Jury Pool Profile
White Pine County, Nevada
- County seat
- Ely
- Judicial district
- 7th Judicial District Court
- Population (July 2025 estimate)
- 8,661
- Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 8,735.
At a glance
White Pine County is an 8,661-person venue. The county population is 75% White and 6% Black (Census race-alone categories). 17% identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race. Median household income is $71,474, $9,655 below the NV state median of $81,129; 12.4% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 7.5% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, most commonly Spanish. The largest employment sector is Natural resources & mining, at 33.6% of covered employment, average pay $118,288/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 4.31%, below the 5.21% state average. The county carried the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking 72% to 78% of the vote across the three. At least 12% of residents here live in group quarters rather than households, barracks, dormitories, correctional facilities or nursing homes; the ACS survey and the 2020 census disagree on how many, and this is the lower of the two, so the figures above describe a population substantially larger than the one a summons reaches.
- Population
- 8,735
- Median household income
- $72,865
- Unemployment
- 4.3%
Who sits on a jury?
≥70% White (race-alone) and <20% Black. This county: 75% / 6%.
White Pine County has a population of 8,735, with a median age of 43.1. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 75.2%; Black residents 6.0%. Independently, 16.5% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.
The median household earns $71,474; 12.4% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 12.6% live below the federal poverty line.
Economic context
Largest sector in BLS QCEW, even counting every withheld job toward the other sectors: Natural resources & mining, about 34% of covered jobs.
Natural resources & mining is the largest employment sector at 33.6% of covered employment, followed by Trade, transportation & utilities at 14.4%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 4.31%, below the Nevada state average.
Political composition
Republican candidate carried this county in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (avg winning share: 76%). 'Strongly' threshold: ≥60% avg.
White Pine County was carried by the Republican candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 77.3% in 2024, 77.9% in 2020, 72.2% in 2016.
Languages, households, faith & health
Family households are 57% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 7.5% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).
7.5% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, German or other West Germanic, Russian, Polish, or other Slavic. Veterans account for 9.5% of the adult civilian population (671 individuals).