Jury Pool Profile

Paulding County, Georgia

Republican +24 (2024)

Population: 174,292
Median household income: $94,557
Unemployment: 3.4%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 115,162 66.1%
Black or African American alone 38,312 22.0%
Asian alone 2,391 1.4%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 546 0.3%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 149 0.1%
Some other race alone 4,134 2.4%
Two or more races 13,598 7.8%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 14,256 8.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 36.7

Under 18 44,800 25.7%
18–24 14,618 8.4%
25–44 48,673 27.9%
45–64 46,292 26.6%
65 and over 19,909 11.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.4%; -0.06 pp vs. state
County GDP: $5.2B; 0.59% of state
Avg. annual pay: $48,705
Establishments: 3,011

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 8,878 29.6%
Trade, transportation & utilities 6,702 22.3%
Leisure & hospitality 4,295 14.3%
Construction 2,512 8.4%
Professional & business services 2,488 8.3%
Public administration 1,574 5.2%
Manufacturing 1,380 4.6%
Other services 1,045 3.5%
Financial activities 815 2.7%
Information 208 0.7%
Unclassified 97 0.3%
Natural resources & mining 40 0.1%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 80.3%
Median gross rent: $1,622
Owner-occupied: 47,042
Renter-occupied: 11,566

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 95,196 votes cast

Republican 58,769 61.7%
Democratic 35,802 37.6%
Other / third-party 625 0.7%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

90.7% speak only English at home

Spanish 9,208 5.6%
Other 1,671 1.0%
Other Indo-European 1,274 0.8%
French (incl. Cajun) 1,035 0.6%
Tagalog 498 0.3%
German 402 0.2%
Other Asian/Pacific 380 0.2%
Chinese 355 0.2%
Korean 195 0.1%
Vietnamese 83 0.1%
Slavic languages 64 0.0%
Arabic 9 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 58,608
Family households: 46,574; 79.5% of households
Married w/ children: 35,832
Single-mother households: 3,958
Veterans: 10,916; 8.5% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

21.6% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 22,182 13.2%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 5,602 3.3%
Catholic 4,024 2.4%
Mainline Protestant 3,599 2.1%
Black Protestant 886 0.5%
Orthodox 180 0.1%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 89.7%
With a disability: 11.5%
Bachelor's or higher: 27.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: Paulding 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: Dallas

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Georgia statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 23; 17.76 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 22

NHTSA FARS 2023