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Jury Pool Profile

Windham County, Connecticut

Population
95,829
Median household income
$87,564
Unemployment
4.4%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity
  • White alone 84,910 88.6%
  • Black or African American alone 1,722 1.8%
  • Asian alone 1,307 1.4%
  • American Indian / Alaska Native alone 189 0.2%
  • Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 86 0.1%
  • Some other race alone 1,784 1.9%
  • Two or more races 5,831 6.1%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4,839 5.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 43.9

  • Under 18 17,836 18.6%
  • 18–24 6,985 7.3%
  • 25–44 24,231 25.3%
  • 45–64 28,525 29.8%
  • 65 and over 18,252 19.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy
Unemployment (12-mo)
4.4%
+0.26 pp vs. state

U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024

Housing
Home ownership
76.2%
Median gross rent
$1,153
Owner-occupied
29,835
Renter-occupied
9,320

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2020 presidential · 57,077 votes cast

  • Republican 29,141 51.1%
  • Democratic 26,701 46.8%
  • Other / third-party 1,235 2.2%

Election results 2020

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

94.0% speak only English at home

  • Spanish 2,343 2.6%
  • Other Indo-European 809 0.9%
  • French (incl. Cajun) 705 0.8%
  • Slavic languages 546 0.6%
  • Other Asian/Pacific 289 0.3%
  • Tagalog 251 0.3%
  • Chinese 201 0.2%
  • German 131 0.1%
  • Other 120 0.1%
  • Korean 102 0.1%
  • Vietnamese 17 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition
Households
39,155
Family households
26,276
67.1% of households
Married w/ children
19,315
Single-mother households
2,552
Veterans
6,466
8.3% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

26.5% overall adherence rate

  • Catholic 15,365 13.2%
  • Evangelical Protestant 8,199 7.0%
  • Mainline Protestant 4,926 4.2%
  • Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,833 1.6%
  • Black Protestant 306 0.3%
  • Orthodox 225 0.2%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education
Health insured
96.3%
With a disability
14.0%
Bachelor's or higher
26.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Court infrastructure
Trial court
Windham Judicial District Superior Court
Judges
3 (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
Putnam
Court reference
Traffic safety context

Connecticut statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities
14
Fatal crashes
13

NHTSA FARS 2023

About this profile

This profile aggregates publicly available U.S. government statistics for Windham 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.