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Jury Pool Profile

Page County, Iowa

Republican +42.4 (2024)
County seat
Clarinda
Judicial district
4th Judicial District Court
Population (July 2025 estimate)
14,856
Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 15,131.

At a glance

Page County is a 14,856-person venue. The county population is 91% White (Census race-alone categories). Median household income is $64,193, $11,430 below the IA state median of $75,623; 19.2% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 2.5% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, most commonly Spanish. The largest employment sector is Education & health services, at 30.9% of covered employment, average pay $56,460/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 2.61%, below the 3.34% state average. The county carried the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking roughly 70% of the vote each time.

Population
15,131
Median household income
$57,953
Unemployment
2.6%

Who sits on a jury?

Predominantly White

≥70% White (race-alone) and <20% Black. This county: 91% / 2%.

Page County has a population of 15,131, with a median age of 45.1. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 91.5%; Black residents 1.7%. Independently, 3.3% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The median household earns $64,193; 19.2% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 14.5% live below the federal poverty line.

Race & ethnicity
  • White (non-Hispanic) 13,662 90.3%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 505 3.3%
  • Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 259 1.7%
  • Asian (non-Hispanic) 83 0.5%
  • Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 521 3.4%
  • American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 59 0.4%
  • Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 2 0.0%
  • Some other race (non-Hispanic) 40 0.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Age distribution

Median age 45.1

  • Under 18 2,906 19.2%
  • 18–24 937 6.2%
  • 25–44 3,705 24.5%
  • 45–64 3,919 25.9%
  • 65 and over 3,664 24.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Income & poverty
Median household income
$64,193
90% interval $57,015–$71,371
−$11,430 vs IA · 83rd of 99
Below poverty line
14.5%
90% interval 11.4%–17.6%
+3.3 pp vs IA · 8th of 99

U.S. Census SAIPE 2024

Economic context

Healthcare & education anchored

Largest sector in BLS QCEW, even counting every withheld job toward the other sectors: Education & health services, about 31% of covered jobs.

Education & health services is the largest employment sector at 30.9% of covered employment, followed by Manufacturing at 21.1%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 2.61%, below the Iowa state average.

Local economy
Unemployment (12-mo)
2.6%
−0.73 pp vs. state
County GDP
$810.6M
0.3% of state
Avg. annual pay
$53,069
Establishments
465

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

  • Education & health services 1,928 30.9%
  • Manufacturing 1,315 21.1%
  • Trade, transportation & utilities 1,066 17.1%
  • Leisure & hospitality 422 6.8%
  • Professional & business services 362 5.8%
  • Public administration 291 4.7%
  • Construction 187 3.0%
  • Financial activities 183 2.9%
  • Other services 92 1.5%
  • Natural resources & mining 59 0.9%
  • Information 50 0.8%

The sectors listed cover 95.4% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

BLS QCEW 2025

Housing
Home ownership
70.5%
−1.2 pp vs IA · 83rd of 99
Median gross rent
$705
−$267 vs IA · 92nd of 99
Owner-occupied
4,412
Renter-occupied
1,843

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Local economy in 3 reads
  • Concentrated

    Top three sectors employ 69% of the county workforce. Most panelists likely share employer relationships within these sectors, surface those connections early in voir dire before any institutional-defendant or sector-specific framing.

  • Wide wage spread

    Highest-paid sector (Manufacturing, $69,023/yr) pays 4.7× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $14,713/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

  • 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

Political composition

Consistently strongly Republican

Republican candidate carried this county in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (avg winning share: 70%). 'Strongly' threshold: ≥60% avg.

Page County was carried by the Republican candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 70.6% in 2024, 70.7% in 2020, 70.0% in 2016.

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 7,297 votes cast

  • Republican
  • Democratic
Presidential vote share by year
YearRepublicanDemocratic
201670.0%25.8%
202070.7%27.7%
202470.6%28.2%
  • Republican 5,153 70.6%
  • Democratic 2,060 28.2%
  • Other / third-party 84 1.2%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Family-majority, English-speaking

Family households are 57% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 2.5% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).

2.5% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, Vietnamese, Tagalog. Veterans account for 8.3% of the adult civilian population (1,012 individuals).

Languages spoken at home

97.5% speak only English at home

  • Spanish 156 1.1%
  • Vietnamese 59 0.4%
  • Tagalog 36 0.2%
  • German or other West Germanic 8 0.1%
  • Korean 8 0.1%
  • Arabic 2 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Household composition
Households
6,255
Family households
3,566
57.0% of households
Married couples w/ children
1,022
28.7% of families
Single-mother families
263
7.4% of families
Veterans
1,012
8.3% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Religious composition

46.7% overall adherence rate

  • Mainline Protestant 3,105 20.4%
  • Evangelical Protestant 2,627 17.3%
  • Catholic 688 4.5%
  • Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 385 2.5%
  • Black Protestant 300 2.0%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education
Health insured
95.2%
±1.3 pp
Uninsured
4.8%
±1.3 pp
52nd of 99
With a disability
17.5%
±1.9 pp
5th of 99
Bachelor's or higher
19.2%
±2 pp
−12.2 pp vs IA · 83rd of 99
Uninsured, under 65 (2024)
6.8%
90% interval 5.9%–7.7% · 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

Court infrastructure
Trial court
4th Judicial District Court
Judges
6 (District Court judges per Judicial Election District (general civil + felony criminal jurisdiction). District Associate, Associate Juvenile, and Magistrate judges (limited jurisdiction) are separately allocated and not counted here. Vintage 2026 iowacourts.gov directory; counts cross-checked against Iowa Code § 602.6201.)
Court seats
Atlantic, Audubon, Clarinda, Council Bluffs, Glenwood, Harlan, Logan, Red Oak, Sidney

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Court reference
Traffic safety context

Page totals, 2024 — the per-100k rate is based on 1 recorded death, too few to be statistically reliable

Traffic fatalities
1
8.18 per 100k adults (18+)
Fatal crashes
1

NHTSA FARS 2024

About this profile

This profile aggregates publicly available U.S. government statistics for Page County, Iowa to give trial attorneys venue context for jury selection. It describes the general population of the county, not the qualified jury wheel, and is not legal advice or a substitute for the court's juror records.

Sources as of: U.S. Census ACS 2024 · U.S. BLS 2026M07 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2025 · Election results 2024 · NHTSA FARS 2024 · US Religion Census 2020.

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