Kings County, New York

• White (non-Hispanic) 949,210 36.1%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 498,746 19.0%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 700,850 26.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 317,730 12.1%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 130,984 5.0%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 3,407 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 903 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 29,750 1.1%

• Under 18 584,474 22.2%
• 18–24 200,607 7.6%
• 25–44 840,051 31.9%
• 45–64 599,852 22.8%
• 65 and over 406,596 15.5%

Median household income

$80,696

90% interval $79,612–$81,780

−$5,072 vs NY · 16th of 62

Below poverty line

19.2%

90% interval 18.2%–20.2%

+5.2 pp vs NY · 2nd of 62

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.5%

+0.88 pp vs. state

County GDP

$145.9B

6.28% of state

Avg. annual pay

$61,642

Establishments

74,575

• Education & health services 470,338 50.9%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 129,814 14.0%
• Professional & business services 73,472 8.0%
• Leisure & hospitality 71,731 7.8%
• Public administration 37,782 4.1%
• Financial activities 33,063 3.6%
• Other services 29,873 3.2%
• Construction 29,501 3.2%
• Manufacturing 16,647 1.8%
• Information 13,566 1.5%
• Unclassified 7,197 0.8%
• Natural resources & mining 204 0.0%

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

Home ownership

29.5%

−24.8 pp vs NY · 60th of 62

Median gross rent

$1,833

+$212 vs NY · 7th of 62

Owner-occupied

297,916

Renter-occupied

712,011

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 73% 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 (Natural resources & mining, $165,987/yr) pays 4.0× the lowest (Other services, $41,801/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 12 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 601,265 72.0%
• Republican 233,964 28.0%

• Spanish 355,232 14.4%
• Chinese 165,139 6.7%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 151,289 6.1%
• German or other West Germanic 112,554 4.6%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 85,245 3.5%
• Arabic 34,476 1.4%
• Korean 6,052 0.2%
• Tagalog 5,452 0.2%
• Vietnamese 2,496 0.1%

Households

1,009,927

Family households

590,163

58.4% of households

Married couples w/ children

153,046

25.9% of families

Single-mother families

68,621

11.6% of families

Veterans

31,586

1.5% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 566,269 20.7%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 456,810 16.7%
• Evangelical Protestant 135,196 4.9%
• Mainline Protestant 66,245 2.4%
• Black Protestant 44,302 1.6%
• Orthodox 11,565 0.4%

Health insured

94.2%

±0.2 pp

Uninsured

5.8%

±0.2 pp

11th of 62

With a disability

11.5%

±0.2 pp

53rd of 62

Bachelor's or higher

42.1%

±0.4 pp

+1.9 pp vs NY · 9th of 62

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

6.6%

90% interval 6.2%–7.0% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

2nd Judicial District Supreme Court

Judges

48 (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

Brooklyn

Traffic fatalities

64

3.13 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

64