Jury Pool Profile
Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota
Republican +41 (2024)
- Population
- 9,509
- Median household income
- $71,573
- Unemployment
- 4.4%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 8,444 88.8%
- Black or African American alone 71 0.7%
- Asian alone 22 0.2%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 274 2.9%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 6 0.1%
- Some other race alone 292 3.1%
- Two or more races 400 4.2%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 493 5.2%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 42
- Under 18 2,196 23.1%
- 18–24 717 7.5%
- 25–44 2,192 23.1%
- 45–64 2,407 25.3%
- 65 and over 1,997 21.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 4.4%
- +0.42 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $784.2M
- 0.15% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $49,625
- Establishments
- 388
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 1,196 33.0%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 756 20.9%
- Leisure & hospitality 523 14.4%
- Public administration 307 8.5%
- Construction 178 4.9%
- Natural resources & mining 157 4.3%
- Manufacturing 143 3.9%
- Financial activities 124 3.4%
- Other services 102 2.8%
- Professional & business services 83 2.3%
- Information 54 1.5%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 84.2%
- Median gross rent
- $688
- Owner-occupied
- 3,364
- Renter-occupied
- 629
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 5,391 votes cast
- Republican 3,738 69.3%
- Democratic 1,548 28.7%
- Other / third-party 105 1.9%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
95.5% speak only English at home
- Spanish 328 3.7%
- Other 34 0.4%
- German 16 0.2%
- Slavic languages 9 0.1%
- Other Asian/Pacific 9 0.1%
- Other Indo-European 7 0.1%
- French (incl. Cajun) 2 0.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 3,993
- Family households
- 2,697
- 67.5% of households
- Married w/ children
- 2,171
- Single-mother households
- 182
- Veterans
- 520
- 7.1% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
74.1% overall adherence rate
- Mainline Protestant 3,524 37.0%
- Evangelical Protestant 1,828 19.2%
- Catholic 1,707 17.9%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 95.9%
- With a disability
- 13.9%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 19.0%
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