Jury Pool Profile
Franklin County, Pennsylvania
Republican +43 (2024)
- Population
- 156,626
- Median household income
- $74,946
- Unemployment
- 3.6%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 137,549 87.8%
- Black or African American alone 5,056 3.2%
- Asian alone 1,488 1.0%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 561 0.4%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 25 0.0%
- Some other race alone 4,213 2.7%
- Two or more races 7,734 4.9%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 11,218 7.2%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 42.2
- Under 18 34,639 22.1%
- 18–24 11,472 7.3%
- 25–44 37,525 24.0%
- 45–64 41,703 26.6%
- 65 and over 31,287 20.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 3.6%
- -0.65 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $8.4B
- 0.83% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $55,554
- Establishments
- 3,466
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Trade, transportation & utilities 17,612 29.2%
- Education & health services 12,638 20.9%
- Manufacturing 9,030 14.9%
- Leisure & hospitality 5,067 8.4%
- Professional & business services 4,838 8.0%
- Public administration 3,057 5.1%
- Construction 2,467 4.1%
- Other services 2,031 3.4%
- Natural resources & mining 1,701 2.8%
- Financial activities 1,464 2.4%
- Information 221 0.4%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 73.2%
- Median gross rent
- $1,071
- Owner-occupied
- 46,146
- Renter-occupied
- 16,882
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 83,884 votes cast
- Republican 59,604 71.1%
- Democratic 23,543 28.1%
- Other / third-party 737 0.9%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
92.5% speak only English at home
- Spanish 7,387 5.0%
- German 1,664 1.1%
- Other Indo-European 531 0.4%
- Slavic languages 338 0.2%
- Other Asian/Pacific 311 0.2%
- French (incl. Cajun) 293 0.2%
- Chinese 176 0.1%
- Other 122 0.1%
- Korean 99 0.1%
- Arabic 91 0.1%
- Tagalog 82 0.1%
- Vietnamese 15 0.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 63,028
- Family households
- 42,354
- 67.2% of households
- Married w/ children
- 33,411
- Single-mother households
- 3,324
- Veterans
- 10,768
- 8.8% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
32.8% overall adherence rate
- Evangelical Protestant 25,628 16.4%
- Mainline Protestant 13,502 8.7%
- Catholic 8,707 5.6%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,053 1.3%
- Black Protestant 1,158 0.7%
- Orthodox 100 0.1%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 90.9%
- With a disability
- 15.9%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 24.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 39th 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
- Chambersburg, McConnellsburg
This judicial district spans multiple countys.
Traffic safety context
Pennsylvania statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 31
- 25.41 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 25
NHTSA FARS 2023