Jury Pool Profile

Chambers County, Alabama

Republican +23.3 (2024)

County seat: LaFayette
Judicial district: 5th Judicial Circuit Court
Population (July 2025 estimate): 34,253; Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 34,192.

At a glance

Chambers County is a 34,253-person venue. The county population is 55% White and 38% Black (Census race-alone categories). Median household income is $51,067, $15,637 below the AL state median of $66,704; 14.9% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 3.6% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, most commonly Spanish and Korean. The largest employment sector is Manufacturing, at 30.0% of covered employment, average pay $71,657/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 2.58%, below the 2.86% state average. The county carried the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking 57% to 61% of the vote across the three.

Population: 34,192
Median household income: $49,656
Unemployment: 2.6%

Who sits on a jury?

Racially mixed

50–70% White and ≥15% Black. This county: 55% / 38%.

Chambers County has a population of 34,192, with a median age of 41.3. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 55.0%; Black residents 38.4%. Independently, 4.0% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The median household earns $51,067; 14.9% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 18.9% live below the federal poverty line.

Race & ethnicity

White (non-Hispanic) 18,421 53.9%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,372 4.0%
Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 13,121 38.4%
Asian (non-Hispanic) 81 0.2%
Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,079 3.2%
American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 22 0.1%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 3 0.0%
Some other race (non-Hispanic) 93 0.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Age distribution

Median age 41.3

Under 18 7,149 20.9%
18–24 2,754 8.1%
25–44 8,143 23.8%
45–64 9,207 26.9%
65 and over 6,939 20.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Income & poverty

Median household income: $51,067; 90% interval $46,651–$55,483; −$15,637 vs AL · 49th of 67
Below poverty line: 18.9%; 90% interval 14.7%–23.1%; +3.7 pp vs AL · 26th of 67

U.S. Census SAIPE 2024

Economic context

Manufacturing-heavy

BLS QCEW 'Manufacturing' is ≥15% of total covered employment. This county: 30.0%.

Manufacturing is the largest employment sector at 30.0% of covered employment, followed by Education & health services at 18.2%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 2.58%, below the Alabama state average.

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 2.6%; −0.28 pp vs. state
County GDP: $1.2B; 0.38% of state
Avg. annual pay: $52,414
Establishments: 823

U.S. BLS 2026M07 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2025

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Manufacturing 2,805 30.0%
Education & health services 1,706 18.2%
Trade, transportation & utilities 1,672 17.9%
Leisure & hospitality 891 9.5%
Professional & business services 854 9.1%
Public administration 577 6.2%
Construction 270 2.9%
Natural resources & mining 186 2.0%
Financial activities 160 1.7%
Other services 112 1.2%
Information 71 0.8%
Unclassified 6 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 99.5% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

BLS QCEW 2025

Housing

Home ownership: 71.8%; +1.6 pp vs AL · 43rd of 67
Median gross rent: $871; −$136 vs AL · 19th of 67
Owner-occupied: 9,643
Renter-occupied: 3,791

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Local economy in 3 reads

Concentrated

Top three sectors employ 66% 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.
Moderate wage spread

Highest-paid sector (Information, $76,846/yr) pays 3.9× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $19,709/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.
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.

BLS QCEW 2025

Political composition

Consistently Republican

Republican candidate carried this county in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (avg winning share: 58%). 'Strongly' threshold: ≥60% avg.

Chambers County was carried by the Republican candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 61.3% in 2024, 57.3% in 2020, 56.6% in 2016.

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 14,221 votes cast

Republican
Democratic

Republican 8,711 61.3%
Democratic 5,405 38.0%
Other / third-party 105 0.7%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Family-majority, English-speaking

Family households are 68% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 3.6% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).

3.6% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, Korean, French, Haitian, or Cajun. Veterans account for 7.2% of the adult civilian population (1,933 individuals).

Languages spoken at home

96.4% speak only English at home

Spanish 749 2.3%
Korean 57 0.2%
French, Haitian, or Cajun 25 0.1%
Chinese 21 0.1%
German or other West Germanic 20 0.1%
Vietnamese 1 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Household composition

Households: 13,434
Family households: 9,097; 67.7% of households
Married couples w/ children: 1,647; 18.1% of families
Single-mother families: 812; 8.9% of families
Veterans: 1,933; 7.2% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Religious composition

55.7% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 10,794 31.0%
Black Protestant 5,480 15.8%
Mainline Protestant 1,968 5.7%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 876 2.5%
Catholic 263 0.8%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 89.0%; ±1.4 pp
Uninsured: 11.0%; ±1.4 pp; 12th of 67
With a disability: 20.2%; ±1.7 pp; 29th of 67
Bachelor's or higher: 14.9%; ±1.9 pp; −13.5 pp vs AL · 49th of 67
Uninsured, under 65 (2024): 10.3%; 90% interval 9.1%–11.5% · Census SAHIE

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

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 5th Judicial Circuit Court
Judges: 3 (Circuit Court judges per circuit (general civil + felony criminal jurisdiction); District Court judges (limited jurisdiction) separate. Vintage 2026 alacourt.gov; counts for the 34th, 36th, and 41st circuits are approximate (single-county rural circuits typically carry 1 judge per Ala. Code § 12-17-23).)
Court seats: Dadeville, LaFayette, Tuskegee, Wedowee

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Chambers totals, 2024 — the per-100k rate is based on 6 recorded deaths, too few to be statistically reliable

Traffic fatalities: 6; 22.19 per 100k adults (18+)
Fatal crashes: 4

NHTSA FARS 2024

Civil docket composition

Filings in this county, 2025

Contract, ejectment and seizure was the largest civil litigation category, at 19.7% of 178 filings. Motor-vehicle negligence ranked #3 at 18.5%.

Contract, ejectment and seizure 35 19.7%
Account collection 33 18.5%
Motor-vehicle negligence 33 18.5%
Other civil 24 13.5%
Equity, non-damage 12 6.7%
Negligence, general 11 6.2%

A further 90 filings in this division were protective orders, forfeitures or other non-litigation matters, and are excluded from these shares.

State judiciary caseload statistics

Presidential vote share by year
Year	Republican	Democratic
2016	56.6%	41.8%
2020	57.3%	41.6%
2024	61.3%	38.0%