Jury Pool Profile
Fayette County, Kentucky
Democratic +18 (2024)
- Population
- 321,122
- Median household income
- $67,631
- Unemployment
- 3.8%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 224,558 69.9%
- Black or African American alone 46,225 14.4%
- Asian alone 13,385 4.2%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 745 0.2%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 48 0.0%
- Some other race alone 11,243 3.5%
- Two or more races 24,918 7.8%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 29,571 9.2%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 35.2
- Under 18 67,742 21.1%
- 18–24 43,838 13.7%
- 25–44 90,250 28.1%
- 45–64 73,098 22.8%
- 65 and over 46,194 14.4%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 3.8%
- -0.67 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $28.9B
- 9.79% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $64,489
- Establishments
- 15,142
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 56,767 27.8%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 36,346 17.8%
- Professional & business services 29,797 14.6%
- Leisure & hospitality 24,410 11.9%
- Manufacturing 11,026 5.4%
- Construction 10,816 5.3%
- Financial activities 9,536 4.7%
- Public administration 6,587 3.2%
- Other services 6,484 3.2%
- Information 2,584 1.3%
- Natural resources & mining 1,997 1.0%
- Unclassified 67 0.0%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 53.6%
- Median gross rent
- $1,101
- Owner-occupied
- 73,881
- Renter-occupied
- 63,922
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 143,762 votes cast
- Democratic 83,387 58.0%
- Republican 57,347 39.9%
- Other / third-party 3,028 2.1%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
85.1% speak only English at home
- Spanish 22,331 7.4%
- Other Indo-European 5,567 1.8%
- Other 3,738 1.2%
- Chinese 2,883 1.0%
- Other Asian/Pacific 2,709 0.9%
- Arabic 2,444 0.8%
- French (incl. Cajun) 2,002 0.7%
- Slavic languages 1,243 0.4%
- German 819 0.3%
- Korean 649 0.2%
- Tagalog 478 0.2%
- Vietnamese 251 0.1%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 137,803
- Family households
- 75,390
- 54.7% of households
- Married w/ children
- 53,823
- Single-mother households
- 8,240
- Veterans
- 13,857
- 5.5% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
48.4% overall adherence rate
- Evangelical Protestant 76,349 23.7%
- Mainline Protestant 28,650 8.9%
- Catholic 23,544 7.3%
- Black Protestant 14,672 4.5%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 12,378 3.8%
- Orthodox 644 0.2%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 93.2%
- With a disability
- 12.8%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 47.3%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 22nd Judicial Circuit Court
- Judges
- 9 (Circuit Court judges per circuit (general civil + felony criminal jurisdiction; civil amount-in-controversy > $5,000); District Court judges (limited jurisdiction) separate. Vintage 2026 kycourts.gov; shaded-bench counts per Wikipedia 'Kentucky Circuit Courts' judge-count map, with the three '6 or more' circuits (16th Kenton, 22nd Fayette, 30th Jefferson) hard-pinned to 6, 9, and 23 respectively per Wikipedia footnote 4. Mid-range single-county metro and exurban-cluster circuits are conservative midpoints; verify against KRS § 23A.040 before relying on exact counts.)
- Court seats
- Lexington
Traffic safety context
Kentucky statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 49
- 19.34 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 49
NHTSA FARS 2023