Jury Pool Profile

DeKalb County, Illinois

Democratic +2 (2024)

Population: 100,512
Median household income: $69,022
Unemployment: 4.5%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 76,672 76.3%
Black or African American alone 7,815 7.8%
Asian alone 2,139 2.1%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 440 0.4%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 31 0.0%
Some other race alone 4,643 4.6%
Two or more races 8,772 8.7%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 14,075 14.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 32.6

Under 18 21,906 21.8%
18–24 18,291 18.2%
25–44 25,180 25.1%
45–64 21,439 21.3%
65 and over 13,696 13.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.5%; -0.15 pp vs. state
County GDP: $5.7B; 0.49% of state
Avg. annual pay: $56,896
Establishments: 1,988

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 9,061 25.0%
Trade, transportation & utilities 8,636 23.8%
Leisure & hospitality 3,419 9.4%
Manufacturing 3,364 9.3%
Construction 2,024 5.6%
Professional & business services 1,785 4.9%
Public administration 1,408 3.9%
Other services 1,241 3.4%
Financial activities 843 2.3%
Information 671 1.8%
Natural resources & mining 399 1.1%
Unclassified 2 0.0%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 60.9%
Median gross rent: $1,041
Owner-occupied: 23,927
Renter-occupied: 15,387

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 47,186 votes cast

Democratic 23,648 50.1%
Republican 22,716 48.1%
Other / third-party 822 1.7%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

88.0% speak only English at home

Spanish 7,248 7.6%
Other Indo-European 908 1.0%
Arabic 886 0.9%
Slavic languages 642 0.7%
Tagalog 464 0.5%
Other Asian/Pacific 363 0.4%
Other 262 0.3%
Chinese 163 0.2%
Vietnamese 146 0.2%
French (incl. Cajun) 133 0.1%
German 126 0.1%
Korean 19 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 39,314
Family households: 23,627; 60.1% of households
Married w/ children: 16,766
Single-mother households: 3,049
Veterans: 4,024; 5.1% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

53.2% overall adherence rate

Catholic 25,409 25.3%
Mainline Protestant 11,755 11.7%
Evangelical Protestant 8,701 8.7%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 6,779 6.8%
Black Protestant 700 0.7%
Orthodox 100 0.1%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 95.2%
With a disability: 11.0%
Bachelor's or higher: 32.7%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 23rd Judicial Circuit Court
Judges: 12 (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: Sycamore, Yorkville

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Illinois statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 16; 20.35 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 15

NHTSA FARS 2023