Jury Pool Profile
Lake County, Florida
Republican +25 (2024)
- Population
- 398,696
- Median household income
- $69,956
- Unemployment
- 4.4%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 281,556 70.6%
- Black or African American alone 40,334 10.1%
- Asian alone 8,371 2.1%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 893 0.2%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 573 0.1%
- Some other race alone 14,296 3.6%
- Two or more races 52,673 13.2%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 71,545 17.9%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 46.7
- Under 18 76,072 19.1%
- 18–24 25,964 6.5%
- 25–44 89,477 22.4%
- 45–64 101,028 25.3%
- 65 and over 106,155 26.6%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 4.4%
- +0.3 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $17.9B
- 1.04% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $53,106
- Establishments
- 10,822
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 29,311 25.0%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 26,391 22.5%
- Leisure & hospitality 15,153 12.9%
- Professional & business services 12,296 10.5%
- Construction 12,265 10.5%
- Public administration 5,745 4.9%
- Manufacturing 4,864 4.1%
- Financial activities 4,259 3.6%
- Other services 3,323 2.8%
- Natural resources & mining 2,458 2.1%
- Information 1,123 1.0%
- Unclassified 166 0.1%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 76.6%
- Median gross rent
- $1,468
- Owner-occupied
- 122,233
- Renter-occupied
- 37,241
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 226,781 votes cast
- Republican 140,500 62.0%
- Democratic 84,546 37.3%
- Other / third-party 1,735 0.8%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
84.3% speak only English at home
- Spanish 45,932 12.1%
- Other Indo-European 3,638 1.0%
- French (incl. Cajun) 3,236 0.9%
- German 1,925 0.5%
- Vietnamese 1,100 0.3%
- Tagalog 855 0.2%
- Other Asian/Pacific 830 0.2%
- Chinese 589 0.2%
- Slavic languages 488 0.1%
- Other 402 0.1%
- Arabic 365 0.1%
- Korean 225 0.1%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 159,474
- Family households
- 108,311
- 67.9% of households
- Married w/ children
- 85,828
- Single-mother households
- 7,315
- Veterans
- 33,662
- 10.4% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
40.7% overall adherence rate
- Catholic 61,166 15.9%
- Evangelical Protestant 61,062 15.9%
- Mainline Protestant 16,005 4.2%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 12,810 3.3%
- Black Protestant 5,230 1.4%
- Orthodox 130 0.0%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 89.9%
- With a disability
- 15.9%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 26.8%
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
- 83
- 25.73 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 69
NHTSA FARS 2023