Lewis County, West Virginia

• White (non-Hispanic) 15,063 90.0%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 232 1.4%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 184 1.1%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 21 0.1%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,205 7.2%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 19 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 16 0.1%

• Under 18 3,636 21.7%
• 18–24 1,177 7.0%
• 25–44 3,914 23.4%
• 45–64 4,485 26.8%
• 65 and over 3,528 21.1%

Median household income

$57,454

90% interval $51,696–$63,212

−$3,208 vs WV · 27th of 55

Below poverty line

16.2%

90% interval 12.5%–19.9%

+0.0 pp vs WV · 34th of 55

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.8%

+0.38 pp vs. state

County GDP

$724.1M

0.68% of state

Avg. annual pay

$52,143

Establishments

540

• Education & health services 1,763 30.8%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,343 23.5%
• Leisure & hospitality 831 14.5%
• Construction 580 10.1%
• Professional & business services 323 5.6%
• Natural resources & mining 245 4.3%
• Public administration 211 3.7%
• Manufacturing 193 3.4%
• Other services 114 2.0%
• Information 3 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 97.9% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

72.2%

−2.7 pp vs WV · 51st of 55

Median gross rent

$730

−$142 vs WV · 33rd of 55

Owner-occupied

5,031

Renter-occupied

1,936

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 69% 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, $93,321/yr) pays 3.8× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $24,280/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• 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 5,550 78.7%
• Democratic 1,372 19.5%
• Other / third-party 126 1.8%

• Spanish 93 0.6%
• German or other West Germanic 8 0.1%

Households

6,967

Family households

4,427

63.5% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,143

25.8% of families

Single-mother families

364

8.2% of families

Veterans

1,113

8.5% of civilians 18+

• Mainline Protestant 3,320 19.5%
• Catholic 1,147 6.7%
• Evangelical Protestant 668 3.9%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 213 1.3%

Health insured

93.5%

±1.5 pp

Uninsured

6.5%

±1.5 pp

24th of 55

With a disability

16.2%

±2.1 pp

46th of 55

Bachelor's or higher

18.9%

±2.9 pp

−5.2 pp vs WV · 25th 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

18th 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

Buckhannon, Weston

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

0

0 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

0