Jury Pool Profile
Hampshire County, Massachusetts
Democratic +42 (2024)
- Population
- 156,595
- Median household income
- $86,391
- Unemployment
- 4.5%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 130,409 83.3%
- Black or African American alone 3,647 2.3%
- Asian alone 7,889 5.0%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 153 0.1%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 105 0.1%
- Some other race alone 3,384 2.2%
- Two or more races 11,008 7.0%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 11,259 7.2%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 38.7
- Under 18 23,349 14.9%
- 18–24 33,254 21.2%
- 25–44 31,964 20.4%
- 45–64 37,757 24.1%
- 65 and over 30,271 19.3%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 4.5%
- -0.08 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $10.4B
- 1.33% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $62,006
- Establishments
- 4,928
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 22,557 34.3%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 10,764 16.4%
- Leisure & hospitality 6,634 10.1%
- Professional & business services 4,104 6.2%
- Public administration 3,087 4.7%
- Manufacturing 2,743 4.2%
- Construction 2,672 4.1%
- Other services 2,090 3.2%
- Financial activities 1,559 2.4%
- Information 823 1.3%
- Natural resources & mining 481 0.7%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 68.8%
- Median gross rent
- $1,332
- Owner-occupied
- 42,489
- Renter-occupied
- 19,281
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 84,345 votes cast
- Democratic 58,617 69.5%
- Republican 23,256 27.6%
- Other / third-party 2,472 2.9%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
87.4% speak only English at home
- Spanish 6,723 4.4%
- Other Indo-European 3,388 2.2%
- Chinese 2,270 1.5%
- French (incl. Cajun) 1,362 0.9%
- Slavic languages 1,308 0.9%
- Other Asian/Pacific 1,057 0.7%
- German 796 0.5%
- Other 649 0.4%
- Korean 511 0.3%
- Vietnamese 439 0.3%
- Arabic 355 0.2%
- Tagalog 156 0.1%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 61,770
- Family households
- 36,287
- 58.7% of households
- Married w/ children
- 27,673
- Single-mother households
- 3,090
- Veterans
- 7,532
- 5.7% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
24.0% overall adherence rate
- Catholic 21,616 13.3%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 8,886 5.5%
- Mainline Protestant 6,647 4.1%
- Evangelical Protestant 1,337 0.8%
- Orthodox 300 0.2%
- Black Protestant 192 0.1%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 98.0%
- With a disability
- 12.1%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 51.1%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- Hampshire 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
- Northampton
Traffic safety context
Massachusetts statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 9
- 6.75 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 9
NHTSA FARS 2023