Jury Pool Profile

Franklin County, Massachusetts

Democratic +38 (2024)

Population: 70,922
Median household income: $72,584
Unemployment: 4.5%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 63,431 89.4%
Black or African American alone 1,002 1.4%
Asian alone 1,361 1.9%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 80 0.1%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 9 0.0%
Some other race alone 1,254 1.8%
Two or more races 3,785 5.3%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3,691 5.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 47.3

Under 18 11,979 16.9%
18–24 4,781 6.7%
25–44 17,064 24.1%
45–64 20,125 28.4%
65 and over 16,973 23.9%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.5%; -0.06 pp vs. state
County GDP: $3.7B; 0.48% of state
Avg. annual pay: $54,261
Establishments: 2,581

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 8,454 33.2%
Trade, transportation & utilities 4,281 16.8%
Manufacturing 3,294 13.0%
Leisure & hospitality 2,376 9.3%
Public administration 1,907 7.5%
Professional & business services 1,518 6.0%
Construction 1,226 4.8%
Natural resources & mining 862 3.4%
Other services 685 2.7%
Financial activities 460 1.8%
Information 198 0.8%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 68.7%
Median gross rent: $1,169
Owner-occupied: 21,650
Renter-occupied: 9,848

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 42,054 votes cast

Democratic 28,305 67.3%
Republican 12,428 29.6%
Other / third-party 1,321 3.1%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

93.6% speak only English at home

Spanish 2,008 2.9%
Other Indo-European 719 1.1%
Chinese 404 0.6%
Other Asian/Pacific 260 0.4%
Slavic languages 256 0.4%
French (incl. Cajun) 248 0.4%
German 154 0.2%
Tagalog 83 0.1%
Other 72 0.1%
Korean 48 0.1%
Arabic 47 0.1%
Vietnamese 40 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 31,498
Family households: 18,325; 58.2% of households
Married w/ children: 13,440
Single-mother households: 1,703
Veterans: 3,986; 6.8% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

23.6% overall adherence rate

Catholic 9,238 13.0%
Mainline Protestant 3,012 4.2%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,633 3.7%
Evangelical Protestant 1,888 2.7%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 97.7%
With a disability: 17.0%
Bachelor's or higher: 40.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: Franklin County Superior Court
Judges: 2 (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: Greenfield

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Massachusetts statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 7; 11.88 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 7

NHTSA FARS 2023