Jury Pool Profile

Fallon County, Montana

Republican +75.7 (2024)

County seat: Baker
Judicial district: 16th Judicial District Court
Population (July 2025 estimate): 2,959; Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 2,760.

At a glance

Fallon County is a 2,959-person venue. The county population is 92% White (Census race-alone categories). Median household income is $76,163; 16.2% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The largest employment sector is Trade, transportation & utilities, at 26.1% of covered employment, average pay $62,476/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 2.52%, below the 3.48% state average. The county carried the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking roughly 86% of the vote each time.

Population: 2,760
Median household income: $76,250
Unemployment: 2.5%

Who sits on a jury?

Predominantly White

≥70% White (race-alone) and <20% Black. This county: 92% / 0%.

Fallon County has a population of 2,760, with a median age of 37.5. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 92.2%; Black residents 0.0%.

The median household earns $76,163; 16.2% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 9.3% live below the federal poverty line.

Race & ethnicity

White (non-Hispanic) 2,544 92.2%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4 0.1%
Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
Asian (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 150 5.4%
American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 62 2.2%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
Some other race (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Age distribution

Median age 37.5

Under 18 653 23.7%
18–24 247 8.9%
25–44 674 24.4%
45–64 572 20.7%
65 and over 614 22.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Income & poverty

Median household income: $76,163; 90% interval $68,369–$83,957; +$643 vs MT · 12th of 56
Below poverty line: 9.3%; 90% interval 6.8%–11.8%; −1.1 pp vs MT · 46th of 56

U.S. Census SAIPE 2024

Economic context

Service-sector economy

None of the heuristic anchors fired (oil & gas <5%, healthcare/education <20%, manufacturing <15%). Top sector: Trade, transportation & utilities (26.1%).

Trade, transportation & utilities is the largest employment sector at 26.1% of covered employment, followed by Education & health services at 19.9%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 2.52%, below the Montana state average.

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 2.5%; −0.96 pp vs. state
County GDP: $223.5M; 0.28% of state
Avg. annual pay: $56,827
Establishments: 177

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Trade, transportation & utilities 303 26.1%
Education & health services 231 19.9%
Public administration 134 11.5%
Leisure & hospitality 84 7.2%
Professional & business services 57 4.9%
Other services 54 4.6%
Financial activities 42 3.6%
Construction 3 0.3%

The sectors listed cover 78.1% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

BLS QCEW 2025

Housing

Home ownership: 69.4%; +0.2 pp vs MT · 37th of 56
Median gross rent: $779; −$302 vs MT · 34th of 56
Owner-occupied: 818
Renter-occupied: 360

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Local economy in 3 reads

Moderately concentrated

Top three sectors employ 57% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.
Moderate wage spread

Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $63,561/yr) pays 3.5× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $18,270/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.
Small-business scale

Average establishment employs only 6.6 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

BLS QCEW 2025

Political composition

Consistently strongly Republican

Republican candidate carried this county in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (avg winning share: 87%). 'Strongly' threshold: ≥60% avg.

Fallon County was carried by the Republican candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 86.5% in 2024, 87.3% in 2020, 86.6% in 2016.

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 1,507 votes cast

Republican
Democratic

Republican 1,303 86.5%
Democratic 163 10.8%
Other / third-party 41 2.7%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Family-majority, English-speaking

Family households are 65% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 0.1% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).

0.1% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are German or other West Germanic. Veterans account for 2.1% of the adult civilian population (44 individuals).

Languages spoken at home

99.9% speak only English at home

German or other West Germanic 2 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Household composition

Households: 1,178
Family households: 765; 64.9% of households
Married couples w/ children: 240; 31.4% of families
Single-mother families: 37; 4.8% of families
Veterans: 44; 2.1% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Religious composition

55.5% overall adherence rate

Mainline Protestant 977 32.0%
Catholic 445 14.6%
Evangelical Protestant 270 8.9%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 96.9%; ±2 pp — too imprecise at this sample size to compare
With a disability: 10.9%; ±3.3 pp; 52nd of 56
Bachelor's or higher: 16.2%; ±4.6 pp; −19.0 pp vs MT · 56th of 56
Uninsured, under 65 (2024): 11.2%; 90% interval 9.8%–12.6% · 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: 16th Judicial District Court
Judges: 1 (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: Baker, Broadus, Ekalaka, Forsyth, Hysham, Jordan, Miles City

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Fallon totals, 2024 — the per-100k rate is based on 0 recorded deaths, too few to be statistically reliable

Traffic fatalities: 0; 0 per 100k adults (18+)
Fatal crashes: 0

NHTSA FARS 2024

Presidential vote share by year
Year	Republican	Democratic
2016	86.6%	10.4%
2020	87.3%	10.9%
2024	86.5%	10.8%