Jury Pool Profile

Routt County, Colorado

Democratic +27.8 (2024)

County seat: Steamboat Springs
Judicial district: 14th Judicial District Court
Population (July 2025 estimate): 25,329; Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 25,084.

At a glance

Routt County is a 25,329-person venue. The county population is 81% White (Census race-alone categories). Median household income is $112,777, $15,906 above the CO state median of $96,871; 54.2% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 7.3% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, most commonly Spanish. The largest employment sector is Leisure & hospitality, at 25.1% of covered employment, average pay $40,098/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.32%, below the 3.87% state average. The county carried the Democratic presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking 54% to 63% of the vote across the three.

Population: 25,084
Median household income: $106,489
Unemployment: 3.3%

Who sits on a jury?

Predominantly White

≥70% White (race-alone) and <20% Black. This county: 81% / 0%.

Routt County has a population of 25,084, with a median age of 43.4. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 81.2%; Black residents 0.3%. Independently, 9.0% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The median household earns $112,777; 54.2% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 6.6% live below the federal poverty line.

Race & ethnicity

White (non-Hispanic) 20,097 80.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2,267 9.0%
Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 48 0.2%
Asian (non-Hispanic) 150 0.6%
Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 2,258 9.0%
American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 78 0.3%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 33 0.1%
Some other race (non-Hispanic) 153 0.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Age distribution

Median age 43.4

Under 18 4,312 17.2%
18–24 1,732 6.9%
25–44 7,135 28.4%
45–64 7,268 29.0%
65 and over 4,637 18.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Income & poverty

Median household income: $112,777; 90% interval $99,967–$125,587; +$15,906 vs CO · 6th of 64
Below poverty line: 6.6%; 90% interval 5.1%–8.1%; −3.0 pp vs CO · 61st of 64

U.S. Census SAIPE 2024

Economic context

Hospitality anchored

Largest sector in BLS QCEW: Leisure & hospitality, about 25% of covered jobs.

Leisure & hospitality is the largest employment sector at 25.1% of covered employment, followed by Education & health services at 18.1%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.32%, below the Colorado state average.

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.3%; −0.55 pp vs. state
County GDP: $3.0B; 0.53% of state
Avg. annual pay: $64,314
Establishments: 2,102

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Leisure & hospitality 4,104 25.1%
Education & health services 2,957 18.1%
Trade, transportation & utilities 2,562 15.7%
Professional & business services 1,706 10.5%
Construction 1,554 9.5%
Financial activities 1,089 6.7%
Public administration 1,042 6.4%
Other services 559 3.4%
Natural resources & mining 372 2.3%
Manufacturing 201 1.2%
Information 174 1.1%
Unclassified 3 0.0%

BLS QCEW 2025

Housing

Home ownership: 76.0%; +9.8 pp vs CO · 17th of 64
Median gross rent: $1,917; +$156 vs CO · 8th of 64
Owner-occupied: 8,573
Renter-occupied: 2,708

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Local economy in 3 reads

Moderately concentrated

Top three sectors employ 59% 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 (Financial activities, $105,880/yr) pays 2.6× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $40,098/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.
Small-business scale

Average establishment employs only 7.8 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 top 5 employers on this list (3 of the listed 7) is in leisure & hospitality, accounting for 2,548 employees on this list. So leisure & hospitality is the largest sector by employment here, but most of the county's five biggest named employers sit 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	Steamboat Ski & Resort Corp.	Ski resort	1,998
2	UCHealth Yampa Valley Medical Center	Hospital	605
3	Steamboat Springs School District RE-2	Public education (K-12 school district)	405
4	City of Steamboat Springs	Local government (city)	377
5	Routt County	Local government (county)	375
6	Resort Group	Resort lodging	300
7	Rex's Family of Restaurants	Restaurants	250

Showing 7 of 10 employers on the published list(4,932 employees total).

Source: City of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the year ended December 31, 2024, 'Principal Employers, Current Year and Nine Years Ago' schedule. Counts are reported by the employers and are annual averages that include seasonal staff. (2024)

Political composition

Consistently Democratic

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

Routt County was carried by the Democratic candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 62.5% in 2024, 62.7% in 2020, 54.4% in 2016.

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 16,335 votes cast

Republican
Democratic

Democratic 10,208 62.5%
Republican 5,676 34.7%
Other / third-party 451 2.8%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Family-majority, English-speaking

Family households are 66% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 7.3% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).

7.3% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, French, Haitian, or Cajun, German or other West Germanic. Veterans account for 5.1% of the adult civilian population (1,066 individuals).

Languages spoken at home

92.7% speak only English at home

Spanish 1,323 5.5%
French, Haitian, or Cajun 122 0.5%
German or other West Germanic 69 0.3%
Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 45 0.2%
Chinese 39 0.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Household composition

Households: 11,281
Family households: 7,472; 66.2% of households
Married couples w/ children: 2,641; 35.3% of families
Single-mother families: 394; 5.3% of families
Veterans: 1,066; 5.1% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Religious composition

31.2% overall adherence rate

Catholic 3,131 12.6%
Evangelical Protestant 3,107 12.5%
Mainline Protestant 853 3.4%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 657 2.6%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 92.4%; ±1.8 pp
Uninsured: 7.6%; ±1.8 pp; 38th of 64
With a disability: 7.4%; ±1.3 pp; 61st of 64
Bachelor's or higher: 54.2%; ±3.5 pp; +8.5 pp vs CO · 11th of 64
Uninsured, under 65 (2024): 8.6%; 90% interval 7.7%–9.5% · 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: 14th 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: Craig, Hot Sulphur Springs, Steamboat Springs

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Routt totals, 2024 — the per-100k rate is based on 4 recorded deaths, too few to be statistically reliable

Traffic fatalities: 4; 19.26 per 100k adults (18+)
Fatal crashes: 4

NHTSA FARS 2024