Jury Pool Profile

Shasta County, California

Republican +36.5 (2024)

County seat: Redding
Judicial district: Shasta County Superior Court
Population (July 2025 estimate): 181,648; Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 181,436.

At a glance

Shasta County is a 181,648-person venue. The county population is 78% White (Census race-alone categories). 12% identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race. Median household income is $70,620, $29,510 below the CA state median of $100,130; 23.8% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 7.8% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, most commonly Spanish and Chinese. The largest employment sector is Education & health services, at 33.2% of covered employment, average pay $59,191/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 5.33%, below the 5.36% state average. The county carried the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking 65% to 67% of the vote across the three.

Population: 181,436
Median household income: $72,636
Unemployment: 5.3%

Who sits on a jury?

Predominantly White

≥70% White (race-alone) and <20% Black. This county: 78% / 1%.

Shasta County has a population of 181,436, with a median age of 41.7. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 78.2%; Black residents 0.9%. Independently, 11.8% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The median household earns $70,620; 23.8% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 14.6% live below the federal poverty line.

Race & ethnicity

White (non-Hispanic) 136,633 75.3%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 21,346 11.8%
Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 1,502 0.8%
Asian (non-Hispanic) 6,169 3.4%
Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 12,187 6.7%
American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 2,361 1.3%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 292 0.2%
Some other race (non-Hispanic) 946 0.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Age distribution

Median age 41.7

Under 18 39,148 21.6%
18–24 13,391 7.4%
25–44 45,738 25.2%
45–64 44,150 24.3%
65 and over 39,009 21.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Income & poverty

Median household income: $70,620; 90% interval $67,814–$73,426; −$29,510 vs CA · 41st of 58
Below poverty line: 14.6%; 90% interval 12.5%–16.7%; +2.8 pp vs CA · 21st of 58

U.S. Census SAIPE 2024

Economic context

Healthcare & education anchored

Largest sector in BLS QCEW, even counting every withheld job toward the other sectors: Education & health services, about 33% of covered jobs.

Education & health services is the largest employment sector at 33.2% of covered employment, followed by Trade, transportation & utilities at 18.2%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 5.33%, below the California state average.

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 5.3%; −0.03 pp vs. state
County GDP: $11.9B; 0.29% of state
Avg. annual pay: $61,218
Establishments: 8,580

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 23,766 33.2%
Trade, transportation & utilities 13,053 18.2%
Leisure & hospitality 7,522 10.5%
Professional & business services 6,728 9.4%
Public administration 5,842 8.2%
Construction 4,250 5.9%
Financial activities 3,226 4.5%
Other services 2,524 3.5%
Information 30 0.0%

The sectors listed cover 93.4% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

BLS QCEW 2025

Housing

Home ownership: 65.6%; +9.7 pp vs CA · 23rd of 58
Median gross rent: $1,317; −$719 vs CA · 39th of 58
Owner-occupied: 46,694
Renter-occupied: 24,538

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 (Public administration, $91,861/yr) pays 2.9× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $31,834/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.
Small-business scale

Average establishment employs only 8.4 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

3 of the top 5 employers on this list (4 of the listed 10) are in education & health services, accounting for 4,803 employees on this list. This concentrates 'big institutional employer' juror experience in one sector; confirm employer ties before any framing that touches it.

#	Employer	Sector	Employees
1	Mercy Medical Center	Hospitals	2,200
2	Shasta County	Government Offices	2,113
3	City of Redding	Government Offices	1,248
4	Shasta Community College	Education	1,075
5	Shasta Regional Medical Center	Hospitals	946
6	Redding Rancheria/Win River	Casinos	862
7	Walmart	Department Stores	715
8	CA Transportation Department	Government Offices	622
9	Bethel Church	Churches	613
10	Shasta Union High School District	Education	582

Source: County of Shasta, California, Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, 'Principal Employers, Current Year and Nine Years Ago' schedule. The county drew names from the State Employment Development Department's major-employers list and got each count by contacting the employer directly, so each count is the employer's own figure. (2025)

Political composition

Consistently strongly Republican

Republican candidate carried this county in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (avg winning share: 66%). 'Strongly' threshold: ≥60% avg.

Shasta County was carried by the Republican candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 67.0% in 2024, 65.4% in 2020, 65.6% in 2016.

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 88,900 votes cast

Republican
Democratic

Republican 59,539 67.0%
Democratic 27,130 30.5%
Other / third-party 2,231 2.5%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Family-majority, English-speaking

Family households are 62% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 7.8% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).

7.8% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, Chinese, German or other West Germanic. Veterans account for 8.4% of the adult civilian population (12,002 individuals).

Languages spoken at home

92.2% speak only English at home

Spanish 6,921 4.0%
Chinese 682 0.4%
German or other West Germanic 577 0.3%
Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 521 0.3%
Tagalog 490 0.3%
Vietnamese 302 0.2%
Arabic 296 0.2%
French, Haitian, or Cajun 269 0.2%
Korean 228 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Household composition

Households: 71,232
Family households: 44,300; 62.2% of households
Married couples w/ children: 10,897; 24.6% of families
Single-mother families: 3,906; 8.8% of families
Veterans: 12,002; 8.4% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Religious composition

38.5% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 44,484 24.4%
Catholic 12,939 7.1%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 10,515 5.8%
Mainline Protestant 1,863 1.0%
Black Protestant 252 0.1%
Orthodox 110 0.1%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 93.5%; ±0.6 pp
Uninsured: 6.5%; ±0.6 pp; 23rd of 58
With a disability: 18.1%; ±0.8 pp; 9th of 58
Bachelor's or higher: 23.8%; ±1.1 pp; −13.3 pp vs CA · 37th of 58
Uninsured, under 65 (2024): 6.0%; 90% interval 5.4%–6.6% · 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: Shasta County Superior Court
Judges: 15 (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: Redding

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Shasta totals, 2024

Traffic fatalities: 33; 23.19 per 100k adults (18+)
Fatal crashes: 30

NHTSA FARS 2024