Tyler County, West Virginia

• White (non-Hispanic) 7,571 93.9%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 88 1.1%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 71 0.9%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 327 4.1%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 6 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 1 0.0%

• Under 18 1,561 19.4%
• 18–24 519 6.4%
• 25–44 1,631 20.2%
• 45–64 2,398 29.7%
• 65 and over 1,955 24.2%

Median household income

$65,585

90% interval $57,842–$73,328

+$4,923 vs WV · 6th of 55

Below poverty line

16.6%

90% interval 13.4%–19.8%

+0.4 pp vs WV · 28th of 55

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.3%

+0.84 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.5B

1.37% of state

Avg. annual pay

$62,136

Establishments

171

• Education & health services 560 28.6%
• Manufacturing 454 23.2%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 420 21.5%
• Public administration 158 8.1%
• Leisure & hospitality 78 4.0%
• Financial activities 76 3.9%
• Professional & business services 55 2.8%
• Construction 26 1.3%
• Information 9 0.5%

The sectors listed cover 93.8% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

84.1%

+9.2 pp vs WV · 8th of 55

Median gross rent

$748

−$124 vs WV · 32nd of 55

Owner-occupied

2,771

Renter-occupied

525

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 73% 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, $101,521/yr) pays 7.3× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $13,885/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 2,991 82.7%
• Democratic 554 15.3%
• Other / third-party 72 2.0%

• Spanish 39 0.5%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 23 0.3%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 7 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 7 0.1%

Households

3,296

Family households

2,021

61.3% of households

Married couples w/ children

449

22.2% of families

Single-mother families

134

6.6% of families

Veterans

571

8.8% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 1,293 15.6%
• Mainline Protestant 1,148 13.8%
• Catholic 182 2.2%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1 0.0%

Health insured

92.1%

±3 pp

Uninsured

7.9%

±3 pp

8th of 55

With a disability

24.0%

±3.4 pp

11th of 55

Bachelor's or higher

15.9%

±3.4 pp

−8.2 pp vs WV · 35th of 55

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

5.9%

90% interval 5.0%–6.8% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

2nd 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

Middlebourne, Moundsville, New Martinsville

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

2

30.76 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

2