Jury Pool Profile
Stephenson County, Illinois
Republican +19 (2024)
- Population
- 44,042
- Median household income
- $61,943
- Unemployment
- 4.5%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 36,152 82.1%
- Black or African American alone 3,714 8.4%
- Asian alone 355 0.8%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 113 0.3%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
- Some other race alone 493 1.1%
- Two or more races 3,215 7.3%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2,335 5.3%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 45.2
- Under 18 9,395 21.3%
- 18–24 3,242 7.4%
- 25–44 9,316 21.2%
- 45–64 11,546 26.2%
- 65 and over 10,543 23.9%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 4.5%
- -0.09 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $2.5B
- 0.22% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $55,932
- Establishments
- 1,019
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 4,376 25.2%
- Manufacturing 3,278 18.9%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 2,587 14.9%
- Construction 1,623 9.3%
- Professional & business services 1,614 9.3%
- Leisure & hospitality 1,176 6.8%
- Financial activities 803 4.6%
- Natural resources & mining 588 3.4%
- Other services 535 3.1%
- Information 91 0.5%
- Public administration 17 0.1%
- Unclassified 2 0.0%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 71.0%
- Median gross rent
- $764
- Owner-occupied
- 13,824
- Renter-occupied
- 5,645
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 20,965 votes cast
- Republican 12,347 58.9%
- Democratic 8,278 39.5%
- Other / third-party 340 1.6%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
95.9% speak only English at home
- Spanish 939 2.3%
- Other Indo-European 219 0.5%
- Slavic languages 187 0.4%
- German 147 0.4%
- Tagalog 101 0.2%
- Korean 39 0.1%
- Chinese 28 0.1%
- Vietnamese 24 0.1%
- French (incl. Cajun) 14 0.0%
- Arabic 4 0.0%
- Other Asian/Pacific 1 0.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 19,469
- Family households
- 12,068
- 62.0% of households
- Married w/ children
- 9,231
- Single-mother households
- 1,156
- Veterans
- 2,426
- 7% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
60.1% overall adherence rate
- Catholic 9,467 21.2%
- Evangelical Protestant 9,317 20.9%
- Mainline Protestant 5,522 12.4%
- Black Protestant 1,850 4.1%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 585 1.3%
- Orthodox 100 0.2%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 94.8%
- With a disability
- 15.5%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 21.7%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 15th 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
- Dixon, Freeport, Galena, Mount Carroll, Oregon
This judicial district spans multiple countys.
Traffic safety context
Illinois statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 13
- 37.52 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 12
NHTSA FARS 2023