Jury Pool Profile
Middlesex County, Connecticut
- Population
- 174,983
- Median household income
- $101,117
- Unemployment
- 3.6%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 143,620 82.1%
- Black or African American alone 8,921 5.1%
- Asian alone 6,109 3.5%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 334 0.2%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 225 0.1%
- Some other race alone 2,811 1.6%
- Two or more races 12,963 7.4%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 13,031 7.4%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 45.8
- Under 18 29,746 17.0%
- 18–24 15,343 8.8%
- 25–44 40,907 23.4%
- 45–64 51,179 29.2%
- 65 and over 37,808 21.6%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 3.6%
- -0.52 pp vs. state
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 75.2%
- Median gross rent
- $1,399
- Owner-occupied
- 55,387
- Renter-occupied
- 18,237
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2020 presidential · 99,203 votes cast
- Democratic 56,848 57.3%
- Republican 40,665 41.0%
- Other / third-party 1,690 1.7%
Election results 2020
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
89.0% speak only English at home
- Spanish 6,911 4.1%
- Other Indo-European 4,144 2.5%
- Slavic languages 1,965 1.2%
- Chinese 1,181 0.7%
- Other 1,098 0.7%
- Other Asian/Pacific 1,047 0.6%
- French (incl. Cajun) 760 0.5%
- German 378 0.2%
- Tagalog 274 0.2%
- Arabic 265 0.2%
- Vietnamese 262 0.2%
- Korean 237 0.1%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 73,624
- Family households
- 46,145
- 62.7% of households
- Married w/ children
- 37,241
- Single-mother households
- 3,443
- Veterans
- 8,755
- 6% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
44.8% overall adherence rate
- Catholic 46,647 28.4%
- Evangelical Protestant 11,193 6.8%
- Mainline Protestant 9,285 5.7%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 5,056 3.1%
- Black Protestant 1,360 0.8%
- Orthodox 46 0.0%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 96.6%
- With a disability
- 11.5%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 45.5%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- Middlesex 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
- Middletown
Traffic safety context
Connecticut statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 18
- Fatal crashes
- 17
NHTSA FARS 2023