Jury Pool Profile

Pitkin County, Colorado

Democratic +44.2 (2024)

County seat: Aspen
Judicial district: 9th Judicial District Court
Population (July 2025 estimate): 16,625; Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 16,985.

At a glance

Pitkin County is a 16,625-person venue. The county population is 84% White (Census race-alone categories). 11% identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race. Median household income is $119,658, $22,787 above the CO state median of $96,871; 62.8% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 15.9% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, most commonly Spanish, then other Indo-European languages (1.6%), a group the Census does not break out. The largest employment sector is Leisure & hospitality, at 39.9% of covered employment, average pay $65,172/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.5%, below the 3.87% state average. The county carried the Democratic presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking 70% to 75% of the vote across the three.

Population: 16,985
Median household income: $102,645
Unemployment: 3.5%

Who sits on a jury?

Predominantly White

≥70% White (race-alone) and <20% Black. This county: 84% / 1%.

Pitkin County has a population of 16,985, with a median age of 47.2. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 83.6%; Black residents 0.6%. Independently, 11.4% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The median household earns $119,658; 62.8% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 6.9% live below the federal poverty line.

Race & ethnicity

White (non-Hispanic) 13,631 80.3%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,935 11.4%
Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 66 0.4%
Asian (non-Hispanic) 341 2.0%
Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 910 5.4%
American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 52 0.3%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
Some other race (non-Hispanic) 50 0.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Age distribution

Median age 47.2

Under 18 2,484 14.6%
18–24 699 4.1%
25–44 4,953 29.2%
45–64 4,974 29.3%
65 and over 3,875 22.8%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Income & poverty

Median household income: $119,658; 90% interval $105,660–$133,656; +$22,787 vs CO · 4th of 64
Below poverty line: 6.9%; 90% interval 5.3%–8.5%; −2.7 pp vs CO · 60th of 64

U.S. Census SAIPE 2024

Economic context

Hospitality anchored

Largest sector in BLS QCEW, even counting every withheld job toward the other sectors: Leisure & hospitality, about 40% of covered jobs.

Leisure & hospitality is the largest employment sector at 39.9% of covered employment, followed by Trade, transportation & utilities at 11.6%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.5%, below the Colorado state average.

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.5%; −0.37 pp vs. state
County GDP: $3.8B; 0.69% of state
Avg. annual pay: $82,509
Establishments: 2,046

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Leisure & hospitality 7,079 39.9%
Trade, transportation & utilities 2,063 11.6%
Professional & business services 1,982 11.2%
Public administration 1,633 9.2%
Education & health services 1,633 9.2%
Financial activities 1,486 8.4%
Other services 866 4.9%
Construction 758 4.3%

The sectors listed cover 98.6% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

BLS QCEW 2025

Housing

Home ownership: 62.8%; −3.4 pp vs CO · 59th of 64
Median gross rent: $2,004; +$243 vs CO · 5th of 64
Owner-occupied: 5,790
Renter-occupied: 3,425

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Local economy in 3 reads

Moderately concentrated

Top three sectors employ 63% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.
Compressed wage spread

Highest-paid sector pays only 1.9× the lowest ($122,020 vs $65,172/yr), a relatively flat local wage distribution.
Small-business scale

Average establishment employs only 8.7 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

1 of the 4 employers listed here is in leisure & hospitality, accounting for 5,532 employees on this list. So leisure & hospitality is the largest sector by employment here, but the county's biggest named employers sit mostly 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	Aspen Skiing Company	Leisure & hospitality	5,532
2	Aspen Valley Hospital	Education & health services	525
3	City of Aspen	Public administration	524
4	Pitkin County	Public administration	410

Showing 4 of 10 employers on the published list(8,825 employees total).

Source: Pitkin County, Colorado, 2025 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, 'Principal Employers, Current Year and Ten Years Ago' schedule, with counts from the employers themselves. Each count is the employer's largest number of full-time equivalents at any point in the year, so these are peak-season figures. (2025)

Political composition

Consistently strongly Democratic

Democratic candidate carried this county in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (avg winning share: 72%). 'Strongly' threshold: ≥60% avg.

Pitkin County was carried by the Democratic candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 71.0% in 2024, 75.2% in 2020, 69.7% in 2016.

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 11,167 votes cast

Republican
Democratic

Democratic 7,932 71.0%
Republican 2,992 26.8%
Other / third-party 243 2.2%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Singles/nonfamily-majority, linguistically diverse

Family households are 47% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 15.9% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).

15.9% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, French, Haitian, or Cajun, Chinese. Veterans account for 4.6% of the adult civilian population (671 individuals).

Languages spoken at home

84.1% speak only English at home

Spanish 1,556 9.4%
French, Haitian, or Cajun 279 1.7%
Chinese 187 1.1%
Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 114 0.7%
German or other West Germanic 51 0.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Household composition

Households: 9,215
Family households: 4,307; 46.7% of households
Married couples w/ children: 1,339; 31.1% of families
Single-mother families: 282; 6.5% of families
Veterans: 671; 4.6% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Religious composition

29.5% overall adherence rate

Catholic 1,990 11.5%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,430 8.2%
Evangelical Protestant 1,235 7.1%
Mainline Protestant 474 2.7%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 95.0%; ±2 pp
Uninsured: 5.0%; ±2 pp; 59th of 64
With a disability: 9.0%; ±2 pp; 55th of 64
Bachelor's or higher: 62.8%; ±5.4 pp; +17.1 pp vs CO · 4th of 64
Uninsured, under 65 (2024): 7.7%; 90% interval 6.8%–8.6% · 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: 9th Judicial District Court
Judges: 4 (District Court judges per district (general civil + criminal jurisdiction); vintage 2026 coloradojudicial.gov; reflects Jan 7, 2025 23rd JD reorganization)
Court seats: Aspen, Glenwood Springs, Meeker

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Pitkin totals, 2024 — the per-100k rate is based on 1 recorded death, too few to be statistically reliable

Traffic fatalities: 1; 6.9 per 100k adults (18+)
Fatal crashes: 1

NHTSA FARS 2024