Jury Pool Profile

Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania

Democratic +3 (2024)

Population: 215,834
Median household income: $64,691
Unemployment: 4.5%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 180,058 83.4%
Black or African American alone 6,635 3.1%
Asian alone 6,389 3.0%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 164 0.1%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 89 0.0%
Some other race alone 6,669 3.1%
Two or more races 15,830 7.3%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 19,782 9.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 41.9

Under 18 44,299 20.5%
18–24 19,178 8.9%
25–44 52,148 24.2%
45–64 56,493 26.2%
65 and over 43,716 20.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.5%; +0.18 pp vs. state
County GDP: $13.4B; 1.33% of state
Avg. annual pay: $53,720
Establishments: 5,565

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 29,518 30.1%
Trade, transportation & utilities 23,250 23.7%
Manufacturing 10,209 10.4%
Leisure & hospitality 9,665 9.9%
Professional & business services 8,697 8.9%
Financial activities 4,273 4.4%
Construction 3,717 3.8%
Public administration 3,405 3.5%
Other services 3,045 3.1%
Information 970 1.0%
Natural resources & mining 485 0.5%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 65.4%
Median gross rent: $973
Owner-occupied: 57,698
Renter-occupied: 30,568

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 116,590 votes cast

Democratic 59,510 51.0%
Republican 56,261 48.3%
Other / third-party 819 0.7%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

89.9% speak only English at home

Spanish 11,181 5.5%
Other Indo-European 4,382 2.1%
Other Asian/Pacific 1,200 0.6%
Slavic languages 1,077 0.5%
Other 597 0.3%
German 494 0.2%
Tagalog 471 0.2%
Chinese 427 0.2%
French (incl. Cajun) 289 0.1%
Arabic 217 0.1%
Korean 137 0.1%
Vietnamese 116 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 88,266
Family households: 53,778; 60.9% of households
Married w/ children: 37,338
Single-mother households: 6,422
Veterans: 10,934; 6.4% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

63.2% overall adherence rate

Catholic 96,397 44.6%
Evangelical Protestant 17,809 8.2%
Mainline Protestant 11,865 5.5%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 8,801 4.1%
Orthodox 1,371 0.6%
Black Protestant 100 0.0%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 95.3%
With a disability: 16.2%
Bachelor's or higher: 30.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 45th Judicial District Court of Common Pleas
Judges: 8 (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: Scranton

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Pennsylvania statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 18; 10.49 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 18

NHTSA FARS 2023