Jury Pool Profile

Forsyth County, Georgia

Republican +33 (2024)

Population: 260,062
Median household income: $138,000
Unemployment: 2.8%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 172,382 66.3%
Black or African American alone 10,689 4.1%
Asian alone 46,863 18.0%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 1,042 0.4%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
Some other race alone 7,150 2.7%
Two or more races 21,936 8.4%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 26,070 10.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 39.4

Under 18 68,187 26.2%
18–24 20,439 7.9%
25–44 66,602 25.6%
45–64 72,421 27.8%
65 and over 32,413 12.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 2.8%; -0.6 pp vs. state
County GDP: $16.3B; 1.85% of state
Avg. annual pay: $64,971
Establishments: 8,896

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 21,905 24.7%
Trade, transportation & utilities 19,387 21.8%
Professional & business services 13,081 14.7%
Leisure & hospitality 9,575 10.8%
Manufacturing 8,160 9.2%
Construction 7,343 8.3%
Financial activities 3,131 3.5%
Public administration 2,378 2.7%
Other services 2,012 2.3%
Information 1,166 1.3%
Unclassified 439 0.5%
Natural resources & mining 198 0.2%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 85.0%
Median gross rent: $1,937
Owner-occupied: 73,661
Renter-occupied: 13,027

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 138,249 votes cast

Republican 91,281 66.0%
Democratic 45,509 32.9%
Other / third-party 1,459 1.1%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

73.8% speak only English at home

Spanish 18,688 7.6%
Other Asian/Pacific 16,052 6.5%
Other Indo-European 14,711 6.0%
Chinese 4,054 1.6%
Slavic languages 2,729 1.1%
Korean 2,465 1.0%
Other 1,928 0.8%
German 1,245 0.5%
Arabic 833 0.3%
Vietnamese 786 0.3%
French (incl. Cajun) 647 0.3%
Tagalog 322 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 86,688
Family households: 70,608; 81.5% of households
Married w/ children: 61,093
Single-mother households: 3,206
Veterans: 9,503; 5% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

42.0% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 46,774 18.6%
Catholic 34,559 13.8%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 12,150 4.8%
Mainline Protestant 11,599 4.6%
Orthodox 456 0.2%
Black Protestant 76 0.0%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 92.1%
With a disability: 8.1%
Bachelor's or higher: 56.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: Bell-Forsyth Judicial Circuit Superior Court
Judges: 5 (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: Cumming

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Georgia statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 16; 8.34 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 15

NHTSA FARS 2023