Brown County, Wisconsin

• White (non-Hispanic) 209,400 77.3%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 27,824 10.3%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 6,527 2.4%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 8,982 3.3%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 12,930 4.8%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 4,110 1.5%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 87 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 1,032 0.4%

• Under 18 62,260 23.0%
• 18–24 25,027 9.2%
• 25–44 71,882 26.5%
• 45–64 67,399 24.9%
• 65 and over 44,324 16.4%

Median household income

$80,803

90% interval $78,205–$83,401

+$3,246 vs WI · 16th of 72

Below poverty line

8.2%

90% interval 6.9%–9.5%

−2.1 pp vs WI · 59th of 72

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.0%

−0.29 pp vs. state

County GDP

$25.7B

5.67% of state

Avg. annual pay

$66,296

Establishments

7,708

• Education & health services 34,626 21.6%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 32,098 20.0%
• Manufacturing 29,386 18.3%
• Leisure & hospitality 17,410 10.9%
• Professional & business services 17,114 10.7%
• Financial activities 9,044 5.6%
• Construction 8,299 5.2%
• Other services 3,903 2.4%
• Public administration 3,719 2.3%
• Information 1,583 1.0%
• Natural resources & mining 1,060 0.7%

The sectors listed cover 98.7% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

66.0%

−1.8 pp vs WI · 67th of 72

Median gross rent

$1,031

−$56 vs WI · 18th of 72

Owner-occupied

73,206

Renter-occupied

37,727

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 60% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Compressed wage spread

  Highest-paid sector pays only 2.3× the lowest ($89,001 vs $38,493/yr), a relatively flat local wage distribution.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 21 workers, typical of an institutional-employer economy where large hospitals, plants, schools, and government agencies dominate. Expect many panelists to share an employer rather than work for themselves.

• Republican 79,132 53.1%
• Democratic 67,937 45.6%
• Other / third-party 1,891 1.3%

• Spanish 16,724 6.6%
• German or other West Germanic 681 0.3%
• Tagalog 464 0.2%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 425 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 386 0.2%
• Chinese 213 0.1%
• Vietnamese 207 0.1%
• Arabic 132 0.1%
• Korean 92 0.0%

Households

110,933

Family households

67,169

60.5% of households

Married couples w/ children

20,267

30.2% of families

Single-mother families

5,368

8.0% of families

Veterans

13,436

6.4% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 87,835 32.7%
• Evangelical Protestant 36,638 13.6%
• Mainline Protestant 17,479 6.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 4,581 1.7%
• Black Protestant 126 0.0%
• Orthodox 80 0.0%

Health insured

94.9%

±0.5 pp

Uninsured

5.1%

±0.5 pp

40th of 72

With a disability

11.8%

±0.6 pp

58th of 72

Bachelor's or higher

33.5%

±1 pp

+0.1 pp vs WI · 12th of 72

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

6.3%

90% interval 5.7%–6.9% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Brown County Circuit Court (8th Judicial District)

Judges

31 (Circuit Court judges aggregated across all counties in each administrative Judicial District (Wis. Stat. § 753.06); vintage 2026 wicourts.gov. Note: WI's Circuit Court is per-county (72 trial venues); the 9 active numbered Judicial Districts are administrative chief-judge regions, not jurisdictions. Municipal Court judges (limited jurisdiction: city ordinances) are separate and not counted here.)

Court seats

Green Bay

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

20

9.59 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

17