Monongalia County, West Virginia

• White (non-Hispanic) 91,918 85.8%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3,397 3.2%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 3,334 3.1%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 3,738 3.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 3,962 3.7%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 56 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 1 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 757 0.7%

• Under 18 17,265 16.1%
• 18–24 23,391 21.8%
• 25–44 30,209 28.2%
• 45–64 21,928 20.5%
• 65 and over 14,370 13.4%

Median household income

$67,259

90% interval $62,392–$72,126

+$6,597 vs WV · 5th of 55

Below poverty line

18.1%

90% interval 16.1%–20.1%

+1.9 pp vs WV · 20th of 55

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.6%

−0.84 pp vs. state

County GDP

$9.4B

8.84% of state

Avg. annual pay

$68,076

Establishments

4,368

• Education & health services 26,884 45.0%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 8,548 14.3%
• Professional & business services 7,162 12.0%
• Leisure & hospitality 6,578 11.0%
• Construction 2,489 4.2%
• Public administration 2,015 3.4%
• Other services 1,704 2.9%
• Financial activities 1,606 2.7%
• Manufacturing 1,358 2.3%
• Natural resources & mining 751 1.3%
• Information 638 1.1%
• Unclassified 40 0.1%

Home ownership

57.9%

−17.0 pp vs WV · 55th of 55

Median gross rent

$987

+$115 vs WV · 3rd of 55

Owner-occupied

25,818

Renter-occupied

18,811

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 71% 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 (Natural resources & mining, $108,910/yr) pays 4.6× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $23,815/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 14 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 21,084 50.9%
• Democratic 19,265 46.5%
• Other / third-party 1,103 2.7%

• Spanish 1,575 1.5%
• Arabic 968 0.9%
• Chinese 817 0.8%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 406 0.4%
• Vietnamese 296 0.3%
• German or other West Germanic 209 0.2%
• Tagalog 204 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 153 0.1%
• Korean 141 0.1%

Households

44,629

Family households

23,106

51.8% of households

Married couples w/ children

7,037

30.5% of families

Single-mother families

2,203

9.5% of families

Veterans

4,377

4.9% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 9,490 9.0%
• Evangelical Protestant 7,946 7.5%
• Mainline Protestant 7,684 7.3%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,443 2.3%
• Orthodox 127 0.1%
• Black Protestant 110 0.1%

Health insured

94.7%

±0.6 pp

Uninsured

5.3%

±0.6 pp

44th of 55

With a disability

12.7%

±1 pp

55th of 55

Bachelor's or higher

48.9%

±1.9 pp

+24.8 pp vs WV · 1st of 55

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

6.5%

90% interval 5.7%–7.3% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

21st 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

Morgantown

Traffic fatalities

15

16.69 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

14