Jury Pool Profile

Pottawattamie County, Iowa

Republican +20 (2024)

Population: 93,407
Median household income: $71,446
Unemployment: 4.0%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 83,108 89.0%
Black or African American alone 1,709 1.8%
Asian alone 873 0.9%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 253 0.3%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 129 0.1%
Some other race alone 1,668 1.8%
Two or more races 5,667 6.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 8,127 8.7%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 40.1

Under 18 21,645 23.2%
18–24 7,960 8.5%
25–44 22,841 24.5%
45–64 23,814 25.5%
65 and over 17,147 18.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.0%; +0.53 pp vs. state
County GDP: $6.3B; 2.36% of state
Avg. annual pay: $56,397
Establishments: 2,746

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Trade, transportation & utilities 9,897 23.9%
Education & health services 9,303 22.5%
Leisure & hospitality 5,839 14.1%
Manufacturing 5,472 13.2%
Professional & business services 3,585 8.7%
Construction 2,340 5.7%
Public administration 1,767 4.3%
Financial activities 1,365 3.3%
Other services 777 1.9%
Information 624 1.5%
Natural resources & mining 227 0.5%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 70.3%
Median gross rent: $970
Owner-occupied: 26,403
Renter-occupied: 11,128

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 44,411 votes cast

Republican 26,335 59.3%
Democratic 17,468 39.3%
Other / third-party 608 1.4%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

93.7% speak only English at home

Spanish 4,452 5.0%
Chinese 213 0.2%
Other Indo-European 161 0.2%
Slavic languages 125 0.1%
Tagalog 112 0.1%
Other Asian/Pacific 108 0.1%
Vietnamese 91 0.1%
Other 72 0.1%
German 68 0.1%
Arabic 61 0.1%
French (incl. Cajun) 37 0.0%
Korean 21 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 37,531
Family households: 23,615; 62.9% of households
Married w/ children: 17,162
Single-mother households: 2,680
Veterans: 6,174; 8.6% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

33.2% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 10,129 10.8%
Mainline Protestant 9,664 10.3%
Catholic 9,561 10.2%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,528 1.6%
Orthodox 152 0.2%
Black Protestant 50 0.1%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 95.2%
With a disability: 15.8%
Bachelor's or higher: 23.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

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

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Iowa statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 13; 18.12 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 13

NHTSA FARS 2023