Brooke County, West Virginia

• White (non-Hispanic) 20,151 92.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 310 1.4%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 327 1.5%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 144 0.7%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 862 4.0%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 7 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 4 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%

• Under 18 3,741 17.2%
• 18–24 2,019 9.3%
• 25–44 4,697 21.5%
• 45–64 5,855 26.9%
• 65 and over 5,493 25.2%

Median household income

$60,780

90% interval $54,611–$66,949

+$118 vs WV · 19th of 55

Below poverty line

13.6%

90% interval 10.7%–16.5%

−2.6 pp vs WV · 48th of 55

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.0%

+0.55 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.3B

1.24% of state

Avg. annual pay

$57,049

Establishments

630

• Education & health services 2,759 37.1%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,236 16.6%
• Manufacturing 1,228 16.5%
• Leisure & hospitality 863 11.6%
• Professional & business services 392 5.3%
• Public administration 282 3.8%
• Financial activities 215 2.9%
• Construction 26 0.3%
• Information 12 0.2%
• Other services 10 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 94.4% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

74.6%

−0.3 pp vs WV · 44th of 55

Median gross rent

$645

−$227 vs WV · 48th of 55

Owner-occupied

7,220

Renter-occupied

2,455

• 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.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Manufacturing, $84,085/yr) pays 4.0× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $21,142/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 12 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 6,986 71.4%
• Democratic 2,621 26.8%
• Other / third-party 175 1.8%

• Vietnamese 118 0.6%
• Spanish 85 0.4%
• German or other West Germanic 29 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 19 0.1%
• Tagalog 8 0.0%
• Chinese 4 0.0%

Households

9,675

Family households

5,471

56.5% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,016

18.6% of families

Single-mother families

431

7.9% of families

Veterans

1,159

6.4% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 2,921 12.9%
• Catholic 1,855 8.2%
• Mainline Protestant 1,469 6.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 267 1.2%
• Orthodox 65 0.3%
• Black Protestant 40 0.2%

Health insured

94.0%

±1.7 pp

Uninsured

6.0%

±1.7 pp

34th of 55

With a disability

17.1%

±1.7 pp

41st of 55

Bachelor's or higher

23.4%

±2.7 pp

−0.7 pp vs WV · 13th of 55

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

6.2%

90% interval 5.4%–7.0% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

1st Judicial Circuit Court

Judges

4 (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

New Cumberland, Wellsburg, Wheeling

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

2

11.07 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

2