Jury Pool Profile

Cayuga County, New York

Republican +13 (2024)

Population: 75,464
Median household income: $66,583
Unemployment: 3.8%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 66,812 88.5%
Black or African American alone 2,314 3.1%
Asian alone 472 0.6%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 106 0.1%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 7 0.0%
Some other race alone 1,328 1.8%
Two or more races 4,425 5.9%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2,633 3.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 43.7

Under 18 14,729 19.5%
18–24 5,757 7.6%
25–44 18,454 24.5%
45–64 21,015 27.8%
65 and over 15,509 20.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.8%; -0.65 pp vs. state
County GDP: $4.1B; 0.17% of state
Avg. annual pay: $62,623
Establishments: 1,739

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 6,296 25.6%
Trade, transportation & utilities 4,756 19.3%
Manufacturing 3,220 13.1%
Public administration 2,761 11.2%
Leisure & hospitality 2,324 9.4%
Professional & business services 1,347 5.5%
Construction 1,176 4.8%
Natural resources & mining 1,026 4.2%
Other services 733 3.0%
Financial activities 411 1.7%
Information 158 0.6%
Unclassified 58 0.2%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 71.9%
Median gross rent: $895
Owner-occupied: 22,533
Renter-occupied: 8,801

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 36,254 votes cast

Republican 20,482 56.5%
Democratic 15,772 43.5%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

95.8% speak only English at home

Spanish 1,458 2.0%
Other Indo-European 477 0.7%
German 465 0.6%
Slavic languages 191 0.3%
French (incl. Cajun) 124 0.2%
Other 84 0.1%
Chinese 80 0.1%
Other Asian/Pacific 77 0.1%
Tagalog 69 0.1%
Arabic 9 0.0%
Vietnamese 3 0.0%
Korean 1 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 31,334
Family households: 19,084; 60.9% of households
Married w/ children: 13,309
Single-mother households: 1,997
Veterans: 4,382; 7.2% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

43.7% overall adherence rate

Catholic 24,091 31.6%
Mainline Protestant 4,148 5.4%
Evangelical Protestant 3,190 4.2%
Black Protestant 896 1.2%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 838 1.1%
Orthodox 150 0.2%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 95.6%
With a disability: 14.3%
Bachelor's or higher: 23.9%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 7th Judicial District Supreme Court
Judges: 14 (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: Auburn, Bath, Canandaigua, Geneseo, Lyons, Penn Yan, Rochester, Waterloo

Court reference

Traffic safety context

New York statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 1; 1.65 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 1

NHTSA FARS 2023