Jury Pool Profile
Escambia County, Florida
Republican +20 (2024)
- Population
- 323,275
- Median household income
- $65,715
- Unemployment
- 4.6%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 208,075 64.4%
- Black or African American alone 68,374 21.2%
- Asian alone 9,311 2.9%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 965 0.3%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 340 0.1%
- Some other race alone 7,218 2.2%
- Two or more races 28,992 9.0%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 21,413 6.6%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 38.1
- Under 18 67,902 21.0%
- 18–24 35,043 10.8%
- 25–44 84,723 26.2%
- 45–64 78,547 24.3%
- 65 and over 57,060 17.7%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 4.6%
- +0.51 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $24.4B
- 1.41% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $60,268
- Establishments
- 9,738
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 35,903 24.6%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 27,566 18.9%
- Leisure & hospitality 20,744 14.2%
- Professional & business services 17,220 11.8%
- Financial activities 14,821 10.2%
- Construction 9,339 6.4%
- Public administration 8,649 5.9%
- Manufacturing 5,464 3.7%
- Other services 5,012 3.4%
- Information 878 0.6%
- Natural resources & mining 246 0.2%
- Unclassified 131 0.1%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 64.0%
- Median gross rent
- $1,234
- Owner-occupied
- 82,106
- Renter-occupied
- 46,186
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 162,754 votes cast
- Republican 96,407 59.2%
- Democratic 64,601 39.7%
- Other / third-party 1,746 1.1%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
91.8% speak only English at home
- Spanish 12,791 4.2%
- Tagalog 2,324 0.8%
- Other Indo-European 2,164 0.7%
- Chinese 1,351 0.4%
- Vietnamese 1,320 0.4%
- French (incl. Cajun) 1,039 0.3%
- Other Asian/Pacific 1,021 0.3%
- German 1,007 0.3%
- Arabic 658 0.2%
- Slavic languages 621 0.2%
- Other 460 0.2%
- Korean 273 0.1%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 128,292
- Family households
- 79,607
- 62.1% of households
- Married w/ children
- 54,217
- Single-mother households
- 9,400
- Veterans
- 33,654
- 13.8% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
53.4% overall adherence rate
- Evangelical Protestant 104,711 32.5%
- Catholic 26,727 8.3%
- Mainline Protestant 18,478 5.7%
- Black Protestant 14,419 4.5%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 6,887 2.1%
- Orthodox 718 0.2%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 87.9%
- With a disability
- 17.2%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 28.9%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 1st Judicial Circuit Court
- Judges
- 21 (Circuit Court judges per circuit (general civil + felony criminal jurisdiction); County Court judges (limited jurisdiction — claims ≤ $50,000, misdemeanors, traffic) separate. Vintage 2026 flcourts.gov; statutory judgeships are reauthorized annually by the Florida Supreme Court's certification of need under Fla. Stat. § 26.031 and may shift by ±1-2 between sessions. Counts for smaller rural circuits (3rd, 16th) are statutory minimums per § 26.031.)
- Court seats
- Crestview, DeFuniak Springs, Milton, Pensacola
This judicial district spans multiple countys.
Traffic safety context
Florida statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 63
- 24.67 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 62
NHTSA FARS 2023