Jury Pool Profile

Laclede County, Missouri

Republican +66.8 (2024)

County seat: Lebanon
Judicial district: 26th Judicial Circuit Court
Population (July 2025 estimate): 36,943; Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 36,390.

At a glance

Laclede County is a 36,943-person venue. The county population is 91% White (Census race-alone categories). Median household income is $58,327, $13,256 below the MO state median of $71,583; 16.3% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 2.7% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, most commonly Spanish. The largest employment sector is Manufacturing, at 33.0% of covered employment, average pay $59,746/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 4.91%, above the 3.85% state average. The county carried the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking 80% to 83% of the vote across the three.

Population: 36,390
Median household income: $53,282
Unemployment: 4.9%

Who sits on a jury?

Predominantly White

≥70% White (race-alone) and <20% Black. This county: 91% / 1%.

Laclede County has a population of 36,390, with a median age of 39.2. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 91.3%; Black residents 0.6%. Independently, 3.0% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The median household earns $58,327; 16.3% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 14.9% live below the federal poverty line.

Race & ethnicity

White (non-Hispanic) 32,903 90.4%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,086 3.0%
Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 209 0.6%
Asian (non-Hispanic) 275 0.8%
Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,636 4.5%
American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 118 0.3%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 101 0.3%
Some other race (non-Hispanic) 62 0.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Age distribution

Median age 39.2

Under 18 8,953 24.6%
18–24 2,748 7.6%
25–44 8,837 24.3%
45–64 9,200 25.3%
65 and over 6,652 18.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Income & poverty

Median household income: $58,327; 90% interval $52,931–$63,723; −$13,256 vs MO · 74th of 115
Below poverty line: 14.9%; 90% interval 11.9%–17.9%; +2.7 pp vs MO · 42nd of 115

U.S. Census SAIPE 2024

Economic context

Manufacturing anchored

Largest sector in BLS QCEW: Manufacturing, about 33% of covered jobs.

Manufacturing is the largest employment sector at 33.0% of covered employment, followed by Trade, transportation & utilities at 19.8%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 4.91%, above the Missouri state average.

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.9%; +1.06 pp vs. state
County GDP: $2.1B; 0.46% of state
Avg. annual pay: $48,748
Establishments: 900

U.S. BLS 2026M07 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2025

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Manufacturing 4,285 33.0%
Trade, transportation & utilities 2,576 19.8%
Education & health services 2,503 19.3%
Leisure & hospitality 1,111 8.5%
Professional & business services 906 7.0%
Construction 399 3.1%
Public administration 361 2.8%
Financial activities 358 2.8%
Other services 297 2.3%
Natural resources & mining 115 0.9%
Information 86 0.7%

BLS QCEW 2025

Housing

Home ownership: 68.2%; +0.1 pp vs MO · 91st of 115
Median gross rent: $809; −$224 vs MO · 36th of 115
Owner-occupied: 9,930
Renter-occupied: 4,628

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Local economy in 3 reads

Concentrated

Top three sectors employ 72% of the county workforce. Most panelists likely share employer relationships within these sectors, surface those connections early in voir dire before any institutional-defendant or sector-specific framing.
Moderate wage spread

Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $62,286/yr) pays 2.7× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $23,021/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.
Mixed business scale

Average establishment employs 14 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

BLS QCEW 2025

Largest employers

Principal employers by headcount

3 of the top 5 employers on this list (3 of the listed 5) are in manufacturing, accounting for 2,432 employees on this list. This concentrates 'big institutional employer' juror experience in one sector; confirm employer ties before any framing that touches it.

#	Employer	Sector	Employees
1	Tracker Marine	Boat Manufacturing	996
2	Copeland	Manufacturing	909
3	Mercy Hospital-Lebanon	Healthcare	700
4	Lebanon R-III School District	School	678
5	Missouri Cooperage (Independent Stave Company)	Barrel Manufacturing	527

Showing 5 of 10 employers on the published list(5,250 employees total).

Source: Lebanon Regional Economic Development, Inc., top ten employers table as printed in the City of Lebanon, Missouri, Annual Budget for Fiscal Year 2025, prepared in spring 2024. The budget does not say whether counts are full-time or total staff; they are each employer's figure as reported. (2024)

Political composition

Consistently strongly Republican

Republican candidate carried this county in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (avg winning share: 82%). 'Strongly' threshold: ≥60% avg.

Laclede County was carried by the Republican candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 82.9% in 2024, 82.0% in 2020, 80.4% in 2016.

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 17,076 votes cast

Republican
Democratic

Republican 14,155 82.9%
Democratic 2,756 16.1%
Other / third-party 165 1.0%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Family-majority, English-speaking

Family households are 64% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 2.7% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).

2.7% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, German or other West Germanic, Chinese. Veterans account for 8.3% of the adult civilian population (2,282 individuals).

Languages spoken at home

97.3% speak only English at home

Spanish 403 1.2%
German or other West Germanic 166 0.5%
Chinese 93 0.3%
French, Haitian, or Cajun 70 0.2%
Tagalog 23 0.1%
Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 9 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Household composition

Households: 14,558
Family households: 9,255; 63.6% of households
Married couples w/ children: 2,309; 24.9% of families
Single-mother families: 1,040; 11.2% of families
Veterans: 2,282; 8.3% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Religious composition

55.3% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 17,248 47.9%
Mainline Protestant 1,514 4.2%
Catholic 588 1.6%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 582 1.6%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 89.1%; ±1.8 pp
Uninsured: 10.9%; ±1.8 pp; 47th of 115
With a disability: 19.5%; ±1.5 pp; 32nd of 115
Bachelor's or higher: 16.3%; ±2.3 pp; −16.1 pp vs MO · 81st of 115
Uninsured, under 65 (2024): 10.6%; 90% interval 9.4%–11.8% · Census SAHIE

The under-65 uninsured rate is not comparable to the ACS insurance figures, which cover all ages.

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 26th Judicial Circuit Court
Judges: 10 (circuit + associate circuit judges combined; vintage 2019-2020 Bluebook)
Court seats: California, Camdenton, Lebanon, Tuscumbia, Versailles

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Laclede totals, 2024 — the per-100k rate is based on 10 recorded deaths, too few to be statistically reliable

Traffic fatalities: 10; 36.45 per 100k adults (18+)
Fatal crashes: 9

NHTSA FARS 2024