Jury Pool Profile
Waseca County, Minnesota
Republican +32 (2024)
- Population
- 18,958
- Median household income
- $75,052
- Unemployment
- 4.8%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 16,963 89.5%
- Black or African American alone 206 1.1%
- Asian alone 169 0.9%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 157 0.8%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
- Some other race alone 772 4.1%
- Two or more races 691 3.6%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,322 7.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 40.4
- Under 18 4,375 23.1%
- 18–24 1,426 7.5%
- 25–44 4,911 25.9%
- 45–64 4,736 25.0%
- 65 and over 3,510 18.5%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 4.8%
- +0.76 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $1.3B
- 0.25% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $54,072
- Establishments
- 552
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 1,687 30.5%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 899 16.3%
- Manufacturing 868 15.7%
- Public administration 542 9.8%
- Leisure & hospitality 463 8.4%
- Construction 277 5.0%
- Professional & business services 246 4.4%
- Natural resources & mining 139 2.5%
- Information 18 0.3%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 79.3%
- Median gross rent
- $819
- Owner-occupied
- 5,950
- Renter-occupied
- 1,555
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 10,361 votes cast
- Republican 6,770 65.3%
- Democratic 3,402 32.8%
- Other / third-party 189 1.8%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
93.0% speak only English at home
- Spanish 1,001 5.6%
- Chinese 101 0.6%
- Other Indo-European 33 0.2%
- German 26 0.1%
- Slavic languages 24 0.1%
- Other 20 0.1%
- Other Asian/Pacific 19 0.1%
- Vietnamese 11 0.1%
- French (incl. Cajun) 8 0.0%
- Tagalog 3 0.0%
- Korean 1 0.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 7,505
- Family households
- 5,132
- 68.4% of households
- Married w/ children
- 4,009
- Single-mother households
- 573
- Veterans
- 1,048
- 7.2% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
64.1% overall adherence rate
- Catholic 4,230 22.3%
- Mainline Protestant 4,010 21.1%
- Evangelical Protestant 3,703 19.5%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 207 1.1%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 96.2%
- With a disability
- 11.8%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 20.9%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 3rd Judicial District Court
- Judges
- 23 (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
- Albert Lea, Austin, Caledonia, Faribault, Mantorville, Owatonna, Preston, Rochester, Wabasha, Waseca, Winona
This judicial district spans multiple countys.
Traffic safety context
Minnesota statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 1
- 6.86 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 1
NHTSA FARS 2023