Jury Pool Profile
Valencia County, New Mexico
Republican +16 (2024)
- Population
- 77,382
- Median household income
- $58,333
- Unemployment
- 4.7%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 43,171 55.8%
- Black or African American alone 1,057 1.4%
- Asian alone 620 0.8%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 3,577 4.6%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 82 0.1%
- Some other race alone 7,805 10.1%
- Two or more races 21,070 27.2%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 46,872 60.6%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 39
- Under 18 17,701 22.9%
- 18–24 6,566 8.5%
- 25–44 19,470 25.2%
- 45–64 19,308 25.0%
- 65 and over 14,337 18.5%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 4.7%
- +0.41 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $2.4B
- 1.65% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $49,642
- Establishments
- 1,532
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 5,545 31.8%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 4,417 25.3%
- Construction 2,097 12.0%
- Leisure & hospitality 1,704 9.8%
- Public administration 1,007 5.8%
- Professional & business services 901 5.2%
- Manufacturing 767 4.4%
- Financial activities 336 1.9%
- Other services 287 1.6%
- Information 226 1.3%
- Natural resources & mining 157 0.9%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 82.1%
- Median gross rent
- $970
- Owner-occupied
- 21,975
- Renter-occupied
- 4,807
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 33,277 votes cast
- Republican 19,057 57.3%
- Democratic 13,609 40.9%
- Other / third-party 611 1.8%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
72.2% speak only English at home
- Spanish 18,353 25.1%
- Other 1,471 2.0%
- Other Indo-European 169 0.2%
- German 110 0.2%
- Chinese 82 0.1%
- Other Asian/Pacific 51 0.1%
- Slavic languages 27 0.0%
- Vietnamese 25 0.0%
- French (incl. Cajun) 17 0.0%
- Tagalog 12 0.0%
- Arabic 3 0.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 26,782
- Family households
- 18,311
- 68.4% of households
- Married w/ children
- 12,342
- Single-mother households
- 2,302
- Veterans
- 5,716
- 9.6% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
49.4% overall adherence rate
- Catholic 26,899 35.3%
- Evangelical Protestant 5,099 6.7%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 4,244 5.6%
- Mainline Protestant 1,097 1.4%
- Black Protestant 340 0.4%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 92.0%
- With a disability
- 21.1%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 20.8%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 13th Judicial District Court
- Judges
- 9 (District Court judges per district (general civil + criminal jurisdiction); Magistrate Court judges separate; vintage 2026 nmcourts.gov)
- Court seats
- Bernalillo, Grants, Los Lunas
This judicial district spans multiple countys.
Traffic safety context
New Mexico statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 14
- 23.46 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 14
NHTSA FARS 2023