Jury Pool Profile

Hamilton County, Illinois

Republican +63 (2024)

Population: 7,972
Median household income: $61,520
Unemployment: 4.6%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 7,654 96.0%
Black or African American alone 4 0.1%
Asian alone 69 0.9%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 4 0.1%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 37 0.5%
Some other race alone 39 0.5%
Two or more races 165 2.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 107 1.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 43.5

Under 18 1,812 22.7%
18–24 530 6.6%
25–44 1,821 22.8%
45–64 2,042 25.6%
65 and over 1,767 22.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.6%; -0.04 pp vs. state
County GDP: $478.3M; 0.04% of state
Avg. annual pay: $54,483
Establishments: 210

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 547 26.6%
Natural resources & mining 533 25.9%
Trade, transportation & utilities 332 16.1%
Leisure & hospitality 139 6.8%
Manufacturing 97 4.7%
Other services 91 4.4%
Construction 69 3.4%
Professional & business services 49 2.4%
Financial activities 42 2.0%
Information 37 1.8%
Public administration 11 0.5%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 78.3%
Median gross rent: $566
Owner-occupied: 2,622
Renter-occupied: 728

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 4,181 votes cast

Republican 3,385 81.0%
Democratic 739 17.7%
Other / third-party 57 1.4%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

97.7% speak only English at home

German 82 1.1%
Spanish 39 0.5%
Slavic languages 17 0.2%
Tagalog 12 0.2%
Other Asian/Pacific 12 0.2%
Other Indo-European 11 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 3,350
Family households: 2,122; 63.3% of households
Married w/ children: 1,581
Single-mother households: 122
Veterans: 462; 7.5% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

52.6% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 3,577 44.8%
Catholic 395 4.9%
Mainline Protestant 158 2.0%
Black Protestant 76 1.0%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 90.9%
With a disability: 20.3%
Bachelor's or higher: 18.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

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

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Illinois statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 7; 113.64 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 4

NHTSA FARS 2023