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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
Court reference
Traffic safety context

Connecticut statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities
26
Fatal crashes
25

NHTSA FARS 2023

About this profile

This profile aggregates publicly available U.S. government statistics for Litchfield County, Connecticut to give trial attorneys venue context for jury selection. It describes the general population of the county, not the qualified jury wheel, and is not legal advice or a substitute for the court's juror records.

Sources as of: U.S. Census ACS 2023 · U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024 · Election results 2020 · NHTSA FARS 2023 · US Religion Census 2020.