Jury Pool Profile

Whitfield County, Georgia

Republican +44 (2024)

Population: 103,118
Median household income: $64,262
Unemployment: 3.9%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 71,835 69.7%
Black or African American alone 3,508 3.4%
Asian alone 1,525 1.5%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 1,752 1.7%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 23 0.0%
Some other race alone 14,499 14.1%
Two or more races 9,976 9.7%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 37,703 36.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 36.6

Under 18 26,051 25.3%
18–24 9,724 9.4%
25–44 26,864 26.1%
45–64 25,326 24.6%
65 and over 15,153 14.7%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.9%; +0.47 pp vs. state
County GDP: $7.7B; 0.88% of state
Avg. annual pay: $54,855
Establishments: 2,734

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Manufacturing 18,994 32.8%
Trade, transportation & utilities 12,045 20.8%
Education & health services 9,670 16.7%
Professional & business services 7,768 13.4%
Leisure & hospitality 3,827 6.6%
Public administration 1,855 3.2%
Construction 1,255 2.2%
Financial activities 1,083 1.9%
Other services 856 1.5%
Information 217 0.4%
Natural resources & mining 173 0.3%
Unclassified 85 0.1%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 68.0%
Median gross rent: $907
Owner-occupied: 24,548
Renter-occupied: 11,553

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 39,828 votes cast

Republican 28,655 71.9%
Democratic 10,953 27.5%
Other / third-party 220 0.6%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

69.6% speak only English at home

Spanish 28,012 29.0%
Other Indo-European 284 0.3%
Other Asian/Pacific 241 0.2%
Vietnamese 238 0.2%
Korean 208 0.2%
Chinese 109 0.1%
French (incl. Cajun) 88 0.1%
Tagalog 82 0.1%
German 72 0.1%
Arabic 48 0.0%
Slavic languages 23 0.0%
Other 22 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 36,101
Family households: 26,284; 72.8% of households
Married w/ children: 18,331
Single-mother households: 2,704
Veterans: 3,609; 4.7% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

70.0% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 42,318 41.1%
Catholic 20,365 19.8%
Mainline Protestant 5,552 5.4%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,780 2.7%
Black Protestant 946 0.9%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 82.5%
With a disability: 11.5%
Bachelor's or higher: 19.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: Conasauga 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: Chatsworth, Dalton

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Georgia statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 12; 15.57 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 11

NHTSA FARS 2023