Jury Pool Profile

Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska

Population: 110,677
Median household income: $90,625
Unemployment: 5.2%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 86,657 78.3%
Black or African American alone 1,420 1.3%
Asian alone 1,915 1.7%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 6,424 5.8%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 439 0.4%
Some other race alone 1,713 1.5%
Two or more races 12,109 10.9%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5,748 5.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 36.6

Under 18 28,719 25.9%
18–24 8,870 8.0%
25–44 31,184 28.2%
45–64 27,191 24.6%
65 and over 14,713 13.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 5.2%; +0.5 pp vs. state
County GDP: $4.5B; 6.24% of state
Avg. annual pay: $58,329
Establishments: 2,824

U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 8,671 29.4%
Trade, transportation & utilities 5,968 20.2%
Leisure & hospitality 3,718 12.6%
Construction 3,509 11.9%
Public administration 2,679 9.1%
Professional & business services 1,868 6.3%
Other services 988 3.3%
Financial activities 836 2.8%
Manufacturing 508 1.7%
Information 437 1.5%
Natural resources & mining 318 1.1%
Unclassified 16 0.1%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 76.6%
Median gross rent: $1,258
Owner-occupied: 30,411
Renter-occupied: 9,271

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

94.2% speak only English at home

Spanish 1,799 1.7%
Slavic languages 1,425 1.4%
Other Asian/Pacific 594 0.6%
Other 578 0.6%
German 498 0.5%
Tagalog 411 0.4%
Korean 187 0.2%
Other Indo-European 171 0.2%
French (incl. Cajun) 131 0.1%
Chinese 104 0.1%
Arabic 74 0.1%
Vietnamese 70 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 39,682
Family households: 27,839; 70.2% of households
Married w/ children: 21,675
Single-mother households: 2,051
Veterans: 11,042; 13.7% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

30.5% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 19,416 18.1%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 8,745 8.2%
Catholic 2,720 2.5%
Mainline Protestant 1,388 1.3%
Black Protestant 300 0.3%
Orthodox 138 0.1%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 87.8%
With a disability: 13.5%
Bachelor's or higher: 24.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 3rd Judicial District Superior Court
Judges: 24 (Superior Court judges per district (general civil + criminal jurisdiction); District Court judges (limited jurisdiction) separate; vintage 2026 courts.alaska.gov)
Court seats: ( Consolidated city-borough ), Anchorage, Dillingham, Glennallen, King Salmon, Kodiak, Naknek, Palmer, Sand Point, Soldotna, Unalaska

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Alaska statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 13; 15.86 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 12

NHTSA FARS 2023