Jury Pool Profile
Big Stone County, Minnesota
Republican +30 (2024)
- Population
- 5,152
- Median household income
- $65,475
- Unemployment
- 4.5%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 4,889 94.9%
- Black or African American alone 9 0.2%
- Asian alone 49 1.0%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 16 0.3%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
- Some other race alone 59 1.1%
- Two or more races 130 2.5%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 130 2.5%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 47.4
- Under 18 1,137 22.1%
- 18–24 289 5.6%
- 25–44 1,053 20.4%
- 45–64 1,307 25.4%
- 65 and over 1,366 26.5%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 4.5%
- +0.46 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $336.4M
- 0.07% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $53,377
- Establishments
- 221
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 715 42.2%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 282 16.6%
- Construction 189 11.2%
- Public administration 157 9.3%
- Leisure & hospitality 120 7.1%
- Other services 55 3.2%
- Financial activities 49 2.9%
- Professional & business services 38 2.2%
- Information 16 0.9%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 79.4%
- Median gross rent
- $718
- Owner-occupied
- 1,730
- Renter-occupied
- 449
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 2,816 votes cast
- Republican 1,796 63.8%
- Democratic 964 34.2%
- Other / third-party 56 2.0%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
96.4% speak only English at home
- German 76 1.6%
- Spanish 55 1.1%
- Other Asian/Pacific 16 0.3%
- Tagalog 10 0.2%
- Other 9 0.2%
- Other Indo-European 8 0.2%
- Slavic languages 2 0.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 2,179
- Family households
- 1,360
- 62.4% of households
- Married w/ children
- 1,225
- Single-mother households
- 69
- Veterans
- 297
- 7.4% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
80.7% overall adherence rate
- Evangelical Protestant 1,696 32.8%
- Mainline Protestant 1,396 27.0%
- Catholic 996 19.3%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 80 1.5%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 96.6%
- With a disability
- 13.8%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 21.3%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 8th Judicial District Court
- Judges
- 11 (District Court judges per judicial district; counts vintage 2026 mncourts.gov and may shift modestly as the Legislature reallocates seats between districts (Minn. Stat. § 2.724).)
- Court seats
- Benson, Breckenridge, Elbow Lake, Glenwood, Granite Falls, Litchfield, Madison, Montevideo, Morris, Olivia, Ortonville, Wheaton, Willmar
This judicial district spans multiple countys.
Traffic safety context
Minnesota statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 0
- 0 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 0
NHTSA FARS 2023