Jackson County, West Virginia

• White (non-Hispanic) 26,488 95.6%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 292 1.1%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 39 0.1%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 110 0.4%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 634 2.3%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 7 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 14 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 121 0.4%

• Under 18 5,942 21.4%
• 18–24 1,991 7.2%
• 25–44 6,266 22.6%
• 45–64 7,619 27.5%
• 65 and over 5,887 21.2%

Median household income

$63,024

90% interval $56,276–$69,772

+$2,362 vs WV · 13th of 55

Below poverty line

17.5%

90% interval 14.7%–20.3%

+1.3 pp vs WV · 23rd of 55

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.4%

+1 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.1B

1% of state

Avg. annual pay

$54,912

Establishments

733

• Education & health services 1,876 24.3%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,682 21.8%
• Manufacturing 1,626 21.0%
• Leisure & hospitality 833 10.8%
• Public administration 401 5.2%
• Professional & business services 348 4.5%
• Financial activities 302 3.9%
• Other services 180 2.3%
• Construction 44 0.6%
• Information 8 0.1%

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

Home ownership

78.6%

+3.7 pp vs WV · 27th of 55

Median gross rent

$716

−$156 vs WV · 35th of 55

Owner-occupied

9,056

Renter-occupied

2,459

• 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, $88,083/yr) pays 4.7× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $18,633/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 9,907 77.3%
• Democratic 2,699 21.0%
• Other / third-party 216 1.7%

• Spanish 245 0.9%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 104 0.4%
• German or other West Germanic 90 0.3%
• Tagalog 55 0.2%
• Chinese 20 0.1%
• Korean 14 0.1%

Households

11,515

Family households

7,307

63.5% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,859

25.4% of families

Single-mother families

473

6.5% of families

Veterans

1,911

8.8% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 7,014 25.2%
• Mainline Protestant 5,069 18.2%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 801 2.9%
• Catholic 403 1.5%

Health insured

93.8%

±2 pp

Uninsured

6.2%

±2 pp

29th of 55

With a disability

22.1%

±2.3 pp

17th of 55

Bachelor's or higher

19.6%

±2.6 pp

−4.5 pp vs WV · 23rd of 55

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

7.3%

90% interval 6.4%–8.2% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

5th Judicial Circuit Court

Judges

3 (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

Grantsville, Point Pleasant, Ripley, Spencer

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

2

9.19 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

1