Jury Pool Profile
Hernando County, Florida
Republican +37 (2024)
- Population
- 201,512
- Median household income
- $63,193
- Unemployment
- 4.9%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 158,608 78.7%
- Black or African American alone 10,078 5.0%
- Asian alone 2,779 1.4%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 496 0.2%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 188 0.1%
- Some other race alone 9,041 4.5%
- Two or more races 20,322 10.1%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 32,348 16.1%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 48.1
- Under 18 37,366 18.5%
- 18–24 13,265 6.6%
- 25–44 43,893 21.8%
- 45–64 53,461 26.5%
- 65 and over 53,527 26.6%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 4.9%
- +0.81 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $7.3B
- 0.42% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $50,502
- Establishments
- 4,658
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 13,823 27.2%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 11,666 22.9%
- Leisure & hospitality 6,967 13.7%
- Professional & business services 4,632 9.1%
- Construction 3,780 7.4%
- Manufacturing 2,887 5.7%
- Public administration 2,727 5.4%
- Financial activities 1,996 3.9%
- Other services 1,616 3.2%
- Information 415 0.8%
- Natural resources & mining 290 0.6%
- Unclassified 53 0.1%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 81.8%
- Median gross rent
- $1,209
- Owner-occupied
- 65,905
- Renter-occupied
- 14,639
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 110,687 votes cast
- Republican 75,446 68.2%
- Democratic 34,431 31.1%
- Other / third-party 810 0.7%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
87.5% speak only English at home
- Spanish 18,514 9.6%
- Other Indo-European 1,148 0.6%
- German 994 0.5%
- Slavic languages 726 0.4%
- French (incl. Cajun) 705 0.4%
- Other Asian/Pacific 576 0.3%
- Tagalog 360 0.2%
- Vietnamese 338 0.2%
- Chinese 336 0.2%
- Other 215 0.1%
- Arabic 201 0.1%
- Korean 50 0.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 80,544
- Family households
- 54,233
- 67.3% of households
- Married w/ children
- 39,837
- Single-mother households
- 4,451
- Veterans
- 19,226
- 11.7% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
36.7% overall adherence rate
- Catholic 40,366 20.8%
- Evangelical Protestant 21,014 10.8%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 5,111 2.6%
- Mainline Protestant 3,784 1.9%
- Black Protestant 961 0.5%
- Orthodox 130 0.1%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 88.3%
- With a disability
- 19.5%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 20.4%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 5th Judicial Circuit Court
- Judges
- 33 (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
- Brooksville, Bushnell, Inverness, Ocala, Tavares
This judicial district spans multiple countys.
Traffic safety context
Florida statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 45
- 27.41 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 43
NHTSA FARS 2023