Jury Pool Profile

Kankakee County, Illinois

Republican +21 (2024)

Population: 106,833
Median household income: $68,325
Unemployment: 5.6%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 79,585 74.5%
Black or African American alone 15,612 14.6%
Asian alone 1,017 1.0%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 573 0.5%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
Some other race alone 3,408 3.2%
Two or more races 6,638 6.2%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 12,948 12.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 39

Under 18 24,569 23.0%
18–24 10,458 9.8%
25–44 26,153 24.5%
45–64 27,008 25.3%
65 and over 18,645 17.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 5.6%; +0.96 pp vs. state
County GDP: $8.5B; 0.74% of state
Avg. annual pay: $55,890
Establishments: 2,200

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 12,149 28.8%
Trade, transportation & utilities 8,553 20.3%
Manufacturing 6,674 15.8%
Leisure & hospitality 4,112 9.7%
Professional & business services 3,254 7.7%
Construction 1,611 3.8%
Public administration 1,423 3.4%
Financial activities 1,173 2.8%
Other services 1,141 2.7%
Natural resources & mining 436 1.0%
Information 259 0.6%
Unclassified 2 0.0%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 68.8%
Median gross rent: $1,075
Owner-occupied: 28,124
Renter-occupied: 12,771

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 47,515 votes cast

Republican 28,285 59.5%
Democratic 18,399 38.7%
Other / third-party 831 1.7%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

89.5% speak only English at home

Spanish 9,112 9.1%
Other Indo-European 295 0.3%
French (incl. Cajun) 287 0.3%
Tagalog 206 0.2%
German 187 0.2%
Slavic languages 127 0.1%
Other 108 0.1%
Korean 84 0.1%
Vietnamese 78 0.1%
Arabic 65 0.1%
Chinese 26 0.0%
Other Asian/Pacific 22 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 40,895
Family households: 26,125; 63.9% of households
Married w/ children: 18,222
Single-mother households: 3,016
Veterans: 5,741; 7% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

47.8% overall adherence rate

Catholic 22,253 20.7%
Evangelical Protestant 16,052 14.9%
Mainline Protestant 6,522 6.1%
Black Protestant 4,992 4.6%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,429 1.3%
Orthodox 100 0.1%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 94.4%
With a disability: 14.8%
Bachelor's or higher: 20.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 21st Judicial Circuit Court
Judges: 10 (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: Kankakee, Watseka

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Illinois statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 14; 17.02 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 13

NHTSA FARS 2023