Jury Pool Profile

Lincoln County, Kentucky

Republican +61 (2024)

Population: 24,415
Median household income: $50,862
Unemployment: 5.6%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 22,717 93.0%
Black or African American alone 409 1.7%
Asian alone 73 0.3%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 2 0.0%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
Some other race alone 428 1.8%
Two or more races 786 3.2%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 498 2.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 41.9

Under 18 5,765 23.6%
18–24 1,783 7.3%
25–44 5,783 23.7%
45–64 6,481 26.5%
65 and over 4,603 18.9%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 5.6%; +1.1 pp vs. state
County GDP: $595.6M; 0.2% of state
Avg. annual pay: $44,735
Establishments: 504

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Trade, transportation & utilities 730 18.6%
Education & health services 656 16.7%
Professional & business services 406 10.4%
Manufacturing 374 9.5%
Leisure & hospitality 319 8.1%
Construction 223 5.7%
Public administration 171 4.4%
Financial activities 165 4.2%
Natural resources & mining 21 0.5%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 77.8%
Median gross rent: $730
Owner-occupied: 7,530
Renter-occupied: 2,154

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 11,034 votes cast

Republican 8,833 80.1%
Democratic 2,080 18.9%
Other / third-party 121 1.1%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

97.5% speak only English at home

Spanish 263 1.2%
German 134 0.6%
Other Asian/Pacific 77 0.3%
Other Indo-European 61 0.3%
French (incl. Cajun) 14 0.1%
Vietnamese 12 0.1%
Slavic languages 11 0.0%
Tagalog 1 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 9,684
Family households: 6,775; 70.0% of households
Married w/ children: 4,920
Single-mother households: 731
Veterans: 1,665; 8.9% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

53.1% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 10,923 45.0%
Mainline Protestant 1,318 5.4%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 299 1.2%
Black Protestant 252 1.0%
Catholic 99 0.4%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 94.4%
With a disability: 19.2%
Bachelor's or higher: 15.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 28th Judicial Circuit Court
Judges: 3 (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: Mount Vernon, Somerset, Stanford

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Kentucky statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 6; 32.17 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 6

NHTSA FARS 2023