Waupaca County, Wisconsin

• White (non-Hispanic) 47,642 92.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2,006 3.9%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 252 0.5%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 133 0.3%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,320 2.6%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 93 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 1 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 122 0.2%

• Under 18 10,369 20.1%
• 18–24 3,512 6.8%
• 25–44 11,690 22.7%
• 45–64 15,031 29.1%
• 65 and over 10,967 21.3%

Median household income

$76,754

90% interval $70,991–$82,517

−$803 vs WI · 25th of 72

Below poverty line

9.0%

90% interval 7.4%–10.6%

−1.3 pp vs WI · 52nd of 72

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.1%

−0.15 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.5B

0.55% of state

Avg. annual pay

$49,799

Establishments

1,417

• Manufacturing 5,270 28.5%
• Education & health services 4,017 21.7%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 3,012 16.3%
• Leisure & hospitality 2,041 11.0%
• Construction 776 4.2%
• Public administration 719 3.9%
• Professional & business services 680 3.7%
• Other services 452 2.4%
• Financial activities 437 2.4%
• Natural resources & mining 386 2.1%
• Information 110 0.6%

The sectors listed cover 96.9% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

75.3%

+7.5 pp vs WI · 42nd of 72

Median gross rent

$852

−$235 vs WI · 42nd of 72

Owner-occupied

17,000

Renter-occupied

5,571

• 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 (Manufacturing, $69,535/yr) pays 4.1× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $17,138/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 13 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 20,093 66.2%
• Democratic 9,947 32.8%
• Other / third-party 327 1.1%

• Spanish 1,078 2.2%
• German or other West Germanic 411 0.8%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 76 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 34 0.1%
• Tagalog 28 0.1%
• Vietnamese 16 0.0%

Households

22,571

Family households

14,706

65.2% of households

Married couples w/ children

3,386

23.0% of families

Single-mother families

1,201

8.2% of families

Veterans

3,136

7.6% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 15,228 29.4%
• Catholic 6,069 11.7%
• Mainline Protestant 5,956 11.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 556 1.1%

Health insured

94.1%

±0.8 pp

Uninsured

5.9%

±0.8 pp

26th of 72

With a disability

14.4%

±0.9 pp

27th of 72

Bachelor's or higher

20.5%

±1.4 pp

−12.9 pp vs WI · 54th of 72

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

7.2%

90% interval 6.5%–7.9% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Waupaca 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

Waupaca

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

3

7.28 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

3