Jury Pool Profile
Alameda County, California
Democratic +54 (2024)
- Population
- 1,651,949
- Median household income
- $126,240
- Unemployment
- 4.6%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 528,396 32.0%
- Black or African American alone 163,859 9.9%
- Asian alone 532,550 32.2%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 14,764 0.9%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 12,309 0.7%
- Some other race alone 213,185 12.9%
- Two or more races 186,886 11.3%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 385,245 23.3%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 38.7
- Under 18 331,035 20.0%
- 18–24 131,012 7.9%
- 25–44 520,816 31.5%
- 45–64 422,245 25.6%
- 65 and over 246,841 14.9%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 4.6%
- -0.83 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $182.5B
- 4.51% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $98,026
- Establishments
- 73,285
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 198,466 25.1%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 142,522 18.0%
- Professional & business services 132,944 16.8%
- Manufacturing 90,559 11.5%
- Leisure & hospitality 72,590 9.2%
- Construction 47,866 6.1%
- Public administration 31,318 4.0%
- Other services 29,463 3.7%
- Financial activities 25,956 3.3%
- Information 17,783 2.2%
- Natural resources & mining 868 0.1%
- Unclassified 25 0.0%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 54.1%
- Median gross rent
- $2,318
- Owner-occupied
- 320,712
- Renter-occupied
- 272,405
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 669,800 votes cast
- Democratic 499,551 74.6%
- Republican 140,789 21.0%
- Other / third-party 29,460 4.4%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
53.4% speak only English at home
- Spanish 257,247 16.5%
- Chinese 144,547 9.2%
- Other Indo-European 109,374 7.0%
- Other Asian/Pacific 69,042 4.4%
- Tagalog 53,506 3.4%
- Vietnamese 26,690 1.7%
- Other 17,916 1.1%
- Korean 14,166 0.9%
- French (incl. Cajun) 10,578 0.7%
- Slavic languages 10,038 0.6%
- Arabic 9,697 0.6%
- German 5,683 0.4%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 593,117
- Family households
- 388,651
- 65.5% of households
- Married w/ children
- 295,722
- Single-mother households
- 26,789
- Veterans
- 42,158
- 3.2% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
41.0% overall adherence rate
- Catholic 322,607 19.2%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 159,414 9.5%
- Evangelical Protestant 118,834 7.1%
- Black Protestant 43,178 2.6%
- Mainline Protestant 33,200 2.0%
- Orthodox 13,362 0.8%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 95.9%
- With a disability
- 9.9%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 51.5%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- Alameda County Superior Court
- Judges
- 70 (Superior Court judges + commissioners; vintage 2026 courts.ca.gov per-court rosters and Judicial Council Court Statistics Report. Counts for the smallest rural counties (Alpine, Sierra, Mono, Modoc, Trinity, Mariposa, Colusa) are at or near the statutory authorized-judgeship floor per Cal. Gov. Code § 69590 et seq.)
- Court seats
- Oakland
Traffic safety context
California statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 99
- 7.49 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 92
NHTSA FARS 2023