Jury Pool Profile
Onondaga County, New York
Democratic +17 (2024)
- Population
- 471,611
- Median household income
- $74,740
- Unemployment
- 3.6%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 358,131 75.9%
- Black or African American alone 50,946 10.8%
- Asian alone 18,728 4.0%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 2,530 0.5%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 261 0.1%
- Some other race alone 8,301 1.8%
- Two or more races 32,714 6.9%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 27,105 5.7%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 39.5
- Under 18 99,595 21.1%
- 18–24 47,260 10.0%
- 25–44 118,455 25.1%
- 45–64 120,520 25.6%
- 65 and over 85,781 18.2%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 3.6%
- -0.82 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $42.5B
- 1.83% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $69,444
- Establishments
- 12,898
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 71,447 29.1%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 55,282 22.5%
- Professional & business services 33,279 13.6%
- Leisure & hospitality 21,142 8.6%
- Manufacturing 19,589 8.0%
- Financial activities 11,243 4.6%
- Public administration 10,604 4.3%
- Construction 10,066 4.1%
- Other services 7,774 3.2%
- Information 2,509 1.0%
- Natural resources & mining 1,080 0.4%
- Unclassified 602 0.2%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 65.7%
- Median gross rent
- $1,067
- Owner-occupied
- 128,013
- Renter-occupied
- 66,950
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 227,071 votes cast
- Democratic 133,155 58.6%
- Republican 93,916 41.4%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
89.0% speak only English at home
- Spanish 14,457 3.2%
- Other Indo-European 6,756 1.5%
- Slavic languages 5,256 1.2%
- Chinese 4,720 1.1%
- Other 4,652 1.0%
- Arabic 3,556 0.8%
- Other Asian/Pacific 3,163 0.7%
- French (incl. Cajun) 1,977 0.4%
- Vietnamese 1,710 0.4%
- German 1,370 0.3%
- Tagalog 787 0.2%
- Korean 577 0.1%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 194,963
- Family households
- 114,065
- 58.5% of households
- Married w/ children
- 80,547
- Single-mother households
- 12,964
- Veterans
- 22,295
- 6% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
52.9% overall adherence rate
- Catholic 158,773 33.3%
- Evangelical Protestant 34,817 7.3%
- Mainline Protestant 27,007 5.7%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 20,932 4.4%
- Black Protestant 7,729 1.6%
- Orthodox 2,710 0.6%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 96.7%
- With a disability
- 13.8%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 38.1%
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
- 26
- 6.99 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 26
NHTSA FARS 2023