Wayne County, West Virginia

• White (non-Hispanic) 36,534 95.7%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 346 0.9%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 366 1.0%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 17 0.0%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 821 2.2%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 80 0.2%

• Under 18 7,783 20.4%
• 18–24 2,849 7.5%
• 25–44 8,568 22.5%
• 45–64 10,479 27.5%
• 65 and over 8,485 22.2%

Median household income

$61,452

90% interval $57,419–$65,485

+$790 vs WV · 18th of 55

Below poverty line

14.9%

90% interval 11.1%–18.7%

−1.3 pp vs WV · 39th of 55

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.8%

+0.39 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.3B

1.27% of state

Avg. annual pay

$61,428

Establishments

712

• Education & health services 3,604 42.8%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,798 21.4%
• Manufacturing 748 8.9%
• Leisure & hospitality 662 7.9%
• Construction 474 5.6%
• Public administration 393 4.7%
• Professional & business services 319 3.8%
• Other services 128 1.5%
• Information 110 1.3%
• Financial activities 100 1.2%
• Natural resources & mining 76 0.9%

Home ownership

78.6%

+3.7 pp vs WV · 28th of 55

Median gross rent

$915

+$43 vs WV · 8th of 55

Owner-occupied

12,388

Renter-occupied

3,374

• 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 (Natural resources & mining, $91,716/yr) pays 4.9× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $18,906/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 11,934 75.8%
• Democratic 3,532 22.4%
• Other / third-party 281 1.8%

• Spanish 329 0.9%
• Arabic 53 0.1%
• Korean 48 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 10 0.0%

Households

15,762

Family households

10,572

67.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

2,447

23.1% of families

Single-mother families

673

6.4% of families

Veterans

2,434

8% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 6,114 15.7%
• Mainline Protestant 3,820 9.8%
• Black Protestant 832 2.1%
• Orthodox 90 0.2%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2 0.0%

Health insured

95.3%

±1 pp

Uninsured

4.7%

±1 pp

51st of 55

With a disability

22.8%

±1.9 pp

16th of 55

Bachelor's or higher

19.2%

±2.2 pp

−4.9 pp vs WV · 24th of 55

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

7.5%

90% interval 6.6%–8.4% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

10th 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

Wayne

Traffic fatalities

5

16.46 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

5