Jury Pool Profile
Oneida County, New York
Republican +21 (2024)
- Population
- 229,645
- Median household income
- $68,819
- Unemployment
- 4.0%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 187,061 81.5%
- Black or African American alone 12,818 5.6%
- Asian alone 9,545 4.2%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 364 0.2%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 127 0.1%
- Some other race alone 5,658 2.5%
- Two or more races 14,072 6.1%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 15,588 6.8%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 40.8
- Under 18 49,542 21.6%
- 18–24 21,034 9.2%
- 25–44 54,907 23.9%
- 45–64 59,626 26.0%
- 65 and over 44,536 19.4%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 4.0%
- -0.48 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $14.7B
- 0.63% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $61,102
- Establishments
- 5,356
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 30,443 29.7%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 17,679 17.2%
- Manufacturing 10,038 9.8%
- Public administration 8,756 8.5%
- Leisure & hospitality 8,161 8.0%
- Professional & business services 7,488 7.3%
- Financial activities 5,830 5.7%
- Other services 2,776 2.7%
- Construction 2,211 2.2%
- Information 672 0.7%
- Natural resources & mining 433 0.4%
- Unclassified 252 0.2%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 67.8%
- Median gross rent
- $917
- Owner-occupied
- 63,966
- Renter-occupied
- 30,395
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 100,102 votes cast
- Republican 60,687 60.6%
- Democratic 39,415 39.4%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
86.7% speak only English at home
- Spanish 8,409 3.9%
- Slavic languages 6,419 3.0%
- Other Asian/Pacific 6,152 2.8%
- Other Indo-European 2,008 0.9%
- Other 1,575 0.7%
- Arabic 1,241 0.6%
- Chinese 937 0.4%
- German 667 0.3%
- French (incl. Cajun) 592 0.3%
- Vietnamese 538 0.2%
- Korean 204 0.1%
- Tagalog 138 0.1%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 94,361
- Family households
- 57,570
- 61.0% of households
- Married w/ children
- 41,011
- Single-mother households
- 6,669
- Veterans
- 13,113
- 7.3% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
53.0% overall adherence rate
- Catholic 77,564 33.4%
- Evangelical Protestant 17,054 7.3%
- Mainline Protestant 16,108 6.9%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 10,575 4.6%
- Black Protestant 1,440 0.6%
- Orthodox 175 0.1%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 96.7%
- With a disability
- 15.1%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 27.8%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 5th Judicial District Supreme Court
- Judges
- 13 (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
- Herkimer, Lowville, Oswego, Syracuse, Utica, Watertown
This judicial district spans multiple countys.
Traffic safety context
New York statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 24
- 13.33 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 23
NHTSA FARS 2023