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Bulloch County, Georgia

Republican +29.0 (2024)
County seat
Statesboro
Judicial district
Ogeechee Judicial Circuit Superior Court
Population (July 2025 estimate)
86,949
Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 82,683.

At a glance

Bulloch County is an 86,949-person venue. The county population is 62% White and 28% Black (Census race-alone categories). Median household income is $56,738, $23,174 below the GA state median of $79,912; 32.5% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 6.6% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, most commonly Spanish. The largest employment sector is Education & health services, at 31.5% of covered employment, average pay $56,630/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.47%, above the 3.45% state average. The county carried the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking 60% to 64% of the vote across the three.

Population
82,683
Median household income
$58,810
Unemployment
3.5%

Who sits on a jury?

Racially mixed

50–70% White and ≥15% Black. This county: 62% / 28%.

Bulloch County has a population of 82,683, with a median age of 30.5. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 62.2%; Black residents 28.2%. Independently, 5.2% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The median household earns $56,738; 32.5% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 21.5% live below the federal poverty line.

Race & ethnicity
  • White (non-Hispanic) 50,809 61.5%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4,263 5.2%
  • Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 23,214 28.1%
  • Asian (non-Hispanic) 1,195 1.4%
  • Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 2,782 3.4%
  • American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 91 0.1%
  • Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 31 0.0%
  • Some other race (non-Hispanic) 298 0.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Age distribution

Median age 30.5

  • Under 18 16,550 20.0%
  • 18–24 18,949 22.9%
  • 25–44 20,139 24.4%
  • 45–64 16,780 20.3%
  • 65 and over 10,265 12.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Income & poverty
Median household income
$56,738
90% interval $52,580–$60,896
−$23,174 vs GA · 89th of 159
Below poverty line
21.5%
90% interval 18.2%–24.8%
+8.7 pp vs GA · 47th of 159

U.S. Census SAIPE 2024

Economic context

Healthcare & education anchored

Largest sector in BLS QCEW, even counting every withheld job toward the other sectors: Education & health services, about 31% of covered jobs.

Education & health services is the largest employment sector at 31.5% of covered employment, followed by Trade, transportation & utilities at 20.1%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.47%, above the Georgia state average.

Local economy
Unemployment (12-mo)
3.5%
+0.02 pp vs. state
County GDP
$3.8B
0.43% of state
Avg. annual pay
$49,063
Establishments
1,978

U.S. BLS 2026M07 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2025

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

  • Education & health services 9,070 31.5%
  • Trade, transportation & utilities 5,801 20.1%
  • Leisure & hospitality 4,154 14.4%
  • Manufacturing 2,286 7.9%
  • Professional & business services 2,014 7.0%
  • Public administration 1,599 5.5%
  • Financial activities 1,146 4.0%
  • Other services 634 2.2%
  • Information 21 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 92.7% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

BLS QCEW 2025

Housing
Home ownership
53.1%
−12.6 pp vs GA · 151st of 159
Median gross rent
$995
−$398 vs GA · 51st of 159
Owner-occupied
16,389
Renter-occupied
14,467

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Local economy in 3 reads
  • Concentrated

    Top three sectors employ 66% of the county workforce. Most panelists likely share employer relationships within these sectors, surface those connections early in voir dire before any institutional-defendant or sector-specific framing.

  • Moderate wage spread

    Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $61,889/yr) pays 3.2× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $19,052/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

  • Mixed business scale

    Average establishment employs 15 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

BLS QCEW 2025

Largest employers

Principal employers by headcount

3 of the top 5 employers on this list (3 of the listed 8) are in education & health services, accounting for 5,565 employees on this list. This concentrates 'big institutional employer' juror experience in one sector; confirm employer ties before any framing that touches it.

