Jury Pool Profile

Centre County, Pennsylvania

Democratic +3 (2024)

Population: 158,041
Median household income: $72,748
Unemployment: 3.2%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 134,114 84.9%
Black or African American alone 5,265 3.3%
Asian alone 9,569 6.1%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 259 0.2%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 49 0.0%
Some other race alone 950 0.6%
Two or more races 7,835 5.0%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5,630 3.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 33.8

Under 18 23,339 14.8%
18–24 37,179 23.5%
25–44 38,065 24.1%
45–64 34,909 22.1%
65 and over 24,549 15.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.2%; -1.12 pp vs. state
County GDP: $11.2B; 1.12% of state
Avg. annual pay: $62,822
Establishments: 3,610

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 12,567 18.3%
Trade, transportation & utilities 9,738 14.2%
Leisure & hospitality 7,506 10.9%
Professional & business services 5,323 7.8%
Manufacturing 4,328 6.3%
Public administration 3,187 4.6%
Construction 2,879 4.2%
Financial activities 2,275 3.3%
Other services 1,946 2.8%
Information 939 1.4%
Natural resources & mining 423 0.6%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 61.8%
Median gross rent: $1,181
Owner-occupied: 36,440
Renter-occupied: 22,566

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 80,792 votes cast

Democratic 41,119 50.9%
Republican 38,829 48.1%
Other / third-party 844 1.0%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

87.2% speak only English at home

Chinese 3,873 2.5%
German 3,630 2.4%
Spanish 3,559 2.3%
Other Indo-European 2,668 1.8%
Other Asian/Pacific 1,492 1.0%
Slavic languages 1,061 0.7%
Other 929 0.6%
Korean 920 0.6%
Arabic 614 0.4%
French (incl. Cajun) 436 0.3%
Tagalog 217 0.1%
Vietnamese 166 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 59,006
Family households: 32,524; 55.1% of households
Married w/ children: 27,010
Single-mother households: 1,687
Veterans: 6,971; 5.2% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

33.9% overall adherence rate

Mainline Protestant 18,902 12.0%
Catholic 15,795 10.0%
Evangelical Protestant 15,356 9.7%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 3,191 2.0%
Black Protestant 210 0.1%
Orthodox 205 0.1%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 94.5%
With a disability: 10.7%
Bachelor's or higher: 46.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 49th Judicial District Court of Common Pleas
Judges: 3 (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: Bellefonte

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Pennsylvania statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 15; 11.14 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 13

NHTSA FARS 2023