Jury Pool Profile
St. Johns County, Florida
Republican +31 (2024)
- Population
- 292,243
- Median household income
- $106,169
- Unemployment
- 4.2%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 237,204 81.2%
- Black or African American alone 15,285 5.2%
- Asian alone 9,935 3.4%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 277 0.1%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 199 0.1%
- Some other race alone 5,166 1.8%
- Two or more races 24,177 8.3%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 25,354 8.7%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 44
- Under 18 63,345 21.7%
- 18–24 19,725 6.7%
- 25–44 66,533 22.8%
- 45–64 81,683 28.0%
- 65 and over 60,957 20.9%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 4.2%
- +0.11 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $18.6B
- 1.08% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $60,008
- Establishments
- 11,005
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 21,852 22.1%
- Leisure & hospitality 20,118 20.4%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 19,536 19.8%
- Professional & business services 11,274 11.4%
- Construction 6,106 6.2%
- Financial activities 5,409 5.5%
- Other services 4,705 4.8%
- Public administration 4,167 4.2%
- Manufacturing 3,940 4.0%
- Information 986 1.0%
- Natural resources & mining 546 0.6%
- Unclassified 179 0.2%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 82.1%
- Median gross rent
- $1,775
- Owner-occupied
- 89,302
- Renter-occupied
- 19,525
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 197,452 votes cast
- Republican 128,759 65.2%
- Democratic 66,862 33.9%
- Other / third-party 1,831 0.9%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
89.1% speak only English at home
- Spanish 13,788 4.9%
- Other Indo-European 5,715 2.1%
- Slavic languages 2,931 1.1%
- Other Asian/Pacific 2,187 0.8%
- German 1,496 0.5%
- French (incl. Cajun) 1,285 0.5%
- Chinese 1,155 0.4%
- Tagalog 490 0.2%
- Other 380 0.1%
- Vietnamese 371 0.1%
- Arabic 337 0.1%
- Korean 290 0.1%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 108,827
- Family households
- 80,880
- 74.3% of households
- Married w/ children
- 68,657
- Single-mother households
- 4,526
- Veterans
- 22,703
- 9.9% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
36.4% overall adherence rate
- Evangelical Protestant 39,763 14.5%
- Catholic 35,490 13.0%
- Mainline Protestant 11,577 4.2%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 9,177 3.4%
- Black Protestant 3,250 1.2%
- Orthodox 325 0.1%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 93.6%
- With a disability
- 10.8%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 48.6%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 7th Judicial Circuit Court
- Judges
- 26 (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
- Bunnell, DeLand, Palatka, St. Augustine
This judicial district spans multiple countys.
Traffic safety context
Florida statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 41
- 17.91 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 38
NHTSA FARS 2023