Jury Pool Profile
Indian River County, Florida
Republican +27 (2024)
- Population
- 163,856
- Median household income
- $71,049
- Unemployment
- 5.1%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 126,618 77.3%
- Black or African American alone 13,211 8.1%
- Asian alone 2,451 1.5%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 689 0.4%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
- Some other race alone 5,020 3.1%
- Two or more races 15,867 9.7%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 22,009 13.4%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 55
- Under 18 24,975 15.2%
- 18–24 10,416 6.4%
- 25–44 29,399 17.9%
- 45–64 43,043 26.3%
- 65 and over 56,023 34.2%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 5.1%
- +1 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $11.2B
- 0.65% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $57,991
- Establishments
- 5,868
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 14,043 24.4%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 11,371 19.8%
- Leisure & hospitality 8,534 14.8%
- Professional & business services 6,650 11.6%
- Construction 4,959 8.6%
- Financial activities 2,872 5.0%
- Manufacturing 2,816 4.9%
- Public administration 2,601 4.5%
- Other services 2,419 4.2%
- Natural resources & mining 786 1.4%
- Information 391 0.7%
- Unclassified 80 0.1%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 79.3%
- Median gross rent
- $1,284
- Owner-occupied
- 54,497
- Renter-occupied
- 14,199
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 99,015 votes cast
- Republican 62,737 63.4%
- Democratic 35,654 36.0%
- Other / third-party 624 0.6%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
85.7% speak only English at home
- Spanish 15,532 9.9%
- French (incl. Cajun) 2,043 1.3%
- Other Indo-European 1,593 1.0%
- Slavic languages 871 0.6%
- Other Asian/Pacific 562 0.4%
- German 548 0.3%
- Vietnamese 347 0.2%
- Other 325 0.2%
- Arabic 246 0.2%
- Chinese 218 0.1%
- Tagalog 132 0.1%
- Korean 86 0.1%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 68,696
- Family households
- 43,346
- 63.1% of households
- Married w/ children
- 34,366
- Single-mother households
- 3,287
- Veterans
- 14,078
- 10.2% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
52.6% overall adherence rate
- Catholic 47,864 30.0%
- Evangelical Protestant 16,368 10.2%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 9,059 5.7%
- Mainline Protestant 8,544 5.3%
- Black Protestant 2,244 1.4%
- Orthodox 35 0.0%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 89.4%
- With a disability
- 16.8%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 33.4%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 19th Judicial Circuit Court
- Judges
- 22 (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
- Fort Pierce, Okeechobee, Stuart, Vero Beach
This judicial district spans multiple countys.
Traffic safety context
Florida statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 18
- 12.96 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 17
NHTSA FARS 2023