Jury Pool Profile

Leslie County, Kentucky

Republican +81 (2024)

Population: 10,261
Median household income: $40,176
Unemployment: 5.5%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 9,946 96.9%
Black or African American alone 54 0.5%
Asian alone 35 0.3%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 0 0.0%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
Some other race alone 0 0.0%
Two or more races 226 2.2%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 51 0.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 42.2

Under 18 2,194 21.4%
18–24 769 7.5%
25–44 2,609 25.4%
45–64 2,754 26.8%
65 and over 1,935 18.9%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 5.5%; +1 pp vs. state
County GDP: $196.8M; 0.07% of state
Avg. annual pay: $43,744
Establishments: 178

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 576 36.2%
Trade, transportation & utilities 192 12.1%
Public administration 179 11.3%
Natural resources & mining 94 5.9%
Leisure & hospitality 62 3.9%
Financial activities 44 2.8%
Unclassified 1 0.1%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 82.6%
Median gross rent: $520
Owner-occupied: 3,228
Renter-occupied: 681

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 4,357 votes cast

Republican 3,908 89.7%
Democratic 382 8.8%
Other / third-party 67 1.5%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

98.7% speak only English at home

German 66 0.7%
Tagalog 33 0.3%
Spanish 23 0.2%
Other Indo-European 2 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 3,909
Family households: 2,416; 61.8% of households
Married w/ children: 1,772
Single-mother households: 65
Veterans: 290; 3.6% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

30.9% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 2,618 24.9%
Mainline Protestant 627 6.0%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 97.8%
With a disability: 30.0%
Bachelor's or higher: 10.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 41st Judicial Circuit Court
Judges: 1 (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: Hyden, Manchester, McKee

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Kentucky statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 2; 24.79 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 2

NHTSA FARS 2023