Jury Pool Profile

Etowah County, Alabama

Republican +56 (2024)

Population: 103,208
Median household income: $53,070
Unemployment: 3.1%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 79,768 77.3%
Black or African American alone 15,529 15.0%
Asian alone 708 0.7%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 277 0.3%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 44 0.0%
Some other race alone 2,749 2.7%
Two or more races 4,133 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5,134 5.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 41.8

Under 18 22,487 21.8%
18–24 8,151 7.9%
25–44 24,727 24.0%
45–64 27,724 26.9%
65 and over 20,119 19.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.1%; +0.27 pp vs. state
County GDP: $4.0B; 1.24% of state
Avg. annual pay: $46,564
Establishments: 2,439

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 10,036 30.4%
Trade, transportation & utilities 7,073 21.4%
Manufacturing 4,344 13.2%
Leisure & hospitality 3,938 11.9%
Professional & business services 2,516 7.6%
Public administration 1,838 5.6%
Financial activities 1,187 3.6%
Construction 1,078 3.3%
Other services 737 2.2%
Information 153 0.5%
Natural resources & mining 38 0.1%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 73.8%
Median gross rent: $807
Owner-occupied: 28,881
Renter-occupied: 10,279

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 46,023 votes cast

Republican 35,653 77.5%
Democratic 10,027 21.8%
Other / third-party 343 0.7%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

95.3% speak only English at home

Spanish 3,462 3.6%
French (incl. Cajun) 174 0.2%
Other Indo-European 162 0.2%
Tagalog 150 0.2%
Arabic 148 0.2%
Vietnamese 126 0.1%
Slavic languages 98 0.1%
German 84 0.1%
Chinese 54 0.1%
Other 54 0.1%
Other Asian/Pacific 34 0.0%
Korean 1 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 39,160
Family households: 25,692; 65.6% of households
Married w/ children: 18,290
Single-mother households: 2,756
Veterans: 5,323; 6.6% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

81.1% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 66,739 64.5%
Black Protestant 5,599 5.4%
Catholic 5,020 4.9%
Mainline Protestant 4,213 4.1%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,279 2.2%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 87.8%
With a disability: 17.8%
Bachelor's or higher: 17.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 16th Judicial Circuit Court
Judges: 4 (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: Gadsden

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Alabama statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 20; 24.78 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 14

NHTSA FARS 2023