Boone County, West Virginia

• White (non-Hispanic) 20,415 97.1%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 143 0.7%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 86 0.4%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 35 0.2%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 342 1.6%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 5 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%

• Under 18 4,317 20.5%
• 18–24 1,605 7.6%
• 25–44 4,511 21.5%
• 45–64 5,937 28.2%
• 65 and over 4,656 22.1%

Median household income

$52,928

90% interval $47,881–$57,975

−$7,734 vs WV · 40th of 55

Below poverty line

18.8%

90% interval 14.3%–23.3%

+2.6 pp vs WV · 17th of 55

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.3%

+0.9 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.1B

1.02% of state

Avg. annual pay

$58,100

Establishments

432

• Education & health services 1,775 38.6%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 874 19.0%
• Natural resources & mining 590 12.8%
• Professional & business services 330 7.2%
• Public administration 308 6.7%
• Leisure & hospitality 240 5.2%
• Other services 160 3.5%
• Construction 30 0.7%
• Information 7 0.2%

The sectors listed cover 93.8% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

81.3%

+6.4 pp vs WV · 19th of 55

Median gross rent

$837

−$35 vs WV · 15th of 55

Owner-occupied

6,446

Renter-occupied

1,481

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 70% 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 (Natural resources & mining, $118,689/yr) pays 6.2× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $19,053/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 11 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 6,314 77.5%
• Democratic 1,641 20.2%
• Other / third-party 187 2.3%

• Spanish 98 0.5%
• Chinese 26 0.1%
• Korean 15 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 10 0.1%
• Vietnamese 3 0.0%

Households

7,927

Family households

5,328

67.2% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,242

23.3% of families

Single-mother families

412

7.7% of families

Veterans

1,119

6.7% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 2,391 11.0%
• Mainline Protestant 1,898 8.7%
• Black Protestant 728 3.3%
• Catholic 108 0.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 3 0.0%

Health insured

95.4%

±1.2 pp

Uninsured

4.6%

±1.2 pp

52nd of 55

With a disability

26.0%

±2.7 pp

7th of 55

Bachelor's or higher

11.5%

±1.9 pp

−12.6 pp vs WV · 50th of 55

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

6.8%

90% interval 5.9%–7.7% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

9th Judicial Circuit Court

Judges

2 (Circuit Court judges per circuit (general civil + felony criminal jurisdiction); vintage 2026 courtswv.gov; cross-checked against W. Va. Code § 51-2-1a. Magistrate Courts (limited jurisdiction: misdemeanors, traffic, small civil up to $10K) are separately allocated one per county and not counted here. Family Court judges (domestic relations) also separate.)

Court seats

Hamlin, Madison

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

2

11.97 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

2