Jury Pool Profile
New Haven County, Connecticut
- Population
- 566,803
- Median household income
- $86,266
- Unemployment
- 4.2%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 362,498 64.0%
- Black or African American alone 79,175 14.0%
- Asian alone 25,059 4.4%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 1,221 0.2%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 187 0.0%
- Some other race alone 47,422 8.4%
- Two or more races 51,241 9.0%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 108,273 19.1%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 40.2
- Under 18 112,160 19.8%
- 18–24 57,718 10.2%
- 25–44 144,190 25.4%
- 45–64 149,611 26.4%
- 65 and over 103,124 18.2%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 4.2%
- +0.03 pp vs. state
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 60.6%
- Median gross rent
- $1,463
- Owner-occupied
- 137,908
- Renter-occupied
- 89,831
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2020 presidential · 417,980 votes cast
- Democratic 242,629 58.0%
- Republican 169,892 40.6%
- Other / third-party 5,459 1.3%
Election results 2020
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
78.0% speak only English at home
- Spanish 72,669 13.5%
- Other Indo-European 14,309 2.7%
- Chinese 6,184 1.1%
- Other 5,013 0.9%
- French (incl. Cajun) 3,916 0.7%
- Slavic languages 3,845 0.7%
- Other Asian/Pacific 3,704 0.7%
- Arabic 3,065 0.6%
- German 1,638 0.3%
- Korean 1,493 0.3%
- Tagalog 1,430 0.3%
- Vietnamese 1,122 0.2%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 227,739
- Family households
- 140,148
- 61.5% of households
- Married w/ children
- 97,466
- Single-mother households
- 15,679
- Veterans
- 20,951
- 4.6% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
46.6% overall adherence rate
- Catholic 258,278 29.9%
- Evangelical Protestant 55,739 6.4%
- Mainline Protestant 38,204 4.4%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 34,007 3.9%
- Black Protestant 12,490 1.4%
- Orthodox 3,977 0.5%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 94.9%
- With a disability
- 11.7%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 41.1%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- New Haven Judicial District Superior Court
- Judges
- 20 (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
- New Haven
This judicial district spans multiple countys.
Traffic safety context
Connecticut statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 73
- Fatal crashes
- 70
NHTSA FARS 2023