Jury Pool Profile

Fairfield County, Connecticut

Population: 621,232
Median household income: $124,553
Unemployment: 3.7%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 398,099 64.1%
Black or African American alone 64,185 10.3%
Asian alone 33,292 5.4%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 1,850 0.3%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 297 0.0%
Some other race alone 52,162 8.4%
Two or more races 71,347 11.5%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 123,865 19.9%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 41.5

Under 18 136,371 22.0%
18–24 51,335 8.3%
25–44 151,567 24.4%
45–64 176,245 28.4%
65 and over 105,714 17.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.7%; -0.48 pp vs. state

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

Housing

Home ownership: 66.2%
Median gross rent: $2,060
Owner-occupied: 153,760
Renter-occupied: 78,519

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2020 presidential · 472,990 votes cast

Democratic 297,505 62.9%
Republican 169,039 35.7%
Other / third-party 6,446 1.4%

Election results 2020

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

70.7% speak only English at home

Spanish 91,487 15.6%
Other Indo-European 34,232 5.8%
French (incl. Cajun) 11,420 1.9%
Slavic languages 10,396 1.8%
Chinese 7,573 1.3%
Other Asian/Pacific 5,454 0.9%
Other 3,241 0.6%
German 3,143 0.5%
Tagalog 1,825 0.3%
Arabic 1,638 0.3%
Korean 1,235 0.2%
Vietnamese 691 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 232,279
Family households: 160,796; 69.2% of households
Married w/ children: 126,298
Single-mother households: 11,682
Veterans: 16,370; 3.4% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

56.4% overall adherence rate

Catholic 337,106 35.2%
Evangelical Protestant 77,963 8.1%
Mainline Protestant 63,403 6.6%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 38,691 4.0%
Black Protestant 13,186 1.4%
Orthodox 10,063 1.1%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 92.5%
With a disability: 9.4%
Bachelor's or higher: 55.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Court infrastructure

Trial court: Fairfield Judicial District Superior Court
Judges: 18 (Superior Court judges per Judicial District (general civil + criminal jurisdiction). Allocations are administrative (not statutory) and may shift across JDs at the discretion of the Chief Court Administrator. Vintage 2026 jud.ct.gov judge-locator pages. Per-county counts reflect the PRIMARY JD only; multi-JD counties (Fairfield, Hartford, New Haven) house additional Superior Court benches in their secondary JDs that are not double-counted in the per-county figure.)
Court seats: Bridgeport

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Connecticut statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 63
Fatal crashes: 58

NHTSA FARS 2023