Bronx County, New York

• White (non-Hispanic) 122,363 8.7%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 773,828 55.1%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 402,798 28.7%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 56,667 4.0%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 30,687 2.2%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 3,758 0.3%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 649 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 14,029 1.0%

• Under 18 341,492 24.3%
• 18–24 132,656 9.4%
• 25–44 391,200 27.8%
• 45–64 336,217 23.9%
• 65 and over 203,214 14.5%

Median household income

$46,486

90% interval $44,572–$48,400

−$39,282 vs NY · 62nd of 62

Below poverty line

28.7%

90% interval 27.4%–30.0%

+14.7 pp vs NY · 1st of 62

Unemployment (12-mo)

7.2%

+2.65 pp vs. state

County GDP

$58.3B

2.51% of state

Avg. annual pay

$71,823

Establishments

20,064

• Education & health services 191,224 54.0%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 56,728 16.0%
• Professional & business services 20,463 5.8%
• Leisure & hospitality 20,200 5.7%
• Public administration 19,504 5.5%
• Financial activities 13,391 3.8%
• Construction 10,393 2.9%
• Other services 8,550 2.4%
• Manufacturing 4,428 1.2%
• Information 1,893 0.5%
• Unclassified 1,828 0.5%
• Natural resources & mining 53 0.0%

The sectors listed cover 98.4% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

20.1%

−34.2 pp vs NY · 62nd of 62

Median gross rent

$1,458

−$163 vs NY · 12th of 62

Owner-occupied

107,175

Renter-occupied

426,925

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 76% 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.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Public administration, $108,821/yr) pays 3.3× the lowest (Natural resources & mining, $33,088/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 18 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Democratic 261,670 72.7%
• Republican 98,174 27.3%

• Spanish 591,841 45.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 23,553 1.8%
• Arabic 7,484 0.6%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 5,708 0.4%
• Chinese 5,580 0.4%
• Tagalog 4,083 0.3%
• Vietnamese 2,457 0.2%
• Korean 1,415 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 1,057 0.1%

Households

534,100

Family households

332,901

62.3% of households

Married couples w/ children

59,687

17.9% of families

Single-mother families

73,571

22.1% of families

Veterans

21,088

2% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 337,097 22.9%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 131,870 9.0%
• Evangelical Protestant 63,636 4.3%
• Mainline Protestant 22,315 1.5%
• Black Protestant 13,314 0.9%
• Orthodox 2,177 0.1%

Health insured

92.9%

±0.3 pp

Uninsured

7.1%

±0.3 pp

5th of 62

With a disability

17.7%

±0.4 pp

3rd of 62

Bachelor's or higher

22.4%

±0.5 pp

−17.8 pp vs NY · 54th of 62

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.1%

90% interval 7.5%–8.7% · Census SAHIE

The under-65 uninsured rate is not comparable to the ACS insurance figures, which cover all ages.

Trial court

12th Judicial District Supreme Court

Judges

22 (Elected Supreme Court Justices per Judicial District (general civil + felony criminal jurisdiction). Excludes Acting Supreme Court Justices designated from lower courts (would roughly double the bench in NYC + Long Island). Vintage 2026 nycourts.gov + Judiciary Law § 140-a; counts are approximate and shift with vacancies/redistributions.)

Court seats

Bronx

Traffic fatalities

52

4.89 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

47