Jury Pool Profile
Lake County, Minnesota
Democratic +4 (2024)
- Population
- 10,911
- Median household income
- $75,621
- Unemployment
- 4.4%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 10,422 95.5%
- Black or African American alone 43 0.4%
- Asian alone 25 0.2%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 27 0.2%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
- Some other race alone 21 0.2%
- Two or more races 373 3.4%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 154 1.4%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 49.6
- Under 18 2,081 19.1%
- 18–24 609 5.6%
- 25–44 2,224 20.4%
- 45–64 3,008 27.6%
- 65 and over 2,989 27.4%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 4.4%
- +0.39 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $564.7M
- 0.11% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $54,467
- Establishments
- 378
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 970 24.9%
- Leisure & hospitality 710 18.2%
- Manufacturing 524 13.4%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 478 12.3%
- Public administration 370 9.5%
- Other services 193 4.9%
- Professional & business services 134 3.4%
- Financial activities 95 2.4%
- Information 19 0.5%
- Construction 7 0.2%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 84.0%
- Median gross rent
- $1,026
- Owner-occupied
- 4,225
- Renter-occupied
- 805
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 6,929 votes cast
- Democratic 3,534 51.0%
- Republican 3,265 47.1%
- Other / third-party 130 1.9%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
98.6% speak only English at home
- Spanish 71 0.7%
- Other 33 0.3%
- Other Indo-European 15 0.1%
- Vietnamese 13 0.1%
- German 6 0.1%
- Tagalog 3 0.0%
- Other Asian/Pacific 2 0.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 5,030
- Family households
- 3,153
- 62.7% of households
- Married w/ children
- 2,588
- Single-mother households
- 266
- Veterans
- 694
- 7.9% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
47.4% overall adherence rate
- Mainline Protestant 3,096 28.4%
- Catholic 1,320 12.1%
- Evangelical Protestant 637 5.8%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 111 1.0%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 95.1%
- With a disability
- 15.9%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 25.8%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 6th Judicial District Court
- Judges
- 17 (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
- Carlton, Duluth, Grand Marais, Two Harbors
This judicial district spans multiple countys.
Traffic safety context
Minnesota statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 2
- 22.65 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 2
NHTSA FARS 2023