Jury Pool Profile

White County, Illinois

Republican +59 (2024)

Population: 13,708
Median household income: $53,097
Unemployment: 4.6%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 13,196 96.3%
Black or African American alone 90 0.7%
Asian alone 30 0.2%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 5 0.0%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 3 0.0%
Some other race alone 77 0.6%
Two or more races 307 2.2%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 205 1.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 44.4

Under 18 2,992 21.8%
18–24 839 6.1%
25–44 3,122 22.8%
45–64 3,579 26.1%
65 and over 3,176 23.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.6%; -0.04 pp vs. state
County GDP: $724.4M; 0.06% of state
Avg. annual pay: $49,671
Establishments: 343

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Trade, transportation & utilities 1,151 27.4%
Education & health services 985 23.4%
Natural resources & mining 478 11.4%
Leisure & hospitality 300 7.1%
Public administration 258 6.1%
Financial activities 206 4.9%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 76.3%
Median gross rent: $706
Owner-occupied: 4,324
Renter-occupied: 1,345

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 7,064 votes cast

Republican 5,586 79.1%
Democratic 1,390 19.7%
Other / third-party 88 1.2%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

98.7% speak only English at home

Spanish 76 0.6%
German 53 0.4%
Other 14 0.1%
Chinese 10 0.1%
Slavic languages 7 0.1%
Korean 4 0.0%
Other Indo-European 2 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 5,669
Family households: 3,539; 62.4% of households
Married w/ children: 2,611
Single-mother households: 407
Veterans: 857; 8% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

66.7% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 7,891 56.9%
Mainline Protestant 936 6.7%
Catholic 290 2.1%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 108 0.8%
Black Protestant 30 0.2%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 95.1%
With a disability: 21.3%
Bachelor's or higher: 14.9%

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: 0; 0 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 0

NHTSA FARS 2023