Jury Pool Profile

Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Democratic +40 (2024)

Population: 1,622,896
Median household income: $126,779
Unemployment: 4.4%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 1,119,143 69.0%
Black or African American alone 81,701 5.0%
Asian alone 213,947 13.2%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 3,038 0.2%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 639 0.0%
Some other race alone 67,932 4.2%
Two or more races 136,496 8.4%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 145,868 9.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 38.9

Under 18 318,468 19.6%
18–24 155,410 9.6%
25–44 469,480 28.9%
45–64 419,948 25.9%
65 and over 259,590 16.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.4%; -0.18 pp vs. state
County GDP: $240.7B; 30.91% of state
Avg. annual pay: $113,704
Establishments: 58,457

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Professional & business services 246,728 26.6%
Education & health services 233,366 25.2%
Trade, transportation & utilities 125,156 13.5%
Leisure & hospitality 77,012 8.3%
Manufacturing 67,086 7.2%
Construction 45,270 4.9%
Information 39,012 4.2%
Financial activities 34,419 3.7%
Public administration 28,660 3.1%
Other services 25,283 2.7%
Natural resources & mining 3,723 0.4%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 61.6%
Median gross rent: $2,126
Owner-occupied: 388,864
Renter-occupied: 242,075

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 809,513 votes cast

Democratic 554,471 68.5%
Republican 235,118 29.0%
Other / third-party 19,924 2.5%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

71.7% speak only English at home

Other Indo-European 132,730 8.6%
Spanish 98,772 6.4%
Chinese 59,923 3.9%
Other Asian/Pacific 40,038 2.6%
French (incl. Cajun) 27,272 1.8%
Slavic languages 20,659 1.3%
Other 19,716 1.3%
Arabic 10,855 0.7%
Vietnamese 9,837 0.6%
Korean 7,909 0.5%
German 6,604 0.4%
Tagalog 2,093 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 630,939
Family households: 399,401; 63.3% of households
Married w/ children: 316,501
Single-mother households: 26,099
Veterans: 45,564; 3.5% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

54.1% overall adherence rate

Catholic 642,062 39.3%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 112,243 6.9%
Mainline Protestant 52,513 3.2%
Evangelical Protestant 50,564 3.1%
Orthodox 21,951 1.3%
Black Protestant 3,198 0.2%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 97.6%
With a disability: 9.8%
Bachelor's or higher: 59.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: Middlesex County Superior Court
Judges: 15 (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: Cambridge, Lowell

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Massachusetts statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 43; 3.3 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 40

NHTSA FARS 2023