Jury Pool Profile
McDonough County, Illinois
Republican +19 (2024)
- Population
- 27,102
- Median household income
- $50,434
- Unemployment
- 4.5%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 23,610 87.1%
- Black or African American alone 1,578 5.8%
- Asian alone 536 2.0%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 9 0.0%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 7 0.0%
- Some other race alone 316 1.2%
- Two or more races 1,046 3.9%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 935 3.4%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 35.1
- Under 18 4,853 17.9%
- 18–24 5,528 20.4%
- 25–44 5,934 21.9%
- 45–64 5,553 20.5%
- 65 and over 5,234 19.3%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 4.5%
- -0.16 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $1.5B
- 0.13% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $48,433
- Establishments
- 550
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 2,389 23.6%
- Manufacturing 1,640 16.2%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 1,564 15.5%
- Leisure & hospitality 1,118 11.0%
- Public administration 663 6.6%
- Professional & business services 396 3.9%
- Other services 282 2.8%
- Construction 272 2.7%
- Financial activities 262 2.6%
- Natural resources & mining 112 1.1%
- Information 81 0.8%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 62.1%
- Median gross rent
- $730
- Owner-occupied
- 7,304
- Renter-occupied
- 4,456
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 11,940 votes cast
- Republican 6,987 58.5%
- Democratic 4,736 39.7%
- Other / third-party 217 1.8%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
95.3% speak only English at home
- Spanish 472 1.8%
- Other Indo-European 218 0.8%
- Other 107 0.4%
- German 106 0.4%
- Other Asian/Pacific 99 0.4%
- Slavic languages 91 0.4%
- Chinese 47 0.2%
- French (incl. Cajun) 43 0.2%
- Tagalog 30 0.1%
- Korean 14 0.1%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 11,760
- Family households
- 5,781
- 49.2% of households
- Married w/ children
- 4,193
- Single-mother households
- 658
- Veterans
- 1,298
- 5.8% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
33.6% overall adherence rate
- Evangelical Protestant 3,577 13.1%
- Mainline Protestant 3,346 12.3%
- Catholic 1,244 4.6%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 890 3.3%
- Black Protestant 100 0.4%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 93.5%
- With a disability
- 14.6%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 31.8%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 9th Judicial Circuit Court
- Judges
- 9 (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
- Carthage, Galesburg, Lewistown, Macomb, Monmouth, Oquawka
This judicial district spans multiple countys.
Traffic safety context
Illinois statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 4
- 17.98 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 4
NHTSA FARS 2023