Thurston County, Washington

• White (non-Hispanic) 207,943 69.5%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 31,748 10.6%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 9,445 3.2%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 18,056 6.0%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 23,615 7.9%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 2,537 0.8%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 2,968 1.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 2,755 0.9%

• Under 18 62,380 20.9%
• 18–24 22,503 7.5%
• 25–44 86,190 28.8%
• 45–64 71,922 24.0%
• 65 and over 56,072 18.7%

Median household income

$97,316

90% interval $92,488–$102,144

−$1,993 vs WA · 6th of 39

Below poverty line

8.5%

90% interval 7.3%–9.7%

−1.5 pp vs WA · 37th of 39

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.5%

−0.48 pp vs. state

County GDP

$21.6B

2.52% of state

Avg. annual pay

$76,235

Establishments

8,600

• Public administration 31,024 23.9%
• Education & health services 28,174 21.7%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 21,867 16.8%
• Professional & business services 15,589 12.0%
• Leisure & hospitality 11,390 8.8%
• Construction 6,232 4.8%
• Other services 4,183 3.2%
• Financial activities 3,940 3.0%
• Manufacturing 2,966 2.3%
• Information 1,816 1.4%
• Natural resources & mining 1,443 1.1%

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

Home ownership

67.7%

+3.9 pp vs WA · 27th of 39

Median gross rent

$1,736

−$24 vs WA · 6th of 39

Owner-occupied

80,487

Renter-occupied

38,412

• 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, $144,119/yr) pays 4.7× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $30,845/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 15 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 95,663 58.5%
• Republican 62,282 38.1%
• Other / third-party 5,692 3.5%

• Spanish 12,753 4.5%
• German or other West Germanic 3,090 1.1%
• Vietnamese 3,088 1.1%
• Tagalog 2,378 0.8%
• Korean 2,150 0.8%
• Chinese 1,113 0.4%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 837 0.3%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 768 0.3%
• Arabic 448 0.2%

Households

118,899

Family households

77,442

65.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

21,839

28.2% of families

Single-mother families

6,084

7.9% of families

Veterans

28,932

12.6% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 64,199 21.8%
• Catholic 24,117 8.2%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 13,013 4.4%
• Mainline Protestant 5,748 1.9%
• Black Protestant 626 0.2%
• Orthodox 38 0.0%

Health insured

95.0%

±0.4 pp

Uninsured

5.0%

±0.4 pp

34th of 39

With a disability

16.1%

±0.7 pp

21st of 39

Bachelor's or higher

38.5%

±1 pp

−1.1 pp vs WA · 6th of 39

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

7.1%

90% interval 6.4%–7.8% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

6th Superior Court District

Judges

8 (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

Olympia

Traffic fatalities

26

10.98 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

26