Queens County, New York

• White (non-Hispanic) 538,469 23.2%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 652,505 28.1%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 379,738 16.3%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 601,394 25.9%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 87,906 3.8%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 6,757 0.3%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 1,585 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 54,698 2.4%

• Under 18 453,675 19.5%
• 18–24 170,968 7.4%
• 25–44 666,035 28.7%
• 45–64 618,836 26.6%
• 65 and over 413,538 17.8%

Median household income

$84,684

90% interval $83,166–$86,202

−$1,084 vs NY · 12th of 62

Below poverty line

13.4%

90% interval 12.5%–14.3%

−0.6 pp vs NY · 25th of 62

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.8%

+0.21 pp vs. state

County GDP

$143.1B

6.16% of state

Avg. annual pay

$71,044

Establishments

57,626

• Education & health services 275,642 36.7%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 162,151 21.6%
• Leisure & hospitality 64,886 8.6%
• Professional & business services 58,187 7.7%
• Public administration 51,376 6.8%
• Construction 48,538 6.5%
• Financial activities 27,488 3.7%
• Other services 26,222 3.5%
• Manufacturing 14,639 1.9%
• Information 7,682 1.0%
• Unclassified 5,265 0.7%
• Natural resources & mining 138 0.0%

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

Home ownership

44.9%

−9.4 pp vs NY · 59th of 62

Median gross rent

$1,956

+$335 vs NY · 4th of 62

Owner-occupied

377,295

Renter-occupied

463,708

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 67% 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 (Public administration, $117,055/yr) pays 2.9× the lowest (Other services, $40,866/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 13 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 437,282 62.3%
• Republican 264,628 37.7%

• Spanish 511,763 23.3%
• Chinese 210,400 9.6%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 68,482 3.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 40,538 1.8%
• Korean 39,081 1.8%
• Tagalog 31,107 1.4%
• Arabic 20,461 0.9%
• German or other West Germanic 6,326 0.3%
• Vietnamese 3,218 0.1%

Households

841,003

Family households

554,812

66.0% of households

Married couples w/ children

134,949

24.3% of families

Single-mother families

45,863

8.3% of families

Veterans

35,435

1.9% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 753,394 31.3%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 326,570 13.6%
• Evangelical Protestant 114,779 4.8%
• Black Protestant 53,134 2.2%
• Mainline Protestant 40,153 1.7%
• Orthodox 22,183 0.9%

Health insured

91.8%

±0.2 pp

Uninsured

8.2%

±0.2 pp

3rd of 62

With a disability

10.9%

±0.2 pp

57th of 62

Bachelor's or higher

36.1%

±0.4 pp

−4.1 pp vs NY · 20th of 62

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.4%

90% interval 8.0%–8.8% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

11th Judicial District Supreme Court

Judges

30 (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

Queens

Traffic fatalities

73

3.91 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

67