Jury Pool Profile

Cascade County, Montana

Republican +22 (2024)

Population: 84,601
Median household income: $66,203
Unemployment: 3.2%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 71,640 84.7%
Black or African American alone 1,232 1.5%
Asian alone 1,010 1.2%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 2,977 3.5%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 10 0.0%
Some other race alone 1,441 1.7%
Two or more races 6,291 7.4%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4,283 5.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 38.3

Under 18 19,000 22.5%
18–24 7,491 8.9%
25–44 22,235 26.3%
45–64 19,521 23.1%
65 and over 16,354 19.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.2%; -0.21 pp vs. state
County GDP: $5.7B; 7.28% of state
Avg. annual pay: $55,412
Establishments: 3,200

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 9,728 26.6%
Trade, transportation & utilities 7,911 21.7%
Leisure & hospitality 5,136 14.1%
Professional & business services 3,451 9.5%
Construction 2,721 7.5%
Public administration 2,637 7.2%
Financial activities 1,944 5.3%
Manufacturing 1,299 3.6%
Other services 1,257 3.4%
Information 203 0.6%
Natural resources & mining 196 0.5%
Unclassified 28 0.1%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 70.2%
Median gross rent: $902
Owner-occupied: 24,490
Renter-occupied: 10,419

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 37,583 votes cast

Republican 22,419 59.7%
Democratic 14,021 37.3%
Other / third-party 1,143 3.0%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

96.3% speak only English at home

Spanish 1,021 1.3%
German 807 1.0%
Other Indo-European 278 0.3%
Tagalog 163 0.2%
Chinese 154 0.2%
Other 120 0.2%
Other Asian/Pacific 113 0.1%
Slavic languages 81 0.1%
Arabic 63 0.1%
French (incl. Cajun) 60 0.1%
Korean 46 0.1%
Vietnamese 11 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 34,909
Family households: 21,326; 61.1% of households
Married w/ children: 16,325
Single-mother households: 2,064
Veterans: 8,344; 13.3% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

37.8% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 17,013 20.2%
Catholic 6,064 7.2%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 4,806 5.7%
Mainline Protestant 3,773 4.5%
Black Protestant 230 0.3%
Orthodox 27 0.0%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 93.3%
With a disability: 15.7%
Bachelor's or higher: 28.7%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 8th Judicial District Court
Judges: 4 (District Court judges per district (general civil + criminal jurisdiction); Justice Court judges (limited jurisdiction) separate. Vintage 2026 courts.mt.gov; counts cross-checked against MCA § 3-5-102 statutory allocations. Several single-judge rural districts (5th, 9th, 10th, 12th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd) carry one District Court judgeship each.)
Court seats: Great Falls

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Montana statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 8; 12.19 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 8

NHTSA FARS 2023