Jury Pool Profile
Rapides Parish, Louisiana
Republican +37 (2024)
- Population
- 128,470
- Median household income
- $55,946
- Unemployment
- 4.0%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 78,676 61.2%
- Black or African American alone 39,926 31.1%
- Asian alone 1,668 1.3%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 780 0.6%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 7 0.0%
- Some other race alone 1,523 1.2%
- Two or more races 5,890 4.6%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5,178 4.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 37.8
- Under 18 32,231 25.1%
- 18–24 10,540 8.2%
- 25–44 32,668 25.4%
- 45–64 31,597 24.6%
- 65 and over 21,434 16.7%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 4.0%
- -0.24 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $7.4B
- 2.25% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $51,777
- Establishments
- 4,093
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 16,429 29.1%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 10,712 19.0%
- Professional & business services 5,713 10.1%
- Leisure & hospitality 5,361 9.5%
- Manufacturing 3,643 6.5%
- Public administration 3,343 5.9%
- Construction 3,094 5.5%
- Financial activities 1,929 3.4%
- Other services 1,279 2.3%
- Natural resources & mining 712 1.3%
- Information 328 0.6%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 65.3%
- Median gross rent
- $942
- Owner-occupied
- 31,771
- Renter-occupied
- 16,889
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 53,395 votes cast
- Republican 36,171 67.7%
- Democratic 16,537 31.0%
- Other / third-party 687 1.3%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
94.8% speak only English at home
- Spanish 3,378 2.8%
- French (incl. Cajun) 575 0.5%
- Other Indo-European 510 0.4%
- Other Asian/Pacific 501 0.4%
- Arabic 445 0.4%
- Tagalog 228 0.2%
- Vietnamese 145 0.1%
- Other 134 0.1%
- German 112 0.1%
- Chinese 81 0.1%
- Slavic languages 80 0.1%
- Korean 15 0.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 48,660
- Family households
- 31,452
- 64.6% of households
- Married w/ children
- 20,246
- Single-mother households
- 5,324
- Veterans
- 7,897
- 8.3% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
73.5% overall adherence rate
- Evangelical Protestant 60,035 46.2%
- Catholic 18,081 13.9%
- Black Protestant 10,821 8.3%
- Mainline Protestant 4,483 3.4%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,108 1.6%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 91.1%
- With a disability
- 18.4%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 22.4%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 9th Judicial District Court
- Judges
- 7
- Court seats
- Rapides Parish Courthouse (Alexandria, LA)
Traffic safety context
Louisiana statewide totals, 2024 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 25
- 29.1 per 100k drivers
- Injuries
- 1,792
- 2088.4 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 25
- Licensed drivers
- 85,808
NHTSA FARS 2024