Jury Pool Profile

Champaign County, Illinois

Democratic +24 (2024)

Population: 206,098
Median household income: $63,091
Unemployment: 4.1%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 136,542 66.3%
Black or African American alone 27,538 13.4%
Asian alone 22,008 10.7%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 322 0.2%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 67 0.0%
Some other race alone 4,031 2.0%
Two or more races 15,590 7.6%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 16,628 8.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 30.9

Under 18 39,730 19.3%
18–24 45,845 22.2%
25–44 52,080 25.3%
45–64 40,378 19.6%
65 and over 28,065 13.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.1%; -0.55 pp vs. state
County GDP: $15.4B; 1.35% of state
Avg. annual pay: $64,216
Establishments: 4,160

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 22,702 24.0%
Trade, transportation & utilities 14,860 15.7%
Leisure & hospitality 11,245 11.9%
Manufacturing 7,082 7.5%
Professional & business services 6,680 7.0%
Financial activities 3,893 4.1%
Construction 3,558 3.8%
Public administration 3,463 3.7%
Other services 2,294 2.4%
Information 1,965 2.1%
Natural resources & mining 386 0.4%
Unclassified 4 0.0%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 53.4%
Median gross rent: $1,018
Owner-occupied: 44,778
Renter-occupied: 38,999

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 88,627 votes cast

Democratic 54,314 61.3%
Republican 32,965 37.2%
Other / third-party 1,348 1.5%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

81.4% speak only English at home

Spanish 10,661 5.5%
Chinese 7,437 3.8%
Other Indo-European 4,931 2.5%
French (incl. Cajun) 2,903 1.5%
Other Asian/Pacific 2,591 1.3%
Korean 1,877 1.0%
Slavic languages 1,458 0.7%
Tagalog 1,289 0.7%
Other 1,030 0.5%
Vietnamese 836 0.4%
Arabic 780 0.4%
German 530 0.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 83,777
Family households: 42,896; 51.2% of households
Married w/ children: 32,210
Single-mother households: 4,596
Veterans: 7,180; 4.3% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

39.7% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 33,459 16.3%
Catholic 23,715 11.5%
Mainline Protestant 12,692 6.2%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 6,567 3.2%
Black Protestant 4,830 2.3%
Orthodox 424 0.2%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 95.0%
With a disability: 10.1%
Bachelor's or higher: 46.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 6th Judicial Circuit Court
Judges: 22 (Combined Circuit Judge + Associate Judge counts per circuit. Vintage 2024-2025; hand-sourced from per-circuit official court websites and the 2023-2024 Illinois Blue Book (ilsos.gov) judge roster, cross-referenced against the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts directory. Cook County total of ~400 reflects the Circuit Court of Cook County's combined elected Circuit Judges (~257) plus appointed Associate Judges (~145) — the largest unified trial court in the United States. Several smaller downstate circuits carry estimates (see source comments).)
Court seats: Clinton, Decatur, Monticello, Sullivan, Tuscola, Urbana

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Illinois statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 17; 10.22 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 14

NHTSA FARS 2023