Fayette County, West Virginia

• White (non-Hispanic) 36,140 91.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 549 1.4%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 1,640 4.1%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 21 0.1%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,033 2.6%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 10 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 126 0.3%

• Under 18 8,175 20.7%
• 18–24 2,593 6.6%
• 25–44 9,077 23.0%
• 45–64 10,803 27.3%
• 65 and over 8,871 22.4%

Median household income

$47,998

90% interval $44,339–$51,657

−$12,664 vs WV · 50th of 55

Below poverty line

20.8%

90% interval 17.0%–24.6%

+4.6 pp vs WV · 10th of 55

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.1%

+0.7 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.6B

1.48% of state

Avg. annual pay

$48,379

Establishments

1,224

• Education & health services 3,182 30.6%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 2,105 20.2%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,664 16.0%
• Public administration 976 9.4%
• Professional & business services 503 4.8%
• Manufacturing 432 4.2%
• Other services 416 4.0%
• Natural resources & mining 377 3.6%
• Construction 339 3.3%
• Financial activities 322 3.1%
• Information 77 0.7%
• Unclassified 5 0.0%

Home ownership

77.7%

+2.8 pp vs WV · 31st of 55

Median gross rent

$788

−$84 vs WV · 26th of 55

Owner-occupied

12,387

Renter-occupied

3,561

• 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.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Natural resources & mining, $92,402/yr) pays 3.6× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $25,349/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Small-business scale

  Average establishment employs only 8.5 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

• Republican 10,910 69.8%
• Democratic 4,387 28.1%
• Other / third-party 323 2.1%

• Spanish 70 0.2%
• Arabic 19 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 11 0.0%
• German or other West Germanic 5 0.0%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 2 0.0%

Households

15,948

Family households

10,355

64.9% of households

Married couples w/ children

2,165

20.9% of families

Single-mother families

745

7.2% of families

Veterans

2,629

8.4% of civilians 18+

• Mainline Protestant 6,886 17.0%
• Evangelical Protestant 5,387 13.3%
• Catholic 1,508 3.7%
• Black Protestant 528 1.3%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 131 0.3%

Health insured

92.0%

±1.3 pp

Uninsured

8.0%

±1.3 pp

5th of 55

With a disability

21.4%

±1.3 pp

21st of 55

Bachelor's or higher

15.8%

±1.8 pp

−8.3 pp vs WV · 36th of 55

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

7.6%

90% interval 6.7%–8.5% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

15th 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

Fayetteville

Traffic fatalities

2

6.38 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

2