Yakima County, Washington

• White (non-Hispanic) 101,208 39.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 134,645 52.4%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 1,628 0.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 2,861 1.1%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 8,909 3.5%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 5,925 2.3%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 917 0.4%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 1,059 0.4%

• Under 18 74,398 28.9%
• 18–24 24,756 9.6%
• 25–44 66,128 25.7%
• 45–64 54,603 21.2%
• 65 and over 37,267 14.5%

Median household income

$72,458

90% interval $68,346–$76,570

−$26,851 vs WA · 26th of 39

Below poverty line

16.7%

90% interval 14.8%–18.6%

+6.7 pp vs WA · 4th of 39

Unemployment (12-mo)

6.1%

+1.12 pp vs. state

County GDP

$13.3B

1.56% of state

Avg. annual pay

$53,739

Establishments

6,433

• Education & health services 29,732 25.8%
• Natural resources & mining 28,750 24.9%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 20,140 17.4%
• Leisure & hospitality 8,203 7.1%
• Manufacturing 7,365 6.4%
• Public administration 6,470 5.6%
• Professional & business services 5,026 4.4%
• Construction 3,880 3.4%
• Financial activities 2,341 2.0%
• Other services 1,975 1.7%
• Information 540 0.5%

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

Home ownership

61.8%

−2.0 pp vs WA · 36th of 39

Median gross rent

$1,109

−$651 vs WA · 23rd of 39

Owner-occupied

54,244

Renter-occupied

33,464

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 68% 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 (Financial activities, $75,728/yr) pays 2.7× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $27,706/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 18 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Republican 49,368 55.9%
• Democratic 36,706 41.6%
• Other / third-party 2,206 2.5%

• Spanish 96,208 40.3%
• Arabic 549 0.2%
• Tagalog 410 0.2%
• German or other West Germanic 393 0.2%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 309 0.1%
• Vietnamese 267 0.1%
• Chinese 208 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 175 0.1%
• Korean 124 0.1%

Households

87,708

Family households

61,577

70.2% of households

Married couples w/ children

16,814

27.3% of families

Single-mother families

8,148

13.2% of families

Veterans

9,764

5.4% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 60,094 23.4%
• Evangelical Protestant 39,313 15.3%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 15,271 5.9%
• Mainline Protestant 3,446 1.3%
• Black Protestant 958 0.4%
• Orthodox 350 0.1%

Health insured

87.3%

±0.6 pp

Uninsured

12.7%

±0.6 pp

6th of 39

With a disability

13.9%

±0.6 pp

33rd of 39

Bachelor's or higher

19.2%

±0.9 pp

−20.4 pp vs WA · 34th of 39

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

15.3%

90% interval 14.2%–16.4% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

8th 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

Yakima

Traffic fatalities

35

19.15 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

32