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Jury Pool Profile

Storey County, Nevada

Republican +38.9 (2024)
County seat
Virginia City
Judicial district
1st Judicial District Court
Population (July 2025 estimate)
4,260
Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 4,140.

At a glance

Storey County is a 4,260-person venue. The county population is 80% White (Census race-alone categories). 13% identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race. Median household income is $92,548, $11,419 above the NV state median of $81,129; 31.2% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 8.4% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home. The largest employment sector is Manufacturing, at 70.7% of covered employment, average pay $95,182/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 5.68%, above the 5.21% state average. The county carried the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking 63% to 69% of the vote across the three.

Population
4,140
Median household income
$93,409
Unemployment
5.7%

Who sits on a jury?

Predominantly White

≥70% White (race-alone) and <20% Black. This county: 80% / 2%.

Storey County has a population of 4,140, with a median age of 52.8. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 80.5%; Black residents 2.2%. Independently, 12.8% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The median household earns $92,548; 31.2% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 7.2% live below the federal poverty line.

Race & ethnicity
  • White (non-Hispanic) 3,166 76.5%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 530 12.8%
  • Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 91 2.2%
  • Asian (non-Hispanic) 55 1.3%
  • Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 293 7.1%
  • American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
  • Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
  • Some other race (non-Hispanic) 5 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Age distribution

Median age 52.8

  • Under 18 556 13.4%
  • 18–24 261 6.3%
  • 25–44 817 19.7%
  • 45–64 1,130 27.3%
  • 65 and over 1,376 33.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Income & poverty
Median household income
$92,548
90% interval $81,497–$103,599
+$11,419 vs NV · 2nd of 17
Below poverty line
7.2%
90% interval 5.4%–9.0%
−4.6 pp vs NV · 17th of 17

U.S. Census SAIPE 2024

Economic context

Manufacturing anchored

Largest sector in BLS QCEW, even counting every withheld job toward the other sectors: Manufacturing, about 71% of covered jobs.

Manufacturing is the largest employment sector at 70.7% of covered employment, followed by Trade, transportation & utilities at 15.5%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 5.68%, above the Nevada state average.

Local economy
Unemployment (12-mo)
5.7%
+0.47 pp vs. state
County GDP
$2.8B
1.03% of state
Avg. annual pay
$90,499
Establishments
284

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

  • Manufacturing 15,168 70.7%
  • Trade, transportation & utilities 3,320 15.5%
  • Construction 1,263 5.9%
  • Professional & business services 467 2.2%
  • Leisure & hospitality 286 1.3%
  • Public administration 251 1.2%
  • Information 240 1.1%
  • Natural resources & mining 117 0.5%
  • Education & health services 86 0.4%

The sectors listed cover 98.8% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

BLS QCEW 2025

Housing
Home ownership
96.1%
+36.1 pp vs NV · 1st of 17
Median gross rent
$1,153
Owner-occupied
1,818
Renter-occupied
74

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Local economy in 3 reads
  • Concentrated

    Top three sectors employ 92% 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.

  • Wide wage spread

    Highest-paid sector (Information, $160,270/yr) pays 6.3× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $25,482/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

  • Institutional employer scale

    Average establishment employs 76 workers, typical of an institutional-employer economy where large hospitals, plants, schools, and government agencies dominate. Expect many panelists to share an employer rather than work for themselves.

BLS QCEW 2025

Political composition

Consistently strongly Republican

Republican candidate carried this county in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (avg winning share: 66%). 'Strongly' threshold: ≥60% avg.

Storey County was carried by the Republican candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 68.6% in 2024, 66.3% in 2020, 63.2% in 2016.

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 3,075 votes cast

  • Republican
  • Democratic
Presidential vote share by year
YearRepublicanDemocratic
201663.2%29.4%
202066.3%31.4%
202468.6%29.7%
  • Republican 2,108 68.6%
  • Democratic 913 29.7%
  • Other / third-party 54 1.8%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Family-majority, English-speaking

Family households are 57% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 8.4% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).

8.4% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, French, Haitian, or Cajun, Russian, Polish, or other Slavic. Veterans account for 13.7% of the adult civilian population (487 individuals).

Languages spoken at home

91.6% speak only English at home

  • Spanish 195 4.9%
  • French, Haitian, or Cajun 43 1.1%
  • Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 32 0.8%
  • Tagalog 25 0.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Household composition
Households
1,892
Family households
1,069
56.5% of households
Married couples w/ children
222
20.8% of families
Single-mother families
59
5.5% of families
Veterans
487
13.7% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Religious composition

32.7% overall adherence rate

  • Catholic 1,304 31.8%
  • Mainline Protestant 29 0.7%
  • Evangelical Protestant 11 0.3%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education
Health insured
95.6%
±2.3 pp — too imprecise at this sample size to compare
With a disability
19.5%
±4.5 pp
8th of 17
Bachelor's or higher
31.2%
±6.6 pp
+3.3 pp vs NV · 3rd of 17
Uninsured, under 65 (2024)
10.1%
90% interval 8.7%–11.5% · 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

Court infrastructure
Trial court
1st Judicial District Court
Judges
2 (District Court judges per district (general civil + criminal jurisdiction, including family court divisions); Justice Court judges (limited jurisdiction, per township) separate. Vintage 2026 nvcourts.gov; counts cross-checked against NRS § 3.0105 statutory department allocations. Clark (8th) and Washoe (2nd) totals include both civil/criminal and family court departments.)
Court seats
Carson City, Virginia City

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Court reference
Traffic safety context

Storey totals, 2024 — the per-100k rate is based on 2 recorded deaths, too few to be statistically reliable

Traffic fatalities
2
55.8 per 100k adults (18+)
Fatal crashes
2

NHTSA FARS 2024

About this profile

This profile aggregates publicly available U.S. government statistics for Storey County, Nevada to give trial attorneys venue context for jury selection. It describes the general population of the county, not the qualified jury wheel, and is not legal advice or a substitute for the court's juror records.

Sources as of: U.S. Census ACS 2024 · U.S. BLS 2026M07 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2025 · Election results 2024 · NHTSA FARS 2024 · US Religion Census 2020.

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