Jury Pool Profile
Franklin County, Illinois
Republican +50 (2024)
- Population
- 37,541
- Median household income
- $53,471
- Unemployment
- 5.0%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 35,597 94.8%
- Black or African American alone 168 0.4%
- Asian alone 139 0.4%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 30 0.1%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
- Some other race alone 196 0.5%
- Two or more races 1,411 3.8%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 709 1.9%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 43.4
- Under 18 8,323 22.2%
- 18–24 2,675 7.1%
- 25–44 8,620 23.0%
- 45–64 10,124 27.0%
- 65 and over 7,799 20.8%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 5.0%
- +0.4 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $1.4B
- 0.12% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $46,819
- Establishments
- 705
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 2,417 26.6%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 1,797 19.8%
- Leisure & hospitality 1,124 12.4%
- Public administration 836 9.2%
- Financial activities 545 6.0%
- Manufacturing 542 6.0%
- Construction 502 5.5%
- Professional & business services 466 5.1%
- Natural resources & mining 340 3.7%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 74.8%
- Median gross rent
- $771
- Owner-occupied
- 12,060
- Renter-occupied
- 4,070
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 17,685 votes cast
- Republican 13,200 74.6%
- Democratic 4,257 24.1%
- Other / third-party 228 1.3%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
97.5% speak only English at home
- Spanish 405 1.1%
- German 187 0.5%
- Other Indo-European 91 0.3%
- Vietnamese 60 0.2%
- French (incl. Cajun) 58 0.2%
- Tagalog 37 0.1%
- Slavic languages 24 0.1%
- Arabic 16 0.0%
- Other 8 0.0%
- Other Asian/Pacific 6 0.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 16,130
- Family households
- 9,999
- 62.0% of households
- Married w/ children
- 7,289
- Single-mother households
- 781
- Veterans
- 2,492
- 8.5% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
47.6% overall adherence rate
- Evangelical Protestant 14,685 38.8%
- Mainline Protestant 1,863 4.9%
- Catholic 590 1.6%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 387 1.0%
- Black Protestant 376 1.0%
- Orthodox 92 0.2%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 92.5%
- With a disability
- 20.1%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 17.1%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 2nd 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
- Albion, Benton, Carmi, Elizabethtown, Fairfield, Lawrenceville, McLeansboro, Mount Carmel, Mount Vernon, Olney, Robinson, Shawneetown
This judicial district spans multiple countys.
Traffic safety context
Illinois statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 9
- 30.8 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 7
NHTSA FARS 2023