Mineral County, West Virginia

• White (non-Hispanic) 24,804 92.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 332 1.2%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 356 1.3%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 29 0.1%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,077 4.0%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 102 0.4%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 12 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 142 0.5%

• Under 18 5,406 20.1%
• 18–24 1,960 7.3%
• 25–44 6,222 23.2%
• 45–64 7,195 26.8%
• 65 and over 6,071 22.6%

Median household income

$63,375

90% interval $57,073–$69,677

+$2,713 vs WV · 10th of 55

Below poverty line

13.2%

90% interval 10.2%–16.2%

−3.0 pp vs WV · 50th of 55

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.5%

+0.07 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.1B

1.01% of state

Avg. annual pay

$58,083

Establishments

736

• Education & health services 2,438 28.3%
• Manufacturing 1,992 23.1%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,423 16.5%
• Leisure & hospitality 497 5.8%
• Professional & business services 455 5.3%
• Public administration 255 3.0%
• Construction 210 2.4%
• Other services 198 2.3%
• Financial activities 193 2.2%
• Information 10 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 89.0% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

81.0%

+6.1 pp vs WV · 22nd of 55

Median gross rent

$809

−$63 vs WV · 23rd of 55

Owner-occupied

9,005

Renter-occupied

2,115

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 68% 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, $87,404/yr) pays 5.2× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $16,914/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• 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 10,247 79.4%
• Democratic 2,483 19.2%
• Other / third-party 174 1.3%

• Spanish 223 0.9%
• German or other West Germanic 92 0.4%
• Chinese 25 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 19 0.1%
• Tagalog 4 0.0%
• Arabic 1 0.0%

Households

11,120

Family households

7,505

67.5% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,735

23.1% of families

Single-mother families

653

8.7% of families

Veterans

1,641

7.7% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 3,943 14.6%
• Mainline Protestant 3,714 13.8%
• Catholic 1,773 6.6%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 551 2.0%
• Black Protestant 120 0.4%

Health insured

95.1%

±1.3 pp

Uninsured

4.9%

±1.3 pp

50th of 55

With a disability

15.9%

±1.8 pp

48th of 55

Bachelor's or higher

23.7%

±2.9 pp

−0.4 pp vs WV · 11th 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

25th 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

Keyser, Petersburg

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

4

18.65 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

4