Jury Pool Profile
Ventura County, California
Democratic +15 (2024)
- Population
- 838,259
- Median household income
- $107,327
- Unemployment
- 4.8%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 491,174 58.6%
- Black or African American alone 15,452 1.8%
- Asian alone 60,564 7.2%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 12,274 1.5%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 1,568 0.2%
- Some other race alone 82,386 9.8%
- Two or more races 174,841 20.9%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 367,516 43.8%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 39.4
- Under 18 185,795 22.2%
- 18–24 74,268 8.9%
- 25–44 218,274 26.0%
- 45–64 218,607 26.1%
- 65 and over 141,315 16.9%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 4.8%
- -0.62 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $69.6B
- 1.72% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $70,487
- Establishments
- 31,435
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 81,519 24.2%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 56,737 16.9%
- Professional & business services 44,194 13.1%
- Leisure & hospitality 38,940 11.6%
- Manufacturing 27,385 8.1%
- Natural resources & mining 25,606 7.6%
- Construction 18,092 5.4%
- Public administration 16,056 4.8%
- Financial activities 15,077 4.5%
- Other services 9,031 2.7%
- Information 3,625 1.1%
- Unclassified 11 0.0%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 64.2%
- Median gross rent
- $2,248
- Owner-occupied
- 178,388
- Renter-occupied
- 99,657
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 387,595 votes cast
- Democratic 217,424 56.1%
- Republican 158,901 41.0%
- Other / third-party 11,270 2.9%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
61.6% speak only English at home
- Spanish 239,575 30.2%
- Other Indo-European 15,112 1.9%
- Tagalog 12,106 1.5%
- Other Asian/Pacific 7,840 1.0%
- Chinese 7,730 1.0%
- Other 5,838 0.7%
- German 3,480 0.4%
- Vietnamese 3,298 0.4%
- French (incl. Cajun) 2,554 0.3%
- Korean 2,452 0.3%
- Slavic languages 2,435 0.3%
- Arabic 2,336 0.3%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 278,045
- Family households
- 199,984
- 71.9% of households
- Married w/ children
- 150,281
- Single-mother households
- 14,436
- Veterans
- 33,552
- 5.2% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
51.1% overall adherence rate
- Catholic 249,661 29.6%
- Evangelical Protestant 80,514 9.5%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 74,364 8.8%
- Mainline Protestant 13,775 1.6%
- Black Protestant 10,260 1.2%
- Orthodox 2,240 0.3%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 92.1%
- With a disability
- 11.5%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 35.7%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- Ventura County Superior Court
- Judges
- 32 (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
- Ventura
Traffic safety context
California statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 72
- 11.04 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 65
NHTSA FARS 2023