Jury Pool Profile

Clarke County, Georgia

Democratic +38 (2024)

Population: 129,267
Median household income: $52,267
Unemployment: 3.4%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 74,568 57.7%
Black or African American alone 33,970 26.3%
Asian alone 5,454 4.2%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 490 0.4%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
Some other race alone 4,381 3.4%
Two or more races 10,404 8.0%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 14,751 11.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 29.4

Under 18 21,936 17.0%
18–24 33,073 25.6%
25–44 35,193 27.2%
45–64 23,469 18.2%
65 and over 15,596 12.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.4%; -0.01 pp vs. state
County GDP: $10.8B; 1.23% of state
Avg. annual pay: $57,718
Establishments: 3,952

U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 29,189 40.1%
Trade, transportation & utilities 13,154 18.1%
Leisure & hospitality 9,275 12.7%
Manufacturing 5,555 7.6%
Professional & business services 5,431 7.5%
Public administration 3,235 4.4%
Construction 2,260 3.1%
Financial activities 2,173 3.0%
Other services 1,751 2.4%
Information 509 0.7%
Natural resources & mining 163 0.2%
Unclassified 98 0.1%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 41.2%
Median gross rent: $1,162
Owner-occupied: 22,336
Renter-occupied: 31,825

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 52,887 votes cast

Democratic 36,297 68.6%
Republican 16,049 30.3%
Other / third-party 541 1.0%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

84.9% speak only English at home

Spanish 11,056 9.0%
Other Asian/Pacific 1,643 1.3%
Other Indo-European 1,388 1.1%
Chinese 948 0.8%
Other 728 0.6%
German 646 0.5%
Slavic languages 498 0.4%
French (incl. Cajun) 436 0.4%
Korean 428 0.3%
Arabic 399 0.3%
Vietnamese 237 0.2%
Tagalog 171 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 54,161
Family households: 25,151; 46.4% of households
Married w/ children: 16,217
Single-mother households: 3,461
Veterans: 4,367; 4.1% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

41.8% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 17,195 13.4%
Catholic 13,654 10.6%
Mainline Protestant 12,760 9.9%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 5,390 4.2%
Black Protestant 4,838 3.8%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 88.9%
With a disability: 12.5%
Bachelor's or higher: 48.7%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: Western Judicial Circuit Superior Court
Judges: 4 (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: Athens, Watkinsville

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Georgia statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 19; 17.7 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 18

NHTSA FARS 2023