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Calvert County, Maryland

Republican +11.0 (2024)
County seat
Prince Frederick
Judicial district
7th Judicial Circuit Court
Population (July 2025 estimate)
94,484
Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 94,313.

At a glance

Calvert County is a 94,484-person venue. The county population is 75% White and 12% Black (Census race-alone categories). Median household income is $121,798, $18,963 above the MD state median of $102,835; 37.0% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 5.9% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, most commonly Spanish and Tagalog. The largest employment sector is Education & health services, at 28.2% of covered employment, average pay $59,844/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.67%, below the 4.3% state average. The county carried the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking 52% to 57% of the vote across the three.

Population
94,313
Median household income
$133,922
Unemployment
3.7%

Who sits on a jury?

Predominantly White

≥70% White (race-alone) and <20% Black. This county: 75% / 12%.

Calvert County has a population of 94,313, with a median age of 40.8. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 75.0%; Black residents 12.2%. Independently, 5.2% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The median household earns $121,798; 37.0% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 5.8% live below the federal poverty line.

Race & ethnicity
  • White (non-Hispanic) 69,426 73.6%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4,863 5.2%
  • Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 11,267 11.9%
  • Asian (non-Hispanic) 1,804 1.9%
  • Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 6,271 6.6%
  • American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 93 0.1%
  • Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 35 0.0%
  • Some other race (non-Hispanic) 554 0.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Age distribution

Median age 40.8

  • Under 18 21,796 23.1%
  • 18–24 7,309 7.7%
  • 25–44 23,573 25.0%
  • 45–64 26,233 27.8%
  • 65 and over 15,402 16.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Income & poverty
Median household income
$121,798
90% interval $115,187–$128,409
+$18,963 vs MD · 5th of 24
Below poverty line
5.8%
90% interval 4.4%–7.2%
−3.4 pp vs MD · 21st of 24

U.S. Census SAIPE 2024

Economic context

Healthcare & education anchored

Largest sector in BLS QCEW, even counting every withheld job toward the other sectors: Education & health services, about 28% of covered jobs.

Education & health services is the largest employment sector at 28.2% of covered employment, followed by Trade, transportation & utilities at 22.8%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.67%, below the Maryland state average.

Local economy
Unemployment (12-mo)
3.7%
−0.63 pp vs. state
County GDP
$6.2B
1.14% of state
Avg. annual pay
$62,735
Establishments
2,052

U.S. BLS 2026M07 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2025

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

  • Education & health services 6,360 28.2%
  • Trade, transportation & utilities 5,132 22.8%
  • Leisure & hospitality 3,274 14.5%
  • Professional & business services 1,993 8.8%
  • Construction 1,736 7.7%
  • Other services 968 4.3%
  • Public administration 590 2.6%

The sectors listed cover 89.0% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

BLS QCEW 2025

Housing
Home ownership
87.2%
+19.6 pp vs MD · 1st of 24
Median gross rent
$1,759
+$54 vs MD · 7th of 24
Owner-occupied
29,183
Renter-occupied
4,282

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Local economy in 3 reads
  • Concentrated

    Top three sectors employ 66% of the county workforce. Most panelists likely share employer relationships within these sectors, surface those connections early in voir dire before any institutional-defendant or sector-specific framing.

  • Moderate wage spread

    Highest-paid sector (Public administration, $99,864/yr) pays 3.7× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $26,799/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

  • Mixed business scale

    Average establishment employs 11 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

BLS QCEW 2025

Largest employers

Principal employers by headcount

2 of the top 5 employers on this list (6 of the listed 15) are in education & health services, accounting for 4,422 employees on this list. So education & health services is the largest sector by employment here, but most of the county's five biggest named employers sit outside it. A panelist who works somewhere you recognize is probably not working where most of this county works; ask where they work before assuming either pattern fits them.

