Jury Pool Profile

Pulaski County, Kentucky

Republican +65 (2024)

Population: 65,503
Median household income: $50,943
Unemployment: 5.0%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 61,935 94.6%
Black or African American alone 574 0.9%
Asian alone 556 0.8%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 128 0.2%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
Some other race alone 431 0.7%
Two or more races 1,879 2.9%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,948 3.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 42.2

Under 18 14,466 22.1%
18–24 4,652 7.1%
25–44 15,879 24.2%
45–64 17,854 27.3%
65 and over 12,652 19.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 5.0%; +0.55 pp vs. state
County GDP: $3.0B; 1.03% of state
Avg. annual pay: $48,057
Establishments: 2,166

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 6,691 25.5%
Trade, transportation & utilities 5,575 21.2%
Manufacturing 3,525 13.4%
Leisure & hospitality 2,517 9.6%
Professional & business services 1,973 7.5%
Construction 1,223 4.7%
Public administration 1,092 4.2%
Financial activities 936 3.6%
Other services 591 2.3%
Information 174 0.7%
Natural resources & mining 123 0.5%
Unclassified 35 0.1%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 71.9%
Median gross rent: $835
Owner-occupied: 18,627
Renter-occupied: 7,293

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 31,725 votes cast

Republican 26,051 82.1%
Democratic 5,351 16.9%
Other / third-party 323 1.0%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

97.0% speak only English at home

Spanish 1,004 1.6%
Other Asian/Pacific 204 0.3%
Other Indo-European 193 0.3%
German 191 0.3%
Slavic languages 87 0.1%
French (incl. Cajun) 39 0.1%
Chinese 30 0.0%
Vietnamese 28 0.0%
Tagalog 27 0.0%
Arabic 13 0.0%
Other 8 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 25,920
Family households: 17,219; 66.4% of households
Married w/ children: 12,350
Single-mother households: 1,746
Veterans: 3,731; 7.3% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

54.8% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 31,315 48.2%
Mainline Protestant 2,332 3.6%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,038 1.6%
Catholic 798 1.2%
Black Protestant 175 0.3%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 93.3%
With a disability: 21.7%
Bachelor's or higher: 17.9%

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: 17; 33.31 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 16

NHTSA FARS 2023