Jury Pool Profile
Hartford County, Connecticut
- Population
- 969,029
- Median household income
- $91,541
- Unemployment
- 4.3%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 637,789 65.8%
- Black or African American alone 120,661 12.5%
- Asian alone 56,889 5.9%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 2,122 0.2%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 622 0.1%
- Some other race alone 64,431 6.6%
- Two or more races 86,515 8.9%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 168,439 17.4%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 40.2
- Under 18 197,922 20.4%
- 18–24 95,256 9.8%
- 25–44 250,189 25.8%
- 45–64 254,155 26.2%
- 65 and over 171,507 17.7%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 4.3%
- +0.16 pp vs. state
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 65.4%
- Median gross rent
- $1,351
- Owner-occupied
- 254,424
- Renter-occupied
- 134,662
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2020 presidential · 449,336 votes cast
- Democratic 283,368 63.1%
- Republican 159,024 35.4%
- Other / third-party 6,944 1.5%
Election results 2020
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
76.2% speak only English at home
- Spanish 110,956 12.1%
- Other Indo-European 35,855 3.9%
- Slavic languages 23,539 2.6%
- Other Asian/Pacific 12,204 1.3%
- Other 8,474 0.9%
- Chinese 8,161 0.9%
- French (incl. Cajun) 7,698 0.8%
- Arabic 3,288 0.4%
- Vietnamese 3,024 0.3%
- German 2,434 0.3%
- Korean 1,971 0.2%
- Tagalog 1,344 0.1%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 389,086
- Family households
- 245,694
- 63.1% of households
- Married w/ children
- 175,893
- Single-mother households
- 25,721
- Veterans
- 36,452
- 4.7% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
49.5% overall adherence rate
- Catholic 235,359 26.2%
- Evangelical Protestant 63,611 7.1%
- Mainline Protestant 62,346 6.9%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 55,480 6.2%
- Black Protestant 25,020 2.8%
- Orthodox 3,018 0.3%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 95.8%
- With a disability
- 12.2%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 41.5%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- Hartford Judicial District Superior Court
- Judges
- 26 (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
- Hartford
This judicial district spans multiple countys.
Traffic safety context
Connecticut statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 70
- Fatal crashes
- 64
NHTSA FARS 2023