Jury Pool Profile
Perry County, Illinois
Republican +52 (2024)
- Population
- 20,810
- Median household income
- $59,286
- Unemployment
- 4.9%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 18,000 86.5%
- Black or African American alone 1,661 8.0%
- Asian alone 135 0.6%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 15 0.1%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
- Some other race alone 251 1.2%
- Two or more races 748 3.6%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 731 3.5%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 42.2
- Under 18 4,060 19.5%
- 18–24 1,661 8.0%
- 25–44 5,634 27.1%
- 45–64 5,330 25.6%
- 65 and over 4,125 19.8%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 4.9%
- +0.31 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $873.3M
- 0.08% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $50,313
- Establishments
- 328
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 1,489 32.2%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 887 19.2%
- Manufacturing 489 10.6%
- Leisure & hospitality 394 8.5%
- Public administration 265 5.7%
- Financial activities 188 4.1%
- Other services 169 3.7%
- Construction 142 3.1%
- Professional & business services 105 2.3%
- Natural resources & mining 45 1.0%
- Information 10 0.2%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 78.9%
- Median gross rent
- $714
- Owner-occupied
- 6,310
- Renter-occupied
- 1,684
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 9,241 votes cast
- Republican 6,949 75.2%
- Democratic 2,146 23.2%
- Other / third-party 146 1.6%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
96.5% speak only English at home
- Spanish 461 2.3%
- Other Indo-European 117 0.6%
- German 62 0.3%
- Slavic languages 20 0.1%
- Chinese 10 0.1%
- Vietnamese 8 0.0%
- Other Asian/Pacific 8 0.0%
- Tagalog 1 0.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 7,994
- Family households
- 5,149
- 64.4% of households
- Married w/ children
- 3,861
- Single-mother households
- 533
- Veterans
- 1,369
- 8.2% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
44.0% overall adherence rate
- Evangelical Protestant 5,276 25.2%
- Catholic 2,098 10.0%
- Mainline Protestant 1,651 7.9%
- Black Protestant 192 0.9%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 96.3%
- With a disability
- 20.7%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 12.3%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 24th Judicial Circuit Court
- Judges
- 8 (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
- Chester, Nashville, Pinckneyville, Waterloo
This judicial district spans multiple countys.
Traffic safety context
Illinois statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 1
- 5.97 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 1
NHTSA FARS 2023