Jury Pool Profile

Effingham County, Illinois

Republican +60 (2024)

Population: 34,505
Median household income: $75,380
Unemployment: 3.7%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 33,097 95.9%
Black or African American alone 226 0.7%
Asian alone 259 0.8%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 7 0.0%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
Some other race alone 290 0.8%
Two or more races 626 1.8%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 905 2.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 39.5

Under 18 8,348 24.2%
18–24 2,442 7.1%
25–44 8,610 25.0%
45–64 8,774 25.4%
65 and over 6,331 18.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.7%; -0.89 pp vs. state
County GDP: $3.1B; 0.27% of state
Avg. annual pay: $53,064
Establishments: 1,237

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Trade, transportation & utilities 5,696 24.5%
Education & health services 4,982 21.4%
Leisure & hospitality 3,818 16.4%
Manufacturing 2,957 12.7%
Construction 1,323 5.7%
Professional & business services 1,273 5.5%
Other services 954 4.1%
Financial activities 681 2.9%
Public administration 494 2.1%
Information 432 1.9%
Natural resources & mining 173 0.7%
Unclassified 1 0.0%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 78.1%
Median gross rent: $734
Owner-occupied: 10,954
Renter-occupied: 3,076

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 19,062 votes cast

Republican 15,124 79.3%
Democratic 3,617 19.0%
Other / third-party 321 1.7%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

97.0% speak only English at home

Spanish 693 2.1%
Other Indo-European 114 0.4%
German 61 0.2%
Tagalog 33 0.1%
French (incl. Cajun) 21 0.1%
Slavic languages 20 0.1%
Chinese 13 0.0%
Vietnamese 10 0.0%
Korean 5 0.0%
Other 1 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 14,030
Family households: 9,327; 66.5% of households
Married w/ children: 7,496
Single-mother households: 554
Veterans: 2,011; 7.7% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

57.5% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 10,018 28.9%
Catholic 7,385 21.3%
Mainline Protestant 2,001 5.8%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 543 1.6%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 95.0%
With a disability: 14.8%
Bachelor's or higher: 26.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 4th Judicial Circuit Court
Judges: 14 (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: Carlyle, Effingham, Hillsboro, Louisville, Newton, Salem, Shelbyville, Taylorville, Vandalia

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Illinois statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 9; 34.41 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 5

NHTSA FARS 2023