Marathon County, Wisconsin

• White (non-Hispanic) 119,281 86.2%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4,893 3.5%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 800 0.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 7,842 5.7%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 4,951 3.6%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 136 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 25 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 475 0.3%

• Under 18 31,130 22.5%
• 18–24 10,139 7.3%
• 25–44 34,413 24.9%
• 45–64 36,168 26.1%
• 65 and over 26,553 19.2%

Median household income

$79,414

90% interval $75,515–$83,313

+$1,857 vs WI · 19th of 72

Below poverty line

7.5%

90% interval 6.1%–8.9%

−2.8 pp vs WI · 64th of 72

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.0%

−0.35 pp vs. state

County GDP

$11.9B

2.62% of state

Avg. annual pay

$60,545

Establishments

4,072

• Manufacturing 18,025 25.8%
• Education & health services 15,114 21.7%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 13,319 19.1%
• Leisure & hospitality 6,254 9.0%
• Professional & business services 4,315 6.2%
• Financial activities 3,994 5.7%
• Construction 3,251 4.7%
• Public administration 1,673 2.4%
• Other services 1,461 2.1%
• Natural resources & mining 1,255 1.8%
• Information 489 0.7%

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

Home ownership

73.3%

+5.5 pp vs WI · 49th of 72

Median gross rent

$999

−$88 vs WI · 20th of 72

Owner-occupied

42,414

Renter-occupied

15,452

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 67% 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.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $82,564/yr) pays 4.1× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $20,077/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 17 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 46,213 58.7%
• Democratic 31,529 40.1%
• Other / third-party 933 1.2%

• Spanish 2,737 2.1%
• German or other West Germanic 1,083 0.8%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 248 0.2%
• Chinese 243 0.2%
• Tagalog 185 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 76 0.1%
• Vietnamese 75 0.1%
• Korean 15 0.0%
• Arabic 9 0.0%

Households

57,866

Family households

36,705

63.4% of households

Married couples w/ children

10,499

28.6% of families

Single-mother families

2,557

7.0% of families

Veterans

7,241

6.8% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 29,060 21.1%
• Evangelical Protestant 22,895 16.6%
• Mainline Protestant 13,846 10.0%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 4,361 3.2%
• Orthodox 25 0.0%

Health insured

94.2%

±0.5 pp

Uninsured

5.8%

±0.5 pp

28th of 72

With a disability

12.8%

±0.6 pp

44th of 72

Bachelor's or higher

28.1%

±0.9 pp

−5.3 pp vs WI · 26th of 72

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

6.4%

90% interval 5.8%–7.0% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Marathon County Circuit Court (9th Judicial District)

Judges

19 (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

Wausau

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

9

8.39 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

9