Jury Pool Profile

Sacramento County, California

Democratic +19.7 (2024)

County seat: Sacramento
Judicial district: Sacramento County Superior Court
Population (July 2025 estimate): 1,618,460; Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 1,594,006.

At a glance

Sacramento County is a 1,618,460-person venue. The county population is 44% White and 9% Black (Census race-alone categories). 24% identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race. Median household income is $93,331, $6,799 below the CA state median of $100,130; 34.1% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 33.7% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, most commonly Spanish, then other Indo-European languages (5.6%), a group the Census does not break out. The largest employment sector is Education & health services, at 27.4% of covered employment, average pay $75,162/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 4.95%, below the 5.36% state average. The county carried the Democratic presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking 58% to 61% of the vote across the three.

Population: 1,594,006
Median household income: $92,175
Unemployment: 5.0%

Who sits on a jury?

Majority-minority

<50% in any single race-alone group. White here: 44%; Black: 9%.

Sacramento County has a population of 1,594,006, with a median age of 37.5. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 44.5%; Black residents 9.4%. Independently, 24.2% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The median household earns $93,331; 34.1% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 12.0% live below the federal poverty line.

Race & ethnicity

White (non-Hispanic) 646,578 40.6%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 385,590 24.2%
Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 143,271 9.0%
Asian (non-Hispanic) 279,817 17.6%
Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 107,127 6.7%
American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 3,912 0.2%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 16,929 1.1%
Some other race (non-Hispanic) 10,782 0.7%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Age distribution

Median age 37.5

Under 18 364,525 22.9%
18–24 132,077 8.3%
25–44 471,745 29.6%
45–64 382,289 24.0%
65 and over 243,370 15.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Income & poverty

Median household income: $93,331; 90% interval $90,764–$95,898; −$6,799 vs CA · 20th of 58
Below poverty line: 12.0%; 90% interval 11.2%–12.8%; +0.2 pp vs CA · 36th of 58

U.S. Census SAIPE 2024

Economic context

Healthcare & education anchored

Largest sector in BLS QCEW: Education & health services, about 27% of covered jobs.

Education & health services is the largest employment sector at 27.4% of covered employment, followed by Public administration at 17.4%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 4.95%, below the California state average.

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 5.0%; −0.41 pp vs. state
County GDP: $135.5B; 3.35% of state
Avg. annual pay: $82,003
Establishments: 74,825

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 200,698 27.4%
Public administration 127,327 17.4%
Trade, transportation & utilities 111,197 15.2%
Professional & business services 95,350 13.0%
Leisure & hospitality 68,605 9.4%
Construction 45,075 6.1%
Financial activities 28,533 3.9%
Other services 24,303 3.3%
Manufacturing 22,293 3.0%
Information 6,289 0.9%
Natural resources & mining 3,297 0.4%
Unclassified 92 0.0%

BLS QCEW 2025

Housing

Home ownership: 59.0%; +3.1 pp vs CA · 41st of 58
Median gross rent: $1,790; −$246 vs CA · 23rd of 58
Owner-occupied: 337,066
Renter-occupied: 233,991

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Local economy in 3 reads

Moderately concentrated

Top three sectors employ 60% 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 (Public administration, $117,768/yr) pays 3.4× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $34,818/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.
Small-business scale

Average establishment employs only 9.8 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

BLS QCEW 2025

Largest employers

Principal employers by headcount

2 of the top 5 employers on this list (2 of the listed 6) are in education & health services, accounting for 22,753 employees on this list. So education & health services is the largest sector by employment here, but most of the county's five biggest named employers sit outside it. A panelist who works somewhere you recognize is probably not working where most of this county works; ask where they work before assuming either pattern fits them.

#	Employer	Sector	Employees
1	State of California	State Government	118,130
2	UC Davis Health	Hospital and academic medical center (University of California)	16,617
3	Sacramento County	County Government	13,653
4	Kaiser Permanente	Health Care	12,624
5	U.S. Government	Federal Government	10,699
6	Sutter Health	Health Care	10,129

Showing 6 of 10 employers on the published list(204,733 employees total).

Source: Sacramento Regional Transit District, Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, 'Principal Employers, Current Year and Nine Years Ago' schedule, reprinting the Sacramento Business Journal's list of the largest employers in Sacramento County. Public employers are included. (2025)

Political composition

Consistently Democratic

Democratic candidate carried this county in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (avg winning share: 59%). 'Strongly' threshold: ≥60% avg.

Sacramento County was carried by the Democratic candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 58.1% in 2024, 61.4% in 2020, 58.6% in 2016.

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 656,626 votes cast

Republican
Democratic

Democratic 381,564 58.1%
Republican 252,140 38.4%
Other / third-party 22,922 3.5%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Family-majority, linguistically diverse

Family households are 66% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 33.7% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).

33.7% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, Russian, Polish, or other Slavic, Chinese. Veterans account for 5.5% of the adult civilian population (67,205 individuals).

Languages spoken at home

66.3% speak only English at home

Spanish 197,541 13.2%
Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 48,237 3.2%
Chinese 35,504 2.4%
Tagalog 28,330 1.9%
Vietnamese 27,086 1.8%
Arabic 9,329 0.6%
Korean 4,415 0.3%
German or other West Germanic 4,388 0.3%
French, Haitian, or Cajun 2,562 0.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Household composition

Households: 571,057
Family households: 376,403; 65.9% of households
Married couples w/ children: 115,011; 30.6% of families
Single-mother families: 36,342; 9.7% of families
Veterans: 67,205; 5.5% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Religious composition

39.2% overall adherence rate

Catholic 281,110 17.7%
Evangelical Protestant 159,125 10.0%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 125,544 7.9%
Black Protestant 24,931 1.6%
Mainline Protestant 24,699 1.6%
Orthodox 6,626 0.4%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 95.1%; ±0.2 pp
Uninsured: 4.9%; ±0.2 pp; 46th of 58
With a disability: 13.1%; ±0.3 pp; 28th of 58
Bachelor's or higher: 34.1%; −3.0 pp vs CA · 21st of 58
Uninsured, under 65 (2024): 5.5%; 90% interval 5.1%–5.9% · 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: Sacramento County Superior Court
Judges: 78 (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: Sacramento

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Sacramento totals, 2024

Traffic fatalities: 156; 12.69 per 100k adults (18+)
Fatal crashes: 154

NHTSA FARS 2024