Jury Pool Profile
Orange County, New York
Republican +8 (2024)
- Population
- 403,840
- Median household income
- $96,497
- Unemployment
- 3.9%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 259,798 64.3%
- Black or African American alone 46,085 11.4%
- Asian alone 11,475 2.8%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 4,390 1.1%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 171 0.0%
- Some other race alone 38,076 9.4%
- Two or more races 43,845 10.9%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 93,608 23.2%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 36.9
- Under 18 103,740 25.7%
- 18–24 41,468 10.3%
- 25–44 97,661 24.2%
- 45–64 103,026 25.5%
- 65 and over 57,945 14.3%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 3.9%
- -0.55 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $27.7B
- 1.19% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $62,619
- Establishments
- 11,900
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 42,797 27.5%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 42,407 27.3%
- Professional & business services 15,778 10.1%
- Leisure & hospitality 14,741 9.5%
- Manufacturing 8,569 5.5%
- Construction 7,506 4.8%
- Public administration 6,762 4.3%
- Other services 6,668 4.3%
- Financial activities 4,422 2.8%
- Information 2,239 1.4%
- Natural resources & mining 1,500 1.0%
- Unclassified 760 0.5%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 68.4%
- Median gross rent
- $1,602
- Owner-occupied
- 93,959
- Renter-occupied
- 43,352
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 175,189 votes cast
- Republican 94,936 54.2%
- Democratic 80,253 45.8%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
70.8% speak only English at home
- Spanish 55,418 14.7%
- German 31,456 8.4%
- Other Indo-European 7,016 1.9%
- French (incl. Cajun) 3,794 1.0%
- Slavic languages 3,080 0.8%
- Chinese 2,764 0.7%
- Other 2,188 0.6%
- Other Asian/Pacific 1,586 0.4%
- Tagalog 997 0.3%
- Arabic 902 0.2%
- Vietnamese 511 0.1%
- Korean 440 0.1%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 137,311
- Family households
- 97,165
- 70.8% of households
- Married w/ children
- 74,041
- Single-mother households
- 7,454
- Veterans
- 16,695
- 5.6% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
44.2% overall adherence rate
- Catholic 99,928 24.9%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 48,281 12.0%
- Evangelical Protestant 13,832 3.4%
- Mainline Protestant 13,314 3.3%
- Black Protestant 1,515 0.4%
- Orthodox 590 0.1%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 95.2%
- With a disability
- 11.3%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 32.2%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 9th Judicial District Supreme Court
- Judges
- 18 (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
- Carmel Hamlet, Goshen, New City, Poughkeepsie, White Plains
This judicial district spans multiple countys.
Traffic safety context
New York statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 29
- 9.66 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 27
NHTSA FARS 2023