Jury Pool Profile
New London County, Connecticut
- Population
- 279,025
- Median household income
- $84,185
- Unemployment
- 4.1%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 212,725 76.2%
- Black or African American alone 15,293 5.5%
- Asian alone 10,427 3.7%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 1,558 0.6%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
- Some other race alone 13,188 4.7%
- Two or more races 25,834 9.3%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 40,941 14.7%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 41
- Under 18 54,621 19.6%
- 18–24 27,280 9.8%
- 25–44 69,643 25.0%
- 45–64 74,338 26.6%
- 65 and over 53,143 19.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 4.1%
- -0.06 pp vs. state
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 65.4%
- Median gross rent
- $1,316
- Owner-occupied
- 74,923
- Renter-occupied
- 39,654
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2020 presidential · 139,604 votes cast
- Democratic 79,459 56.9%
- Republican 57,110 40.9%
- Other / third-party 3,035 2.2%
Election results 2020
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
85.1% speak only English at home
- Spanish 23,233 8.7%
- Other Indo-European 4,255 1.6%
- French (incl. Cajun) 3,599 1.4%
- Chinese 2,489 0.9%
- Tagalog 1,537 0.6%
- Other Asian/Pacific 1,358 0.5%
- Slavic languages 1,055 0.4%
- German 741 0.3%
- Other 509 0.2%
- Vietnamese 361 0.1%
- Arabic 298 0.1%
- Korean 234 0.1%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 114,577
- Family households
- 71,258
- 62.2% of households
- Married w/ children
- 51,405
- Single-mother households
- 7,700
- Veterans
- 19,021
- 8.7% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
35.6% overall adherence rate
- Catholic 50,781 18.9%
- Evangelical Protestant 20,490 7.6%
- Mainline Protestant 13,258 4.9%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 7,157 2.7%
- Black Protestant 2,854 1.1%
- Orthodox 1,024 0.4%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 95.5%
- With a disability
- 14.4%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 34.6%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- New London Judicial District Superior Court
- Judges
- 8 (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 London
Traffic safety context
Connecticut statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 28
- Fatal crashes
- 27
NHTSA FARS 2023