Jury Pool Profile
Okaloosa County, Florida
Republican +42 (2024)
- Population
- 214,281
- Median household income
- $79,097
- Unemployment
- 4.1%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 156,300 72.9%
- Black or African American alone 20,037 9.4%
- Asian alone 7,140 3.3%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 747 0.3%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 561 0.3%
- Some other race alone 8,326 3.9%
- Two or more races 21,170 9.9%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 23,230 10.8%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 37.3
- Under 18 48,437 22.6%
- 18–24 18,170 8.5%
- 25–44 61,390 28.6%
- 45–64 51,178 23.9%
- 65 and over 35,106 16.4%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 4.1%
- -0.04 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $19.0B
- 1.1% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $61,616
- Establishments
- 7,597
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Professional & business services 16,178 18.0%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 16,135 18.0%
- Leisure & hospitality 15,484 17.3%
- Education & health services 15,460 17.2%
- Public administration 11,167 12.4%
- Financial activities 4,417 4.9%
- Construction 4,314 4.8%
- Other services 2,881 3.2%
- Manufacturing 2,802 3.1%
- Information 671 0.7%
- Natural resources & mining 130 0.1%
- Unclassified 69 0.1%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 67.8%
- Median gross rent
- $1,475
- Owner-occupied
- 56,997
- Renter-occupied
- 27,126
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 113,634 votes cast
- Republican 80,309 70.7%
- Democratic 32,074 28.2%
- Other / third-party 1,251 1.1%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
88.0% speak only English at home
- Spanish 13,720 6.8%
- Other Indo-European 2,899 1.4%
- Other Asian/Pacific 1,946 1.0%
- Tagalog 1,288 0.6%
- Slavic languages 1,082 0.5%
- German 998 0.5%
- French (incl. Cajun) 702 0.3%
- Vietnamese 467 0.2%
- Korean 379 0.2%
- Chinese 267 0.1%
- Other 221 0.1%
- Arabic 94 0.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 84,123
- Family households
- 55,904
- 66.5% of households
- Married w/ children
- 43,605
- Single-mother households
- 4,590
- Veterans
- 31,518
- 20.6% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
52.7% overall adherence rate
- Evangelical Protestant 60,728 28.7%
- Mainline Protestant 22,941 10.8%
- Catholic 17,924 8.5%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 8,154 3.9%
- Black Protestant 1,590 0.8%
- Orthodox 266 0.1%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 88.6%
- With a disability
- 15.5%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 34.2%
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
- 28
- 16.88 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 26
NHTSA FARS 2023