±0.3 pp

Uninsured

5.9%

±0.3 pp

24th of 39

With a disability

14.1%

±0.3 pp

31st of 39

Bachelor's or higher

30.9%

−8.7 pp vs WA · 18th of 39

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

7.0%

90% interval 6.5%–7.5% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

2nd Superior Court District

Judges

23 (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

Tacoma

Traffic fatalities

102

14.24 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

94