Jury Pool Profile
Lee County, Florida
Republican +28 (2024)
- Population
- 792,692
- Median household income
- $73,099
- Unemployment
- 4.6%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 558,482 70.5%
- Black or African American alone 63,125 8.0%
- Asian alone 13,395 1.7%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 4,708 0.6%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 383 0.0%
- Some other race alone 33,893 4.3%
- Two or more races 118,706 15.0%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 187,055 23.6%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 49.3
- Under 18 136,461 17.2%
- 18–24 56,260 7.1%
- 25–44 168,549 21.3%
- 45–64 201,942 25.5%
- 65 and over 229,480 28.9%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 4.6%
- +0.47 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $54.2B
- 3.14% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $61,578
- Establishments
- 28,954
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 64,830 21.7%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 60,074 20.1%
- Leisure & hospitality 41,969 14.0%
- Construction 41,523 13.9%
- Professional & business services 40,272 13.5%
- Financial activities 14,424 4.8%
- Public administration 13,075 4.4%
- Other services 9,785 3.3%
- Manufacturing 8,147 2.7%
- Information 3,164 1.1%
- Natural resources & mining 1,590 0.5%
- Unclassified 429 0.1%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 74.0%
- Median gross rent
- $1,597
- Owner-occupied
- 236,433
- Renter-occupied
- 83,155
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 392,519 votes cast
- Republican 250,661 63.9%
- Democratic 139,240 35.5%
- Other / third-party 2,618 0.7%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
75.6% speak only English at home
- Spanish 141,298 18.7%
- French (incl. Cajun) 14,941 2.0%
- Other Indo-European 10,375 1.4%
- German 4,411 0.6%
- Slavic languages 3,708 0.5%
- Other 2,119 0.3%
- Tagalog 1,916 0.3%
- Chinese 1,872 0.2%
- Other Asian/Pacific 1,838 0.2%
- Vietnamese 1,676 0.2%
- Arabic 635 0.1%
- Korean 270 0.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 319,588
- Family households
- 207,847
- 65.0% of households
- Married w/ children
- 163,074
- Single-mother households
- 15,196
- Veterans
- 52,360
- 8% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
41.7% overall adherence rate
- Catholic 142,872 18.8%
- Evangelical Protestant 124,436 16.4%
- Mainline Protestant 22,464 3.0%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 21,445 2.8%
- Black Protestant 4,752 0.6%
- Orthodox 978 0.1%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 87.5%
- With a disability
- 13.7%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 30.8%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 20th Judicial Circuit Court
- Judges
- 36 (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
- East Naples, Fort Myers, LaBelle, Moore Haven, Punta Gorda
This judicial district spans multiple countys.
Traffic safety context
Florida statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 120
- 18.29 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 109
NHTSA FARS 2023