Jury Pool Profile

Arapahoe County, Colorado

Democratic +20 (2024)

Population: 655,709
Median household income: $97,215
Unemployment: 4.2%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 405,690 61.9%
Black or African American alone 71,075 10.8%
Asian alone 39,309 6.0%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 6,426 1.0%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 1,835 0.3%
Some other race alone 45,291 6.9%
Two or more races 86,083 13.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 138,906 21.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 37.3

Under 18 150,051 22.9%
18–24 53,111 8.1%
25–44 199,961 30.5%
45–64 160,515 24.5%
65 and over 92,071 14.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.2%; +0.2 pp vs. state
County GDP: $66.7B; 11.96% of state
Avg. annual pay: $85,628
Establishments: 26,450

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 75,539 22.2%
Professional & business services 72,311 21.3%
Trade, transportation & utilities 54,640 16.1%
Leisure & hospitality 33,295 9.8%
Financial activities 29,077 8.6%
Construction 24,904 7.3%
Information 15,788 4.6%
Public administration 15,361 4.5%
Other services 9,921 2.9%
Manufacturing 8,493 2.5%
Natural resources & mining 608 0.2%
Unclassified 57 0.0%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 65.1%
Median gross rent: $1,812
Owner-occupied: 165,343
Renter-occupied: 88,547

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Largest employers

Principal employers by headcount

#	Employer	Sector	Employees
1	Cherry Creek School District No. 5	Public Education	7,966*
2	Comcast	Broadband & Digital Communications	5,590*
3	HealthONE (Swedish Medical Center, Medical Center of Aurora & Spalding Rehabilitation)	Healthcare & Wellness	3,970*
4	Charter Communications	Broadband & Digital Communications	3,800*
5	AdventHealth Littleton (formerly Littleton Adventist Hospital; figure incl. now-dissolved Centura Health corporate HQ, 2021)	Healthcare & Wellness	2,810*
6	UnitedHealthcare	Financial Services / Insurance	2,770*
7	Empower (Empower Retirement)	Financial Services	2,680*
8	Raytheon (RTX)	Aerospace & Defense	2,510*
9	Lumen Technologies (formerly CenturyLink)	Broadband & Digital Communications	2,280*
10	Kaiser Permanente	Healthcare & Wellness	2,240*
11	Arrow Electronics	Electronics Wholesale	1,780*

* Headcount is an estimate.

Source: Metro Denver Economic Development Corporation (Metro Denver EDC) — "Largest Employers 2021-2022 (Metro Denver and Northern Colorado Counties)," prepared by Development Research Partners, revised June 2021. Arapahoe County "Private Non-Retail" section. Supplemented with Cherry Creek School District staff count from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data, FY2022-23, because the EDC list excludes public-sector employers. (2021)

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 325,451 votes cast

Democratic 190,725 58.6%
Republican 125,311 38.5%
Other / third-party 9,415 2.9%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

76.7% speak only English at home

Spanish 77,810 12.6%
Other 14,610 2.4%
Other Indo-European 10,662 1.7%
Other Asian/Pacific 7,277 1.2%
Slavic languages 7,020 1.1%
Arabic 6,096 1.0%
Chinese 4,508 0.7%
Vietnamese 4,312 0.7%
Korean 4,307 0.7%
French (incl. Cajun) 3,542 0.6%
German 1,895 0.3%
Tagalog 1,778 0.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 253,890
Family households: 163,166; 64.3% of households
Married w/ children: 123,332
Single-mother households: 14,224
Veterans: 35,168; 7% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

34.7% overall adherence rate

Catholic 87,657 13.4%
Evangelical Protestant 74,116 11.3%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 35,471 5.4%
Mainline Protestant 20,465 3.1%
Orthodox 7,220 1.1%
Black Protestant 2,108 0.3%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 91.0%
With a disability: 10.8%
Bachelor's or higher: 45.7%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 18th Judicial District Court
Judges: 8 (District Court judges per district (general civil + criminal jurisdiction); vintage 2026 coloradojudicial.gov; reflects Jan 7, 2025 23rd JD reorganization)
Court seats: Littleton

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Colorado statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 70; 13.84 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 63

NHTSA FARS 2023