Jury Pool Profile

Talbot County, Maryland

Republican +0 (2024)

Population: 37,707
Median household income: $84,378
Unemployment: 3.9%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 28,535 75.7%
Black or African American alone 4,521 12.0%
Asian alone 474 1.3%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 234 0.6%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
Some other race alone 1,141 3.0%
Two or more races 2,802 7.4%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3,432 9.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 51.1

Under 18 7,071 18.8%
18–24 2,126 5.6%
25–44 7,385 19.6%
45–64 10,065 26.7%
65 and over 11,060 29.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.9%; -0.22 pp vs. state
County GDP: $2.8B; 0.51% of state
Avg. annual pay: $56,684
Establishments: 1,596

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 4,539 24.9%
Trade, transportation & utilities 3,738 20.5%
Leisure & hospitality 2,920 16.0%
Professional & business services 2,463 13.5%
Construction 1,167 6.4%
Public administration 1,062 5.8%
Other services 834 4.6%
Financial activities 674 3.7%
Manufacturing 553 3.0%
Information 151 0.8%
Natural resources & mining 83 0.5%
Unclassified 1 0.0%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 72.7%
Median gross rent: $1,248
Owner-occupied: 11,784
Renter-occupied: 4,427

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 22,667 votes cast

Republican 11,125 49.1%
Democratic 11,119 49.1%
Other / third-party 423 1.9%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

90.1% speak only English at home

Spanish 2,495 6.9%
Other Indo-European 499 1.4%
Other 119 0.3%
Slavic languages 97 0.3%
French (incl. Cajun) 85 0.2%
German 85 0.2%
Tagalog 69 0.2%
Chinese 40 0.1%
Other Asian/Pacific 40 0.1%
Vietnamese 18 0.0%
Arabic 15 0.0%
Korean 8 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 16,211
Family households: 10,033; 61.9% of households
Married w/ children: 7,775
Single-mother households: 870
Veterans: 2,765; 9% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

49.7% overall adherence rate

Catholic 6,388 17.0%
Mainline Protestant 6,107 16.3%
Evangelical Protestant 4,256 11.3%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,177 3.1%
Black Protestant 704 1.9%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 95.5%
With a disability: 16.4%
Bachelor's or higher: 41.3%

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: 4; 13.06 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 4

NHTSA FARS 2023