Jury Pool Profile
Kandiyohi County, Minnesota
Republican +31 (2024)
- Population
- 43,757
- Median household income
- $75,097
- Unemployment
- 4.4%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 35,471 81.1%
- Black or African American alone 2,465 5.6%
- Asian alone 568 1.3%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 243 0.6%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 78 0.2%
- Some other race alone 2,674 6.1%
- Two or more races 2,258 5.2%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6,109 14.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 39.8
- Under 18 10,744 24.6%
- 18–24 3,420 7.8%
- 25–44 10,366 23.7%
- 45–64 10,490 24.0%
- 65 and over 8,737 20.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 4.4%
- +0.37 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $3.1B
- 0.62% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $51,980
- Establishments
- 1,484
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 7,255 31.3%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 4,324 18.7%
- Manufacturing 2,651 11.4%
- Leisure & hospitality 1,808 7.8%
- Professional & business services 1,602 6.9%
- Construction 1,522 6.6%
- Natural resources & mining 1,416 6.1%
- Public administration 1,088 4.7%
- Financial activities 589 2.5%
- Other services 588 2.5%
- Information 332 1.4%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 72.1%
- Median gross rent
- $843
- Owner-occupied
- 12,590
- Renter-occupied
- 4,860
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 23,213 votes cast
- Republican 15,014 64.7%
- Democratic 7,814 33.7%
- Other / third-party 385 1.7%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
86.3% speak only English at home
- Spanish 3,679 9.0%
- Other 1,207 3.0%
- Other Asian/Pacific 419 1.0%
- Other Indo-European 101 0.2%
- Slavic languages 95 0.2%
- German 51 0.1%
- French (incl. Cajun) 28 0.1%
- Arabic 8 0.0%
- Korean 4 0.0%
- Tagalog 2 0.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 17,450
- Family households
- 11,584
- 66.4% of households
- Married w/ children
- 9,163
- Single-mother households
- 801
- Veterans
- 2,034
- 6.2% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
67.5% overall adherence rate
- Mainline Protestant 14,911 34.1%
- Evangelical Protestant 7,780 17.8%
- Catholic 5,923 13.5%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 899 2.1%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 93.1%
- With a disability
- 14.1%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 27.1%
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
- 13
- 39.38 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 9
NHTSA FARS 2023