# Employer Sector Employees
1 Georgia Southern University Education (state university) 2,707
2 Bulloch County Board of Education Education (K-12 school district) 1,724
3 Bulloch County Board of Commissioners Government 1,289
4 East Georgia Regional Medical Center Healthcare (hospital) 1,134
5 Walmart Distribution Center Warehouse 1,000
6 Great Dane Manufacturing (truck trailers) 487
7 Briggs & Stratton Manufacturing (engines) 451
8 Walmart Supercenter Retail 412
9 H A Sack Co, Inc. Construction 369

Showing 9 of 10 employers on the published list(9,873 employees total).

Source: Bulloch County Public Facilities Authority, Final Official Statement for its Series 2025 revenue bonds, dated August 5, 2025, 'Principal Employers' table for calendar year 2025, sourced to Bulloch County. Counts are approximate. The table calls these private employers, but it includes the university, the school board and the county. (2025)

Political composition

Consistently strongly Republican

Republican candidate carried this county in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (avg winning share: 62%). 'Strongly' threshold: ≥60% avg.

Bulloch County was carried by the Republican candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 64.3% in 2024, 61.1% in 2020, 59.9% in 2016.

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 32,657 votes cast

  • Republican
  • Democratic
Presidential vote share by year
YearRepublicanDemocratic
201659.9%36.5%
202061.1%37.4%
202464.3%35.3%
  • Republican 20,985 64.3%
  • Democratic 11,514 35.3%
  • Other / third-party 158 0.5%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Family-majority, English-speaking

Family households are 57% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 6.6% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).

6.6% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, French, Haitian, or Cajun, German or other West Germanic. Veterans account for 5.6% of the adult civilian population (3,702 individuals).

Languages spoken at home

93.4% speak only English at home

  • Spanish 3,158 4.0%
  • French, Haitian, or Cajun 414 0.5%
  • German or other West Germanic 314 0.4%
  • Chinese 181 0.2%
  • Korean 175 0.2%
  • Tagalog 109 0.1%
  • Vietnamese 92 0.1%
  • Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 20 0.0%
  • Arabic 10 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Household composition
Households
30,856
Family households
17,450
56.6% of households
Married couples w/ children
4,412
25.3% of families
Single-mother families
2,315
13.3% of families
Veterans
3,702
5.6% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Religious composition

34.4% overall adherence rate

  • Evangelical Protestant 17,718 21.8%
  • Mainline Protestant 5,874 7.2%
  • Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,520 1.9%
  • Black Protestant 1,486 1.8%
  • Catholic 1,311 1.6%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education
Health insured
89.1%
±1.3 pp
Uninsured
10.9%
±1.3 pp
120th of 159
With a disability
15.6%
±1.4 pp
97th of 159
Bachelor's or higher
32.5%
±2.2 pp
−2.4 pp vs GA · 18th of 159
Uninsured, under 65 (2024)
14.0%
90% interval 12.6%–15.4% · Census SAHIE

The under-65 uninsured rate is not comparable to the ACS insurance figures, which cover all ages.

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Court infrastructure

Court infrastructure
Trial court
Ogeechee Judicial Circuit Superior Court
Judges
3 (Superior Court judges per circuit (general civil + felony criminal jurisdiction); State Court + Magistrate Court judges (limited jurisdiction) separate. O.C.G.A. § 15-6-1 map effective Jan 1, 2025; statewide total 252 Superior Court judgeships per O.C.G.A. § 15-6-2 allocations.)
Court seats
Millen, Springfield, Statesboro, Sylvania

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Court reference
Traffic safety context

Bulloch totals, 2024 — the per-100k rate is based on 10 recorded deaths, too few to be statistically reliable

Traffic fatalities
10
15.12 per 100k adults (18+)
Fatal crashes
9

NHTSA FARS 2024

About this profile

This profile aggregates publicly available U.S. government statistics for Bulloch County, Georgia to give trial attorneys venue context for jury selection. It describes the general population of the county, not the qualified jury wheel, and is not legal advice or a substitute for the court's juror records.

Sources as of: U.S. Census ACS 2024 · U.S. BLS 2026M07 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2025 · Election results 2024 · NHTSA FARS 2024 · US Religion Census 2020.

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