Jury Pool Profile
Litchfield County, Connecticut
- Population
- 112,848
- Median household income
- $91,035
- Unemployment
- 4.0%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 96,043 85.1%
- Black or African American alone 3,072 2.7%
- Asian alone 2,457 2.2%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 116 0.1%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
- Some other race alone 3,400 3.0%
- Two or more races 7,760 6.9%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 9,442 8.4%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 47.1
- Under 18 20,400 18.1%
- 18–24 8,000 7.1%
- 25–44 25,842 22.9%
- 45–64 33,505 29.7%
- 65 and over 25,101 22.2%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 4.0%
- -0.19 pp vs. state
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 75.9%
- Median gross rent
- $1,169
- Owner-occupied
- 35,683
- Renter-occupied
- 11,352
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2020 presidential · 107,544 votes cast
- Republican 55,601 51.7%
- Democratic 50,164 46.6%
- Other / third-party 1,779 1.7%
Election results 2020
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
89.3% speak only English at home
- Spanish 5,506 5.1%
- Other Indo-European 2,082 1.9%
- French (incl. Cajun) 1,148 1.1%
- Slavic languages 1,017 0.9%
- Other Asian/Pacific 580 0.5%
- Korean 238 0.2%
- German 219 0.2%
- Other 219 0.2%
- Chinese 195 0.2%
- Tagalog 170 0.2%
- Vietnamese 118 0.1%
- Arabic 21 0.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 47,035
- Family households
- 30,109
- 64.0% of households
- Married w/ children
- 23,783
- Single-mother households
- 2,035
- Veterans
- 5,695
- 6.2% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
36.0% overall adherence rate
- Catholic 44,548 24.1%
- Mainline Protestant 11,838 6.4%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 5,190 2.8%
- Evangelical Protestant 4,802 2.6%
- Black Protestant 161 0.1%
- Orthodox 156 0.1%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 96.1%
- With a disability
- 12.2%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 39.4%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- Litchfield Judicial District Superior Court
- Judges
- 5 (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
- Litchfield
Traffic safety context
Connecticut statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 26
- Fatal crashes
- 25
NHTSA FARS 2023