Jury Pool Profile

Barnstable County, Massachusetts

Democratic +21 (2024)

Population: 230,073
Median household income: $94,452
Unemployment: 5.7%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 200,101 87.0%
Black or African American alone 6,298 2.7%
Asian alone 3,553 1.5%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 962 0.4%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
Some other race alone 4,968 2.2%
Two or more races 14,191 6.2%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 8,178 3.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 55.1

Under 18 33,175 14.4%
18–24 14,886 6.5%
25–44 42,116 18.3%
45–64 65,662 28.5%
65 and over 74,234 32.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 5.7%; +1.15 pp vs. state
County GDP: $19.3B; 2.48% of state
Avg. annual pay: $64,707
Establishments: 9,789

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 21,676 22.5%
Trade, transportation & utilities 19,688 20.4%
Leisure & hospitality 19,400 20.1%
Professional & business services 10,030 10.4%
Construction 7,748 8.0%
Public administration 5,629 5.8%
Other services 3,625 3.8%
Financial activities 3,463 3.6%
Manufacturing 2,258 2.3%
Information 1,256 1.3%
Natural resources & mining 394 0.4%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 80.6%
Median gross rent: $1,596
Owner-occupied: 82,954
Renter-occupied: 20,027

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 147,848 votes cast

Democratic 88,129 59.6%
Republican 57,451 38.9%
Other / third-party 2,268 1.5%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

89.3% speak only English at home

Other Indo-European 10,751 4.8%
Spanish 4,596 2.1%
Slavic languages 1,979 0.9%
French (incl. Cajun) 1,974 0.9%
Other 1,241 0.6%
Chinese 1,195 0.5%
German 786 0.4%
Other Asian/Pacific 489 0.2%
Arabic 382 0.2%
Vietnamese 135 0.1%
Tagalog 132 0.1%
Korean 19 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 102,981
Family households: 64,023; 62.2% of households
Married w/ children: 51,221
Single-mother households: 3,424
Veterans: 14,891; 7.6% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

36.1% overall adherence rate

Catholic 54,830 23.9%
Mainline Protestant 14,348 6.3%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 6,691 2.9%
Evangelical Protestant 5,976 2.6%
Black Protestant 454 0.2%
Orthodox 395 0.2%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 97.2%
With a disability: 14.3%
Bachelor's or higher: 47.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: Barnstable County Superior Court
Judges: 3 (Superior Court Justice base assignments per county (general civil + felony criminal jurisdiction); vintage 2026 mass.gov/orgs/superior-court. Under Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 212, Justices may be reassigned across counties by the Chief Justice of the Superior Court Department; counts here reflect typical base allocations rather than a permanently-fixed roster. Other Trial Court departments (District Court, Boston Municipal Court, Probate and Family Court, Juvenile Court, Land Court, Housing Court) handle limited-jurisdiction matters and are not counted here.)
Court seats: Barnstable

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Massachusetts statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 12; 6.09 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 12

NHTSA FARS 2023