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Beaver County, Pennsylvania

Republican +20.7 (2024)
County seat
Beaver
Judicial district
36th Judicial District Court of Common Pleas
Population (July 2025 estimate)
166,032
Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 166,324.

At a glance

Beaver County is a 166,032-person venue. The county population is 87% White and 6% Black (Census race-alone categories). Median household income is $73,077, $4,455 below the PA state median of $77,532; 28.7% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 3.3% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, most commonly Spanish and German or other West Germanic. The largest employment sector is Education & health services, at 27.8% of covered employment, average pay $58,015/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 4.27%, above the 4.25% state average. The county carried the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking 58% to 60% of the vote across the three.

Population
166,324
Median household income
$71,089
Unemployment
4.3%

Who sits on a jury?

Predominantly White

≥70% White (race-alone) and <20% Black. This county: 87% / 6%.

Beaver County has a population of 166,324, with a median age of 44.7. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 86.9%; Black residents 6.2%. Independently, 2.4% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The median household earns $73,077; 28.7% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 11.2% live below the federal poverty line.

Race & ethnicity
  • White (non-Hispanic) 143,523 86.3%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3,968 2.4%
  • Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 10,253 6.2%
  • Asian (non-Hispanic) 795 0.5%
  • Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 7,145 4.3%
  • American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 55 0.0%
  • Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 24 0.0%
  • Some other race (non-Hispanic) 561 0.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Age distribution

Median age 44.7

  • Under 18 32,226 19.4%
  • 18–24 11,767 7.1%
  • 25–44 39,832 23.9%
  • 45–64 44,874 27.0%
  • 65 and over 37,625 22.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Income & poverty
Median household income
$73,077
90% interval $68,813–$77,341
−$4,455 vs PA · 25th of 67
Below poverty line
11.2%
90% interval 9.2%–13.2%
−0.4 pp vs PA · 41st of 67

U.S. Census SAIPE 2024

Economic context

Led by healthcare & education and trade & transportation

Largest sector in BLS QCEW: Education & health services, about 13,500 jobs; Trade, transportation & utilities, about 11,940, is within 20% of it, counting the jobs BLS withholds.

Education & health services is the largest employment sector at 27.8% of covered employment, followed by Trade, transportation & utilities at 24.3%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 4.27%, above the Pennsylvania state average.

Local economy
Unemployment (12-mo)
4.3%
+0.02 pp vs. state
County GDP
$8.0B
0.8% of state
Avg. annual pay
$60,865
Establishments
3,590

U.S. BLS 2026M07 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2025

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

  • Education & health services 13,504 27.8%
  • Trade, transportation & utilities 11,778 24.3%
  • Manufacturing 6,440 13.3%
  • Leisure & hospitality 5,222 10.8%
  • Professional & business services 3,738 7.7%
  • Construction 2,732 5.6%
  • Public administration 1,825 3.8%
  • Other services 1,623 3.3%
  • Financial activities 1,137 2.3%
  • Information 186 0.4%
  • Natural resources & mining 85 0.2%

The sectors listed cover 99.4% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

BLS QCEW 2025

Housing
Home ownership
75.0%
+5.7 pp vs PA · 35th of 67
Median gross rent
$890
−$319 vs PA · 35th of 67
Owner-occupied
54,222
Renter-occupied
18,035

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Local economy in 3 reads
  • Concentrated

    Top three sectors employ 65% 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.

  • Wide wage spread

    Highest-paid sector (Manufacturing, $92,668/yr) pays 4.4× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $20,928/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

  • Mixed business scale

    Average establishment employs 14 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

BLS QCEW 2025

Political composition

Consistently Republican

Republican candidate carried this county in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (avg winning share: 59%). 'Strongly' threshold: ≥60% avg.

Beaver County was carried by the Republican candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 59.9% in 2024, 58.2% in 2020, 58.3% in 2016.

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 94,843 votes cast

  • Republican
  • Democratic
Presidential vote share by year
YearRepublicanDemocratic
201658.3%38.2%
202058.2%40.5%
202459.9%39.2%
  • Republican 56,837 59.9%
  • Democratic 37,196 39.2%
  • Other / third-party 810 0.9%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Family-majority, English-speaking

Family households are 62% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 3.3% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).

3.3% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, German or other West Germanic, Russian, Polish, or other Slavic. Veterans account for 7.7% of the adult civilian population (10,302 individuals).

Languages spoken at home

96.7% speak only English at home

  • Spanish 2,148 1.4%
  • German or other West Germanic 536 0.3%
  • Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 526 0.3%
  • French, Haitian, or Cajun 316 0.2%
  • Arabic 156 0.1%
  • Korean 133 0.1%
  • Chinese 96 0.1%
  • Vietnamese 42 0.0%
  • Tagalog 30 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Household composition
Households
72,257
Family households
44,950
62.2% of households
Married couples w/ children
10,878
24.2% of families
Single-mother families
3,908
8.7% of families
Veterans
10,302
7.7% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Religious composition

50.0% overall adherence rate

  • Catholic 44,695 26.6%
  • Evangelical Protestant 16,379 9.7%
  • Mainline Protestant 13,688 8.1%
  • Black Protestant 4,219 2.5%
  • Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,783 1.7%
  • Orthodox 2,376 1.4%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education
Health insured
96.1%
±0.4 pp
Uninsured
3.9%
±0.4 pp
56th of 67
With a disability
15.0%
±0.5 pp
44th of 67
Bachelor's or higher
28.7%
±1.1 pp
−6.5 pp vs PA · 20th of 67
Uninsured, under 65 (2024)
5.6%
90% interval 5.0%–6.2% · Census SAHIE

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

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Court infrastructure

Court infrastructure
Trial court
36th Judicial District Court of Common Pleas
Judges
4 (Court of Common Pleas judges per district (general civil + felony criminal + family + orphans' court jurisdiction); vintage 2026 pacourts.us; cross-checked against 42 Pa. C.S. § 911. Magisterial District Judges (limited jurisdiction: preliminary criminal, landlord-tenant, small civil up to $12K) are separately allocated and not counted here. Philadelphia Municipal Court (limited civil + minor criminal in Philadelphia only) also separate.)
Court seats
Beaver
Court reference
Traffic safety context

Beaver totals, 2024 — the per-100k rate is based on 4 recorded deaths, too few to be statistically reliable

Traffic fatalities
4
2.98 per 100k adults (18+)
Fatal crashes
4

NHTSA FARS 2024

About this profile

This profile aggregates publicly available U.S. government statistics for Beaver County, Pennsylvania to give trial attorneys venue context for jury selection. It describes the general population of the county, not the qualified jury wheel, and is not legal advice or a substitute for the court's juror records.

Sources as of: U.S. Census ACS 2024 · U.S. BLS 2026M07 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2025 · Election results 2024 · NHTSA FARS 2024 · US Religion Census 2020.

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