Jury Pool Profile

Hudson County, New Jersey

Democratic +28 (2024)

Population: 710,478
Median household income: $90,032
Unemployment: 4.6%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 263,094 37.0%
Black or African American alone 86,696 12.2%
Asian alone 117,450 16.5%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 6,140 0.9%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 129 0.0%
Some other race alone 108,484 15.3%
Two or more races 128,485 18.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 289,220 40.7%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 35.8

Under 18 142,298 20.0%
18–24 53,517 7.5%
25–44 264,227 37.2%
45–64 162,019 22.8%
65 and over 88,417 12.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.6%; -0.65 pp vs. state
County GDP: $65.7B; 7.77% of state
Avg. annual pay: $94,901
Establishments: 19,208

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Trade, transportation & utilities 68,105 24.9%
Education & health services 54,976 20.1%
Financial activities 44,327 16.2%
Professional & business services 35,452 13.0%
Leisure & hospitality 25,888 9.5%
Public administration 14,360 5.2%
Manufacturing 9,788 3.6%
Other services 7,670 2.8%
Information 201 0.1%
Construction 42 0.0%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 31.2%
Median gross rent: $1,811
Owner-occupied: 92,160
Renter-occupied: 203,392

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Largest employers

Principal employers by headcount

#	Employer	Sector	Employees
1	UBS (Wealth Management Americas HQ, Lincoln Harbor, Weehawken)	Financial Services	4,400*
2	Goldman Sachs (30 Hudson Street, Jersey City)	Financial Services	4,000*
3	City of Jersey City (municipal government)	Government	3,171*
4	County of Hudson (county government)	Government	2,800*
5	Pershing LLC / BNY Mellon (Jersey City)	Financial Services	2,000*
6	Jersey City Medical Center (RWJBarnabas Health)	Healthcare	1,942*
7	Bayonne Medical Center (Hudson Regional Health, formerly CarePoint)	Healthcare	1,867*
8	New Jersey City University (Jersey City)	Education	1,663*
9	Jersey City Board of Education (public schools)	Education	1,661*
10	JPMorgan Chase (Jersey City waterfront)	Financial Services	1,592*
11	Citigroup (480 Washington Blvd, Jersey City)	Financial Services	1,500*
12	Hoboken University Medical Center (Hudson Regional Health, formerly CarePoint)	Healthcare	1,200*

* Headcount is an estimate.

Source: Hudson County Economic Development Corporation (HCEDC), "Major Employer's List, 2022" — county economic-development authority; sourced from the Dun & Bradstreet Million Dollar Directory. Corroborated for employer identity/sectors by Choose New Jersey's Hudson County employer fact sheet (2023-2025) and by company/Census magnitude checks (Data USA / U.S. Census County Business Patterns; Hudson County total employment ~390K, 2024). (2022)

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 231,181 votes cast

Democratic 144,765 62.6%
Republican 79,913 34.6%
Other / third-party 6,503 2.8%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

43.3% speak only English at home

Spanish 224,378 33.8%
Other Indo-European 54,714 8.2%
Arabic 21,287 3.2%
Chinese 18,209 2.7%
Tagalog 15,568 2.3%
Other Asian/Pacific 11,113 1.7%
Slavic languages 10,137 1.5%
French (incl. Cajun) 6,521 1.0%
Other 5,779 0.9%
Korean 4,000 0.6%
German 2,462 0.4%
Vietnamese 2,366 0.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 295,552
Family households: 172,416; 58.3% of households
Married w/ children: 114,754
Single-mother households: 19,590
Veterans: 10,289; 1.8% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

49.4% overall adherence rate

Catholic 215,561 29.7%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 75,075 10.4%
Evangelical Protestant 34,684 4.8%
Black Protestant 12,394 1.7%
Orthodox 10,446 1.4%
Mainline Protestant 9,861 1.4%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 88.8%
With a disability: 8.7%
Bachelor's or higher: 47.9%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: Vicinage 6
Judges: 37 (Superior Court judges administered through this vicinage; vintage 2026 njcourts.gov roster)
Court seats: Jersey City

Court reference

Traffic safety context

New Jersey statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 25; 4.4 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 23

NHTSA FARS 2023