Jury Pool Profile
Washington Parish, Louisiana
Republican +40 (2024)
- Population
- 45,238
- Median household income
- $42,776
- Unemployment
- 4.7%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 29,504 65.2%
- Black or African American alone 13,418 29.7%
- Asian alone 34 0.1%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 74 0.2%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
- Some other race alone 426 0.9%
- Two or more races 1,782 3.9%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,425 3.2%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 41
- Under 18 10,713 23.7%
- 18–24 3,519 7.8%
- 25–44 11,217 24.8%
- 45–64 11,402 25.2%
- 65 and over 8,387 18.5%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 4.7%
- +0.42 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $1.8B
- 0.54% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $46,079
- Establishments
- 896
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 3,632 32.6%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 1,858 16.7%
- Manufacturing 1,298 11.7%
- Professional & business services 1,200 10.8%
- Leisure & hospitality 785 7.1%
- Construction 760 6.8%
- Public administration 416 3.7%
- Financial activities 306 2.7%
- Natural resources & mining 184 1.7%
- Other services 148 1.3%
- Information 46 0.4%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 69.4%
- Median gross rent
- $772
- Owner-occupied
- 12,247
- Renter-occupied
- 5,404
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 18,455 votes cast
- Republican 12,846 69.6%
- Democratic 5,411 29.3%
- Other / third-party 198 1.1%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
96.5% speak only English at home
- Spanish 833 2.0%
- French (incl. Cajun) 299 0.7%
- German 151 0.4%
- Other Asian/Pacific 61 0.1%
- Slavic languages 47 0.1%
- Arabic 31 0.1%
- Vietnamese 29 0.1%
- Other Indo-European 7 0.0%
- Chinese 6 0.0%
- Other 5 0.0%
- Tagalog 2 0.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 17,651
- Family households
- 11,314
- 64.1% of households
- Married w/ children
- 6,835
- Single-mother households
- 2,058
- Veterans
- 2,433
- 7.1% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
53.7% overall adherence rate
- Evangelical Protestant 16,165 35.6%
- Black Protestant 3,448 7.6%
- Catholic 2,387 5.3%
- Mainline Protestant 1,595 3.5%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 828 1.8%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 92.2%
- With a disability
- 23.5%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 12.7%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 22nd Judicial District Court
- Judges
- 12
- Court seats
- St. Tammany Parish Courthouse (Covington, LA), Washington Parish Courthouse (Franklinton, LA)
This judicial district spans multiple parishs.
Traffic safety context
Louisiana statewide totals, 2024 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 10
- 34.7 per 100k drivers
- Injuries
- 389
- 1351.3 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 8
- Licensed drivers
- 28,788
NHTSA FARS 2024