Jury Pool Profile

Caroline County, Maryland

Republican +38 (2024)

Population: 33,406
Median household income: $66,368
Unemployment: 3.8%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 24,762 74.1%
Black or African American alone 4,623 13.8%
Asian alone 256 0.8%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 347 1.0%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
Some other race alone 1,112 3.3%
Two or more races 2,306 6.9%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2,930 8.8%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 39.8

Under 18 7,926 23.7%
18–24 2,644 7.9%
25–44 8,153 24.4%
45–64 8,964 26.8%
65 and over 5,719 17.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.8%; -0.38 pp vs. state
County GDP: $1.6B; 0.29% of state
Avg. annual pay: $53,786
Establishments: 732

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Trade, transportation & utilities 2,414 26.1%
Education & health services 2,330 25.2%
Construction 1,064 11.5%
Manufacturing 893 9.7%
Public administration 689 7.5%
Leisure & hospitality 595 6.4%
Natural resources & mining 402 4.3%
Professional & business services 385 4.2%
Other services 288 3.1%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 71.9%
Median gross rent: $1,070
Owner-occupied: 8,753
Renter-occupied: 3,428

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 16,276 votes cast

Republican 11,053 67.9%
Democratic 4,860 29.9%
Other / third-party 363 2.2%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

91.3% speak only English at home

Spanish 2,051 6.5%
Other Indo-European 254 0.8%
Other 176 0.6%
French (incl. Cajun) 106 0.3%
Slavic languages 40 0.1%
Tagalog 29 0.1%
Other Asian/Pacific 26 0.1%
German 13 0.0%
Korean 7 0.0%
Chinese 7 0.0%
Arabic 3 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 12,181
Family households: 8,272; 67.9% of households
Married w/ children: 5,867
Single-mother households: 1,213
Veterans: 1,629; 6.4% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

35.5% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 3,581 10.8%
Mainline Protestant 3,536 10.6%
Catholic 3,358 10.1%
Black Protestant 1,346 4.0%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 14 0.0%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 92.9%
With a disability: 15.2%
Bachelor's or higher: 17.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 2nd Judicial Circuit Court
Judges: 6 (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: Centreville, Chestertown, Denton, Easton, Elkton

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Maryland statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 12; 47.1 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 8

NHTSA FARS 2023