Jury Pool Profile

Cape Girardeau County, Missouri

Republican +46 (2024)

Population: 82,180
Median household income: $68,912
Unemployment: 3.6%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 70,189 85.4%
Black or African American alone 6,650 8.1%
Asian alone 1,181 1.4%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 91 0.1%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 97 0.1%
Some other race alone 573 0.7%
Two or more races 3,399 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2,339 2.8%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 37

Under 18 17,633 21.5%
18–24 11,506 14.0%
25–44 19,777 24.1%
45–64 19,092 23.2%
65 and over 14,172 17.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.6%; -0.32 pp vs. state
County GDP: $5.4B; 1.19% of state
Avg. annual pay: $51,752
Establishments: 2,822

U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 14,122 34.1%
Trade, transportation & utilities 8,730 21.1%
Leisure & hospitality 5,169 12.5%
Manufacturing 3,793 9.1%
Professional & business services 3,104 7.5%
Construction 2,010 4.8%
Financial activities 1,383 3.3%
Public administration 1,240 3.0%
Other services 1,011 2.4%
Information 629 1.5%
Natural resources & mining 275 0.7%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 66.0%
Median gross rent: $881
Owner-occupied: 21,463
Renter-occupied: 11,081

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 40,336 votes cast

Republican 29,315 72.7%
Democratic 10,561 26.2%
Other / third-party 460 1.1%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

96.4% speak only English at home

Spanish 1,103 1.4%
Other Indo-European 488 0.6%
Other Asian/Pacific 296 0.4%
Chinese 222 0.3%
Slavic languages 186 0.2%
Arabic 117 0.2%
German 113 0.1%
French (incl. Cajun) 75 0.1%
Korean 69 0.1%
Vietnamese 64 0.1%
Tagalog 16 0.0%
Other 8 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 32,544
Family households: 19,850; 61.0% of households
Married w/ children: 15,947
Single-mother households: 1,544
Veterans: 4,374; 6.8% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

58.5% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 27,138 33.2%
Catholic 9,694 11.9%
Mainline Protestant 8,647 10.6%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,577 1.9%
Black Protestant 690 0.8%
Orthodox 27 0.0%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 92.9%
With a disability: 14.2%
Bachelor's or higher: 33.9%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 32nd Judicial Circuit Court
Judges: 6 (circuit + associate circuit judges combined; vintage 2019-2020 Bluebook)
Court seats: Jackson, Marble Hill, Perryville

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Missouri statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 13; 20.14 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 12

NHTSA FARS 2023