Jury Pool Profile

Coweta County, Georgia

Republican +33.9 (2024)

County seat: Newnan
Judicial district: Coweta Judicial Circuit Superior Court
Population (July 2025 estimate): 160,240; Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 152,852.

At a glance

Coweta County is a 160,240-person venue. The county population is 70% White and 18% Black (Census race-alone categories). Median household income is $96,188, $16,276 above the GA state median of $79,912; 36.2% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 9.2% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, most commonly Spanish. The largest employment sector is Trade, transportation & utilities, at 25.4% of covered employment, average pay $52,106/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.04%, below the 3.45% state average. The county carried the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking 67% to 69% of the vote across the three.

Population: 152,852
Median household income: $95,548
Unemployment: 3.0%

Who sits on a jury?

Racially mixed

50–70% White and ≥15% Black. This county: 70% / 18%.

Coweta County has a population of 152,852, with a median age of 39.2. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 69.6%; Black residents 18.4%. Independently, 8.2% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The median household earns $96,188; 36.2% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 7.3% live below the federal poverty line.

Race & ethnicity

White (non-Hispanic) 102,811 67.3%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 12,522 8.2%
Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 27,767 18.2%
Asian (non-Hispanic) 3,183 2.1%
Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 5,796 3.8%
American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 61 0.0%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 3 0.0%
Some other race (non-Hispanic) 709 0.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Age distribution

Median age 39.2

Under 18 35,278 23.1%
18–24 12,345 8.1%
25–44 39,826 26.1%
45–64 42,185 27.6%
65 and over 23,218 15.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Income & poverty

Median household income: $96,188; 90% interval $93,091–$99,285; +$16,276 vs GA · 10th of 159
Below poverty line: 7.3%; 90% interval 5.5%–9.1%; −5.5 pp vs GA · 153rd of 159

U.S. Census SAIPE 2024

Economic context

Led by trade & transportation and healthcare & education

Largest sector in BLS QCEW: Trade, transportation & utilities, 12,549 jobs; Education & health services, 11,367, is within 20% of it.

Trade, transportation & utilities is the largest employment sector at 25.4% of covered employment, followed by Education & health services at 23.0%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.04%, below the Georgia state average.

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.0%; −0.41 pp vs. state
County GDP: $7.7B; 0.87% of state
Avg. annual pay: $56,730
Establishments: 3,770

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Trade, transportation & utilities 12,549 25.4%
Education & health services 11,367 23.0%
Leisure & hospitality 6,148 12.5%
Manufacturing 5,886 11.9%
Professional & business services 5,026 10.2%
Public administration 1,962 4.0%
Financial activities 1,738 3.5%
Other services 1,131 2.3%

The sectors listed cover 92.8% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

BLS QCEW 2025

Housing

Home ownership: 78.4%; +12.7 pp vs GA · 38th of 159
Median gross rent: $1,488; +$95 vs GA · 14th of 159
Owner-occupied: 44,124
Renter-occupied: 12,151

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Local economy in 3 reads

Moderately concentrated

Top three sectors employ 61% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.
Moderate wage spread

Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $79,157/yr) pays 3.4× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $23,603/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.
Mixed business scale

Average establishment employs 13 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

1 of the top 5 employers on this list (2 of the listed 10) is in trade, transportation & utilities, accounting for 2,192 employees on this list. So trade, transportation & utilities is the largest sector by employment here, but most of the county's five biggest named employers sit outside it. A panelist who works somewhere you recognize is probably not working where most of this county works; ask where they work before assuming either pattern fits them.

#	Employer	Sector	Employees
1	Coweta County School System	K-12 school district	3,281
2	Amazon	E-commerce fulfillment	1,807
3	Yamaha Motor Manufacturing	ATV and golf car manufacturing	1,486
4	Piedmont Newnan Hospital	Hospital	1,300
5	Coweta County (county government)	County government and administration	1,274
6	City of Hope Atlanta (hospital in Newnan, formerly Cancer Treatment Centers of America)	Cancer treatment hospital	1,200
7	Brent Scarbrough & Company	Heavy civil site contractor	764
8	Cargill Meat Solutions	Meat processing	680
9	Surge Staffing	Staffing agency	661
10	Variety Wholesalers, Inc.	Retail chain distribution center (Roses stores)	385

Source: Coweta County, Georgia, Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2025, 'Principal Employers' schedule, compiled from the Coweta County Development Authority, the Newnan-Coweta County Chamber of Commerce and the Georgia Department of Labor. (2025)

Political composition

Consistently strongly Republican

Republican candidate carried this county in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (avg winning share: 68%). 'Strongly' threshold: ≥60% avg.

Coweta County was carried by the Republican candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 66.6% in 2024, 67.1% in 2020, 69.3% in 2016.

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 85,916 votes cast

Republican
Democratic

Republican 57,204 66.6%
Democratic 28,111 32.7%
Other / third-party 601 0.7%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Family-dominant, English-speaking

Family households are 75% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 9.2% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).

9.2% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, Chinese, Korean. Veterans account for 8.7% of the adult civilian population (10,218 individuals).

Languages spoken at home

90.8% speak only English at home

Spanish 9,197 6.4%
Chinese 699 0.5%
Korean 594 0.4%
French, Haitian, or Cajun 564 0.4%
Vietnamese 518 0.4%
German or other West Germanic 341 0.2%
Tagalog 194 0.1%
Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 108 0.1%
Arabic 87 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Household composition

Households: 56,275
Family households: 42,300; 75.2% of households
Married couples w/ children: 11,778; 27.8% of families
Single-mother families: 3,710; 8.8% of families
Veterans: 10,218; 8.7% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Religious composition

42.4% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 34,317 23.5%
Catholic 11,097 7.6%
Mainline Protestant 9,278 6.3%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 4,449 3.0%
Black Protestant 2,766 1.9%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 91.5%; ±0.9 pp
Uninsured: 8.5%; ±0.9 pp; 149th of 159
With a disability: 13.4%; ±0.9 pp; 125th of 159
Bachelor's or higher: 36.2%; ±1.5 pp; +1.3 pp vs GA · 15th of 159
Uninsured, under 65 (2024): 11.1%; 90% interval 10.2%–12.0% · 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

Trial court: Coweta 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: Greenville, LaGrange, Newnan

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Coweta totals, 2024 — the per-100k rate is based on 14 recorded deaths, too few to be statistically reliable

Traffic fatalities: 14; 11.91 per 100k adults (18+)
Fatal crashes: 14

NHTSA FARS 2024

Presidential vote share by year
Year	Republican	Democratic
2016	69.3%	27.0%
2020	67.1%	31.5%
2024	66.6%	32.7%