Jury Pool Profile

Sonoma County, California

Democratic +46 (2024)

Population: 485,642
Median household income: $102,840
Unemployment: 4.4%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 313,481 64.5%
Black or African American alone 7,546 1.6%
Asian alone 21,539 4.4%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 6,186 1.3%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 1,793 0.4%
Some other race alone 68,565 14.1%
Two or more races 66,532 13.7%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 142,986 29.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 42.7

Under 18 93,938 19.3%
18–24 38,003 7.8%
25–44 123,918 25.5%
45–64 127,978 26.4%
65 and over 101,805 21.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.4%; -1.05 pp vs. state
County GDP: $39.4B; 0.97% of state
Avg. annual pay: $71,422
Establishments: 21,652

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 50,176 24.3%
Trade, transportation & utilities 35,094 17.0%
Leisure & hospitality 28,407 13.7%
Professional & business services 24,049 11.6%
Manufacturing 21,072 10.2%
Construction 16,442 7.9%
Public administration 7,907 3.8%
Other services 7,768 3.8%
Financial activities 6,708 3.2%
Natural resources & mining 6,346 3.1%
Information 2,869 1.4%
Unclassified 10 0.0%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 62.2%
Median gross rent: $2,093
Owner-occupied: 118,489
Renter-occupied: 72,009

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 251,426 votes cast

Democratic 179,600 71.4%
Republican 63,426 25.2%
Other / third-party 8,400 3.3%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

73.2% speak only English at home

Spanish 96,014 20.7%
Other Indo-European 6,367 1.4%
Other Asian/Pacific 3,970 0.9%
Tagalog 3,038 0.7%
Chinese 2,876 0.6%
German 2,527 0.5%
Vietnamese 2,357 0.5%
French (incl. Cajun) 2,193 0.5%
Other 1,745 0.4%
Slavic languages 1,406 0.3%
Arabic 1,038 0.2%
Korean 600 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 190,498
Family households: 120,314; 63.2% of households
Married w/ children: 91,066
Single-mother households: 9,580
Veterans: 20,384; 5.2% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

36.4% overall adherence rate

Catholic 114,837 23.5%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 27,548 5.6%
Evangelical Protestant 26,151 5.3%
Mainline Protestant 7,530 1.5%
Orthodox 1,821 0.4%
Black Protestant 160 0.0%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 94.6%
With a disability: 12.1%
Bachelor's or higher: 37.8%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: Sonoma County Superior Court
Judges: 22 (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: Santa Rosa

Court reference

Traffic safety context

California statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 29; 7.4 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 28

NHTSA FARS 2023