Jury Pool Profile

Carbon County, Pennsylvania

Republican +35 (2024)

Population: 65,191
Median household income: $67,877
Unemployment: 4.5%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 58,673 90.0%
Black or African American alone 1,518 2.3%
Asian alone 332 0.5%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 369 0.6%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
Some other race alone 889 1.4%
Two or more races 3,410 5.2%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4,154 6.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 46.3

Under 18 12,454 19.1%
18–24 4,543 7.0%
25–44 14,648 22.5%
45–64 19,143 29.4%
65 and over 14,403 22.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.5%; +0.23 pp vs. state
County GDP: $2.8B; 0.28% of state
Avg. annual pay: $44,741
Establishments: 1,305

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 5,098 30.6%
Leisure & hospitality 3,258 19.5%
Trade, transportation & utilities 2,682 16.1%
Manufacturing 1,220 7.3%
Public administration 855 5.1%
Information 853 5.1%
Professional & business services 757 4.5%
Construction 504 3.0%
Other services 492 3.0%
Natural resources & mining 380 2.3%
Financial activities 360 2.2%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 77.2%
Median gross rent: $975
Owner-occupied: 20,926
Renter-occupied: 6,167

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 35,395 votes cast

Republican 23,708 67.0%
Democratic 11,394 32.2%
Other / third-party 293 0.8%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

93.9% speak only English at home

Spanish 2,203 3.5%
Slavic languages 851 1.4%
German 250 0.4%
Other Indo-European 238 0.4%
Tagalog 74 0.1%
Chinese 70 0.1%
Other 59 0.1%
French (incl. Cajun) 44 0.1%
Other Asian/Pacific 26 0.0%
Vietnamese 4 0.0%
Arabic 1 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 27,093
Family households: 17,016; 62.8% of households
Married w/ children: 11,991
Single-mother households: 1,605
Veterans: 4,089; 7.8% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

35.9% overall adherence rate

Mainline Protestant 10,587 16.4%
Catholic 10,312 15.9%
Evangelical Protestant 1,724 2.7%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 434 0.7%
Orthodox 169 0.3%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 94.6%
With a disability: 16.6%
Bachelor's or higher: 18.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 56th Judicial District Court of Common Pleas
Judges: 2 (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: Jim Thorpe

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Pennsylvania statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 12; 22.75 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 11

NHTSA FARS 2023