Whitman County, Washington

• White (non-Hispanic) 34,562 73.5%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3,827 8.1%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 647 1.4%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 3,191 6.8%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 4,045 8.6%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 157 0.3%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 94 0.2%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 480 1.0%

• Under 18 7,439 15.8%
• 18–24 14,992 31.9%
• 25–44 11,222 23.9%
• 45–64 7,753 16.5%
• 65 and over 5,597 11.9%

Median household income

$59,641

90% interval $53,604–$65,678

−$39,668 vs WA · 38th of 39

Below poverty line

23.0%

90% interval 20.4%–25.6%

+13.0 pp vs WA · 1st of 39

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.9%

−1.06 pp vs. state

County GDP

$3.4B

0.39% of state

Avg. annual pay

$68,510

Establishments

1,242

• Education & health services 8,495 45.0%
• Manufacturing 3,118 16.5%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 2,171 11.5%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,542 8.2%
• Public administration 1,023 5.4%
• Professional & business services 787 4.2%
• Construction 477 2.5%
• Natural resources & mining 427 2.3%
• Financial activities 410 2.2%
• Other services 293 1.6%
• Information 115 0.6%

Home ownership

46.8%

−17.0 pp vs WA · 39th of 39

Median gross rent

$1,049

−$711 vs WA · 28th of 39

Owner-occupied

8,765

Renter-occupied

9,956

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 73% 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 (Manufacturing, $95,233/yr) pays 3.9× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $24,382/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• 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 10,480 52.8%
• Republican 8,699 43.8%
• Other / third-party 666 3.4%

• Spanish 1,321 2.9%
• Chinese 1,012 2.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 372 0.8%
• Korean 328 0.7%
• German or other West Germanic 221 0.5%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 199 0.4%
• Tagalog 130 0.3%
• Vietnamese 82 0.2%
• Arabic 38 0.1%

Households

18,721

Family households

9,079

48.5% of households

Married couples w/ children

2,849

31.4% of families

Single-mother families

840

9.3% of families

Veterans

1,666

4.2% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 6,697 14.0%
• Catholic 3,081 6.4%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 3,072 6.4%
• Mainline Protestant 1,907 4.0%
• Orthodox 45 0.1%

Health insured

94.5%

±1 pp

Uninsured

5.5%

±1 pp

30th of 39

With a disability

14.6%

±1.3 pp

27th of 39

Bachelor's or higher

49.8%

±3.2 pp

+10.2 pp vs WA · 3rd of 39

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

7.7%

90% interval 6.5%–8.9% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

21st 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

Colfax

Traffic fatalities

5

12.64 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

5