Jury Pool Profile

Coles County, Illinois

Republican +28 (2024)

Population: 46,689
Median household income: $56,040
Unemployment: 3.9%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 42,170 90.3%
Black or African American alone 1,783 3.8%
Asian alone 691 1.5%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 23 0.0%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 2 0.0%
Some other race alone 335 0.7%
Two or more races 1,685 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,721 3.7%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 38.2

Under 18 8,521 18.3%
18–24 7,867 16.8%
25–44 10,885 23.3%
45–64 10,972 23.5%
65 and over 8,444 18.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.9%; -0.75 pp vs. state
County GDP: $3.5B; 0.31% of state
Avg. annual pay: $52,987
Establishments: 1,032

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 8,765 36.6%
Trade, transportation & utilities 3,759 15.7%
Professional & business services 3,074 12.8%
Leisure & hospitality 2,132 8.9%
Manufacturing 1,569 6.6%
Financial activities 841 3.5%
Construction 795 3.3%
Public administration 669 2.8%
Other services 501 2.1%
Information 387 1.6%
Natural resources & mining 156 0.7%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 60.4%
Median gross rent: $793
Owner-occupied: 12,279
Renter-occupied: 8,056

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 21,469 votes cast

Republican 13,606 63.4%
Democratic 7,495 34.9%
Other / third-party 368 1.7%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

95.9% speak only English at home

Spanish 715 1.6%
German 385 0.9%
Other Indo-European 203 0.5%
Other 169 0.4%
French (incl. Cajun) 92 0.2%
Other Asian/Pacific 75 0.2%
Tagalog 63 0.1%
Chinese 56 0.1%
Slavic languages 47 0.1%
Vietnamese 31 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 20,335
Family households: 11,688; 57.5% of households
Married w/ children: 8,666
Single-mother households: 1,041
Veterans: 2,522; 6.6% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

49.0% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 14,080 30.0%
Catholic 5,191 11.1%
Mainline Protestant 2,906 6.2%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 692 1.5%
Black Protestant 100 0.2%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 93.7%
With a disability: 16.3%
Bachelor's or higher: 27.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 5th Judicial Circuit Court
Judges: 8 (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: Charleston, Danville, Marshall, Paris, Toledo

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Illinois statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 5; 13.1 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 3

NHTSA FARS 2023