# Employer Sector Employees
1 Calvert County Public Schools Education: Public Educational Services 2,307
2 Calvert County Government Government: Public Administration 1,362
3 CalvertHealth Medical Center Healthcare: Medical & Healthcare Services 1,283
4 Constellation: Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant Energy & Utilities: Nuclear Power Generation 660
5 Giant Food (Dunkirk, Prince Frederick & Lusby) Retail: Grocery Retail 375
6 Wal-Mart (Dunkirk & Prince Frederick) Retail: Consumer Goods 326
7 Green Tree Health Care (Solomons Nursing and Rehabilitation Center & The Hermitage of Solomons) Healthcare: Long-Term Care, Nursing Care & Assisted Living 261
8 Safeway (Dunkirk & Prince Frederick) Retail: Grocery Retail 231
9 The Gott Company, Inc.: Q-Dog Fuel, Fastop, Magic Tunnel Car Wash Energy & Retail: Fuel, Convenience Stores, Car Wash 206
10 Berkshire Hathaway Energy Company: Cove Point LNG Trade, transportation & utilities 205

Showing 10 of 22 employers on the published list(9,022 employees total).

Source: Calvert County Department of Economic Development, 'Major Employers' web page, 'Major Local Employers and Approximate Number of Employees', updated February 2026. Counts are employer-reported to a voluntary list, and some rows combine an employer's locations. Ranks are ours, in the source's printed order. (2026)

Political composition

Consistently Republican

Republican candidate carried this county in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (avg winning share: 54%). 'Strongly' threshold: ≥60% avg.

Calvert County was carried by the Republican candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 54.5% in 2024, 51.6% in 2020, 56.8% in 2016.

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 53,882 votes cast

  • Republican
  • Democratic
Presidential vote share by year
YearRepublicanDemocratic
201656.8%38.4%
202051.6%46.0%
202454.5%43.5%
  • Republican 29,361 54.5%
  • Democratic 23,438 43.5%
  • Other / third-party 1,083 2.0%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Family-dominant, English-speaking

Family households are 75% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 5.9% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).

5.9% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, Tagalog, German or other West Germanic. Veterans account for 11.3% of the adult civilian population (8,058 individuals).

Languages spoken at home

94.1% speak only English at home

  • Spanish 2,400 2.7%
  • Tagalog 388 0.4%
  • German or other West Germanic 303 0.3%
  • French, Haitian, or Cajun 277 0.3%
  • Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 219 0.2%
  • Chinese 183 0.2%
  • Vietnamese 39 0.0%
  • Korean 10 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Household composition
Households
33,465
Family households
25,206
75.3% of households
Married couples w/ children
8,969
35.6% of families
Single-mother families
1,206
4.8% of families
Veterans
8,058
11.3% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Religious composition

41.2% overall adherence rate

  • Catholic 20,272 21.8%
  • Evangelical Protestant 7,196 7.8%
  • Mainline Protestant 6,813 7.3%
  • Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 3,730 4.0%
  • Black Protestant 210 0.2%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education
Health insured
97.0%
±0.6 pp
Uninsured
3.0%
±0.6 pp
23rd of 24
With a disability
10.8%
±0.9 pp
19th of 24
Bachelor's or higher
37.0%
±1.9 pp
−6.4 pp vs MD · 11th of 24
Uninsured, under 65 (2024)
4.1%
90% interval 3.7%–4.5% · Census SAHIE

The under-65 uninsured rate is not comparable to the ACS insurance figures, which cover all ages.

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Court infrastructure

Court infrastructure
Trial court
7th Judicial Circuit Court
Judges
28 (Circuit Court judges per circuit (general civil + criminal jurisdiction); District Court of Maryland judges (limited jurisdiction, no jury trials) separate. Vintage 2026 mdcourts.gov; counts approximate statutory allocations per Md. Code Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 1-503.)
Court seats
La Plata, Leonardtown, Prince Frederick, Upper Marlboro

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Court reference
Traffic safety context

Calvert totals, 2024 — the per-100k rate is based on 14 recorded deaths, too few to be statistically reliable

Traffic fatalities
14
19.31 per 100k adults (18+)
Fatal crashes
14

NHTSA FARS 2024

About this profile

This profile aggregates publicly available U.S. government statistics for Calvert County, Maryland to give trial attorneys venue context for jury selection. It describes the general population of the county, not the qualified jury wheel, and is not legal advice or a substitute for the court's juror records.

Sources as of: U.S. Census ACS 2024 · U.S. BLS 2026M07 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2025 · Election results 2024 · NHTSA FARS 2024 · US Religion Census 2020.

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