Jury Pool Profile

Los Angeles County, California

Democratic +33 (2024)

Population: 9,848,406
Median household income: $87,760
Unemployment: 5.6%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 3,489,206 35.4%
Black or African American alone 769,139 7.8%
Asian alone 1,480,146 15.0%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 125,310 1.3%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 21,691 0.2%
Some other race alone 2,320,096 23.6%
Two or more races 1,642,818 16.7%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4,753,369 48.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 37.9

Under 18 2,057,536 20.9%
18–24 878,901 8.9%
25–44 2,944,830 29.9%
45–64 2,518,568 25.6%
65 and over 1,448,571 14.7%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 5.6%; +0.11 pp vs. state
County GDP: $1003.0B; 24.78% of state
Avg. annual pay: $83,554
Establishments: 572,385

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 1,281,863 28.3%
Trade, transportation & utilities 853,391 18.9%
Professional & business services 642,024 14.2%
Leisure & hospitality 547,136 12.1%
Manufacturing 311,242 6.9%
Financial activities 207,141 4.6%
Information 190,868 4.2%
Public administration 176,559 3.9%
Other services 155,913 3.4%
Construction 152,869 3.4%
Natural resources & mining 6,322 0.1%
Unclassified 358 0.0%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 46.1%
Median gross rent: $1,893
Owner-occupied: 1,562,207
Renter-occupied: 1,828,047

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 3,728,427 votes cast

Democratic 2,417,109 64.8%
Republican 1,189,862 31.9%
Other / third-party 121,456 3.3%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

44.9% speak only English at home

Spanish 3,518,417 37.7%
Chinese 382,262 4.1%
Other Indo-European 380,381 4.1%
Tagalog 220,688 2.4%
Korean 158,877 1.7%
Other Asian/Pacific 155,326 1.7%
Vietnamese 81,861 0.9%
Slavic languages 71,585 0.8%
Other 64,511 0.7%
Arabic 45,500 0.5%
French (incl. Cajun) 40,806 0.4%
German 25,024 0.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 3,390,254
Family households: 2,221,256; 65.5% of households
Married w/ children: 1,478,495
Single-mother households: 201,606
Veterans: 220,722; 2.8% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

51.0% overall adherence rate

Catholic 3,148,829 31.4%
Evangelical Protestant 862,872 8.6%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 624,539 6.2%
Black Protestant 222,004 2.2%
Mainline Protestant 154,278 1.5%
Orthodox 99,094 1.0%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 91.3%
With a disability: 10.9%
Bachelor's or higher: 35.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: Los Angeles County Superior Court
Judges: 482 (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: Los Angeles

Court reference

Traffic safety context

California statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 840; 10.78 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 777

NHTSA FARS 2023