Jury Pool Profile

Rensselaer County, New York

Democratic +1 (2024)

Population: 160,341
Median household income: $86,663
Unemployment: 3.6%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 130,533 81.4%
Black or African American alone 10,825 6.8%
Asian alone 4,977 3.1%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 207 0.1%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 11 0.0%
Some other race alone 3,501 2.2%
Two or more races 10,287 6.4%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 9,539 5.9%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 40.2

Under 18 30,842 19.2%
18–24 16,074 10.0%
25–44 42,679 26.6%
45–64 42,096 26.3%
65 and over 28,650 17.9%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.6%; -0.85 pp vs. state
County GDP: $15.5B; 0.67% of state
Avg. annual pay: $78,789
Establishments: 3,500

U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 17,301 30.5%
Trade, transportation & utilities 12,116 21.3%
Manufacturing 7,007 12.3%
Leisure & hospitality 4,744 8.4%
Professional & business services 3,906 6.9%
Construction 2,871 5.1%
Public administration 2,732 4.8%
Financial activities 1,824 3.2%
Other services 1,820 3.2%
Natural resources & mining 706 1.2%
Information 508 0.9%
Unclassified 152 0.3%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 64.1%
Median gross rent: $1,182
Owner-occupied: 42,452
Renter-occupied: 23,781

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 78,269 votes cast

Democratic 39,668 50.7%
Republican 38,601 49.3%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

92.1% speak only English at home

Spanish 4,116 2.7%
Other Indo-European 1,845 1.2%
Other Asian/Pacific 1,241 0.8%
Arabic 932 0.6%
Chinese 923 0.6%
Slavic languages 813 0.5%
French (incl. Cajun) 697 0.5%
Other 671 0.4%
German 461 0.3%
Tagalog 152 0.1%
Korean 91 0.1%
Vietnamese 84 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 66,233
Family households: 39,220; 59.2% of households
Married w/ children: 27,941
Single-mother households: 4,426
Veterans: 8,226; 6.4% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

30.3% overall adherence rate

Catholic 32,401 20.1%
Mainline Protestant 7,764 4.8%
Evangelical Protestant 5,423 3.4%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,524 0.9%
Black Protestant 1,300 0.8%
Orthodox 485 0.3%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 96.7%
With a disability: 14.3%
Bachelor's or higher: 37.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 3rd Judicial District Supreme Court
Judges: 12 (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: Albany, Catskill, Hudson, Kingston, Monticello, Schoharie, Troy

Court reference

Traffic safety context

New York statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 12; 9.27 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 11

NHTSA FARS 2023