Jury Pool Profile

Cecil County, Maryland

Republican +31 (2024)

Population: 104,366
Median household income: $91,146
Unemployment: 4.0%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 86,756 83.1%
Black or African American alone 7,374 7.1%
Asian alone 1,344 1.3%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 125 0.1%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 33 0.0%
Some other race alone 2,180 2.1%
Two or more races 6,554 6.3%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5,617 5.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 40.8

Under 18 23,376 22.4%
18–24 8,089 7.8%
25–44 25,737 24.7%
45–64 29,753 28.5%
65 and over 17,411 16.7%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.0%; -0.13 pp vs. state
County GDP: $7.2B; 1.31% of state
Avg. annual pay: $63,481
Establishments: 1,963

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Trade, transportation & utilities 8,943 24.4%
Education & health services 7,536 20.5%
Leisure & hospitality 5,565 15.2%
Manufacturing 4,616 12.6%
Public administration 3,865 10.5%
Professional & business services 2,099 5.7%
Other services 974 2.7%
Financial activities 598 1.6%
Information 105 0.3%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 75.3%
Median gross rent: $1,367
Owner-occupied: 30,252
Renter-occupied: 9,920

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 52,612 votes cast

Republican 33,871 64.4%
Democratic 17,628 33.5%
Other / third-party 1,113 2.1%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

93.6% speak only English at home

Spanish 3,116 3.2%
Other Indo-European 816 0.8%
Other 484 0.5%
German 454 0.5%
Other Asian/Pacific 402 0.4%
Chinese 350 0.4%
French (incl. Cajun) 227 0.2%
Slavic languages 156 0.2%
Tagalog 122 0.1%
Arabic 84 0.1%
Vietnamese 63 0.1%
Korean 24 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 40,172
Family households: 28,359; 70.6% of households
Married w/ children: 21,093
Single-mother households: 2,396
Veterans: 6,650; 8.2% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

29.8% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 11,993 11.6%
Mainline Protestant 6,477 6.2%
Catholic 6,045 5.8%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 4,226 4.1%
Black Protestant 2,178 2.1%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 96.2%
With a disability: 12.9%
Bachelor's or higher: 26.9%

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: 26; 32.1 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 24

NHTSA FARS 2023