Jury Pool Profile

Starke County, Indiana

Republican +52 (2024)

Population: 23,300
Median household income: $62,933
Unemployment: 4.6%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 21,922 94.1%
Black or African American alone 100 0.4%
Asian alone 68 0.3%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 74 0.3%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
Some other race alone 292 1.3%
Two or more races 844 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 962 4.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 41.9

Under 18 5,319 22.8%
18–24 1,680 7.2%
25–44 5,408 23.2%
45–64 6,262 26.9%
65 and over 4,631 19.9%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.6%; +1.05 pp vs. state
County GDP: $690.4M; 0.13% of state
Avg. annual pay: $44,150
Establishments: 337

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 993 24.0%
Trade, transportation & utilities 804 19.4%
Manufacturing 636 15.4%
Professional & business services 496 12.0%
Leisure & hospitality 348 8.4%
Public administration 293 7.1%
Construction 139 3.4%
Financial activities 137 3.3%
Natural resources & mining 115 2.8%
Other services 97 2.3%
Information 77 1.9%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 83.7%
Median gross rent: $690
Owner-occupied: 7,334
Renter-occupied: 1,424

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 10,478 votes cast

Republican 7,889 75.3%
Democratic 2,436 23.2%
Other / third-party 153 1.5%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

96.8% speak only English at home

Spanish 252 1.1%
Other Indo-European 173 0.8%
German 131 0.6%
Slavic languages 125 0.6%
Tagalog 11 0.1%
Arabic 8 0.0%
Korean 7 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 8,758
Family households: 5,667; 64.7% of households
Married w/ children: 4,323
Single-mother households: 456
Veterans: 1,241; 6.9% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

27.2% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 3,197 13.7%
Catholic 2,224 9.5%
Mainline Protestant 918 3.9%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 7 0.0%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 93.5%
With a disability: 19.3%
Bachelor's or higher: 12.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: Starke Circuit Court
Judges: 2 (Combined Circuit + Superior Court trial-court judges per county (both have general civil + criminal jurisdiction); vintage 2026 Indiana Office of Judicial Administration Judicial Service Report, cross-checked against courts.in.gov per-county rosters. Counties with a count of 1 operate the Circuit Court only; larger counties add Superior Court judges with concurrent general jurisdiction. Marion County (Indianapolis) is by far the largest single-county bench in Indiana.)
Court seats: Knox

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Indiana statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 5; 27.81 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 5

NHTSA FARS 2023