Jury Pool Profile

Dale County, Alabama

Republican +52.3 (2024)

County seat: Ozark
Judicial district: 33rd Judicial Circuit Court
Population (July 2025 estimate): 49,912; Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 49,599.

At a glance

Dale County is a 49,912-person venue. The county population is 68% White and 20% Black (Census race-alone categories). Median household income is $58,359, $8,345 below the AL state median of $66,704; 20.4% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 5.7% 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 22.0% of covered employment, average pay $91,315/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.4%, above the 2.86% state average. The county carried the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking 72% to 76% of the vote across the three.

Population: 49,599
Median household income: $54,963
Unemployment: 3.4%

Who sits on a jury?

Racially mixed

50–70% White and ≥15% Black. This county: 68% / 20%.

Dale County has a population of 49,599, with a median age of 37.7. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 67.6%; Black residents 20.4%. Independently, 7.1% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The median household earns $58,359; 20.4% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 17.3% live below the federal poverty line.

Race & ethnicity

White (non-Hispanic) 32,778 66.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3,533 7.1%
Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 10,063 20.3%
Asian (non-Hispanic) 587 1.2%
Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 2,397 4.8%
American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 103 0.2%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 10 0.0%
Some other race (non-Hispanic) 128 0.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Age distribution

Median age 37.7

Under 18 11,571 23.3%
18–24 4,387 8.8%
25–44 12,838 25.9%
45–64 11,834 23.9%
65 and over 8,969 18.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Income & poverty

Median household income: $58,359; 90% interval $53,545–$63,173; −$8,345 vs AL · 30th of 67
Below poverty line: 17.3%; 90% interval 14.3%–20.3%; +2.1 pp vs AL · 37th of 67

U.S. Census SAIPE 2024

Economic context

Healthcare & education anchored

BLS QCEW 'Education & health services' is ≥20% of total covered employment. This county: 21.9%.

Manufacturing is the largest employment sector at 22.0% of covered employment, followed by Education & health services at 21.9%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.4%, above the Alabama state average.

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.4%; +0.54 pp vs. state
County GDP: $3.9B; 1.2% of state
Avg. annual pay: $67,154
Establishments: 1,148

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Manufacturing 3,963 22.0%
Education & health services 3,952 21.9%
Trade, transportation & utilities 3,225 17.9%
Public administration 2,285 12.7%
Professional & business services 1,613 9.0%
Leisure & hospitality 1,322 7.3%
Construction 683 3.8%
Financial activities 392 2.2%
Other services 224 1.2%
Information 122 0.7%
Natural resources & mining 87 0.5%

The sectors listed cover 99.2% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

BLS QCEW 2025

Housing

Home ownership: 61.9%; −8.3 pp vs AL · 61st of 67
Median gross rent: $889; −$118 vs AL · 17th of 67
Owner-occupied: 12,210
Renter-occupied: 7,517

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Local economy in 3 reads

Moderately concentrated

Top three sectors employ 62% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.
Moderate wage spread

Highest-paid sector (Manufacturing, $91,315/yr) pays 3.9× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $23,552/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.
Mixed business scale

Average establishment employs 16 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 strongly Republican

Republican candidate carried this county in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (avg winning share: 74%). 'Strongly' threshold: ≥60% avg.

Dale County was carried by the Republican candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 75.8% in 2024, 72.5% in 2020, 74.1% in 2016.

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 19,103 votes cast

Republican
Democratic

Republican 14,476 75.8%
Democratic 4,484 23.5%
Other / third-party 143 0.7%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Family-majority, English-speaking

Family households are 63% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 5.7% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).

5.7% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, Korean, German or other West Germanic. Veterans account for 14.1% of the adult civilian population (5,071 individuals).

Languages spoken at home

94.3% speak only English at home

Spanish 1,815 3.9%
Korean 179 0.4%
German or other West Germanic 131 0.3%
French, Haitian, or Cajun 100 0.2%
Tagalog 63 0.1%
Chinese 62 0.1%
Vietnamese 58 0.1%
Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 13 0.0%
Arabic 3 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Household composition

Households: 19,727
Family households: 12,408; 62.9% of households
Married couples w/ children: 2,624; 21.1% of families
Single-mother families: 1,948; 15.7% of families
Veterans: 5,071; 14.1% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Religious composition

50.4% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 17,813 36.1%
Black Protestant 2,578 5.2%
Mainline Protestant 2,430 4.9%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,675 3.4%
Catholic 341 0.7%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 89.9%; ±1.2 pp
Uninsured: 10.1%; ±1.2 pp; 23rd of 67
With a disability: 20.0%; ±1.3 pp; 31st of 67
Bachelor's or higher: 20.4%; ±1.6 pp; −8.0 pp vs AL · 23rd of 67
Uninsured, under 65 (2024): 11.3%; 90% interval 10.1%–12.5% · 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: 33rd Judicial Circuit Court
Judges: 2 (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: Geneva, Ozark

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Court reference

Traffic safety context

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

Traffic fatalities: 6; 15.78 per 100k adults (18+)
Fatal crashes: 6

NHTSA FARS 2024

Civil docket composition

Filings in this county, 2025

Account collection was the largest civil litigation category, at 23.9% of 255 filings. Motor-vehicle negligence ranked #4 at 11.8%.

Account collection 61 23.9%
Contract, ejectment and seizure 46 18.0%
Other civil 41 16.1%
Motor-vehicle negligence 30 11.8%
Equity, non-damage 20 7.8%
Negligence, general 14 5.5%

A further 13 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	74.1%	23.7%
2020	72.5%	26.2%
2024	75.8%	23.5%