Jury Pool Profile
Charles County, Maryland
Democratic +41 (2024)
- Population
- 168,710
- Median household income
- $120,592
- Unemployment
- 4.2%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 59,708 35.4%
- Black or African American alone 83,046 49.2%
- Asian alone 5,439 3.2%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 790 0.5%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 72 0.0%
- Some other race alone 4,397 2.6%
- Two or more races 15,258 9.0%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 12,648 7.5%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 38.8
- Under 18 40,477 24.0%
- 18–24 14,041 8.3%
- 25–44 44,130 26.2%
- 45–64 47,954 28.4%
- 65 and over 22,108 13.1%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 4.2%
- +0.02 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $8.7B
- 1.59% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $60,436
- Establishments
- 3,283
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 11,074 25.7%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 9,966 23.1%
- Leisure & hospitality 5,970 13.9%
- Public administration 5,661 13.1%
- Professional & business services 3,472 8.1%
- Construction 2,894 6.7%
- Other services 1,480 3.4%
- Financial activities 1,064 2.5%
- Manufacturing 593 1.4%
- Information 234 0.5%
- Natural resources & mining 24 0.1%
- Unclassified 1 0.0%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 81.2%
- Median gross rent
- $1,897
- Owner-occupied
- 48,900
- Renter-occupied
- 11,299
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 91,650 votes cast
- Democratic 63,454 69.2%
- Republican 26,145 28.5%
- Other / third-party 2,051 2.2%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
89.6% speak only English at home
- Spanish 7,683 4.8%
- Other 1,900 1.2%
- Other Indo-European 1,603 1.0%
- Tagalog 1,549 1.0%
- French (incl. Cajun) 914 0.6%
- German 807 0.5%
- Other Asian/Pacific 539 0.3%
- Chinese 534 0.3%
- Arabic 314 0.2%
- Korean 247 0.2%
- Vietnamese 244 0.2%
- Slavic languages 169 0.1%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 60,199
- Family households
- 43,541
- 72.3% of households
- Married w/ children
- 31,148
- Single-mother households
- 4,528
- Veterans
- 16,664
- 13.2% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
39.9% overall adherence rate
- Catholic 33,962 20.4%
- Evangelical Protestant 19,981 12.0%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 5,534 3.3%
- Mainline Protestant 5,379 3.2%
- Black Protestant 1,476 0.9%
- Orthodox 85 0.1%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 95.6%
- With a disability
- 10.8%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 31.6%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
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 countys.
Traffic safety context
Maryland statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 21
- 16.38 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 20
NHTSA FARS 2023