Jury Pool Profile

Jefferson County, Missouri

Republican +37 (2024)

Population: 228,227
Median household income: $80,522
Unemployment: 3.8%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 205,419 90.0%
Black or African American alone 2,432 1.1%
Asian alone 2,350 1.0%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 284 0.1%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 60 0.0%
Some other race alone 1,920 0.8%
Two or more races 15,762 6.9%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5,793 2.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 40.2

Under 18 51,996 22.8%
18–24 17,123 7.5%
25–44 59,343 26.0%
45–64 62,995 27.6%
65 and over 36,770 16.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.8%; -0.18 pp vs. state
County GDP: $6.9B; 1.54% of state
Avg. annual pay: $49,615
Establishments: 4,597

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 12,961 26.2%
Trade, transportation & utilities 10,667 21.6%
Leisure & hospitality 6,968 14.1%
Construction 4,422 8.9%
Manufacturing 4,221 8.5%
Professional & business services 4,035 8.2%
Other services 2,070 4.2%
Public administration 1,962 4.0%
Financial activities 1,537 3.1%
Information 487 1.0%
Natural resources & mining 128 0.3%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 81.4%
Median gross rent: $972
Owner-occupied: 70,872
Renter-occupied: 16,153

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 119,287 votes cast

Republican 80,796 67.7%
Democratic 36,965 31.0%
Other / third-party 1,526 1.3%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

96.7% speak only English at home

Spanish 2,958 1.4%
Slavic languages 1,429 0.7%
German 560 0.3%
Chinese 472 0.2%
Other Indo-European 365 0.2%
Tagalog 322 0.1%
French (incl. Cajun) 309 0.1%
Other Asian/Pacific 305 0.1%
Other 248 0.1%
Arabic 161 0.1%
Korean 48 0.0%
Vietnamese 20 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 87,025
Family households: 61,435; 70.6% of households
Married w/ children: 47,688
Single-mother households: 4,441
Veterans: 13,847; 7.9% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

35.2% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 38,507 17.0%
Catholic 33,351 14.7%
Mainline Protestant 4,658 2.1%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,219 1.0%
Black Protestant 966 0.4%
Orthodox 15 0.0%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 92.7%
With a disability: 13.3%
Bachelor's or higher: 23.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 23rd Judicial Circuit Court
Judges: 12 (circuit + associate circuit judges combined; vintage 2019-2020 Bluebook)
Court seats: Hillsboro

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Missouri statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 24; 13.62 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 24

NHTSA FARS 2023