Jury Pool Profile

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Republican +16 (2024)

Population: 555,151
Median household income: $83,703
Unemployment: 3.3%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 460,035 82.9%
Black or African American alone 22,176 4.0%
Asian alone 13,086 2.4%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 987 0.2%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 517 0.1%
Some other race alone 22,231 4.0%
Two or more races 36,119 6.5%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 62,574 11.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 39.1

Under 18 129,093 23.3%
18–24 48,520 8.7%
25–44 137,433 24.8%
45–64 133,525 24.1%
65 and over 106,580 19.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.3%; -1.03 pp vs. state
County GDP: $40.0B; 3.96% of state
Avg. annual pay: $59,966
Establishments: 14,605

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 60,184 23.9%
Trade, transportation & utilities 58,177 23.1%
Manufacturing 37,215 14.8%
Leisure & hospitality 25,482 10.1%
Professional & business services 23,770 9.4%
Construction 18,895 7.5%
Financial activities 9,165 3.6%
Other services 8,342 3.3%
Public administration 4,486 1.8%
Natural resources & mining 3,779 1.5%
Information 2,072 0.8%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 69.9%
Median gross rent: $1,289
Owner-occupied: 147,259
Renter-occupied: 63,277

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 289,257 votes cast

Republican 166,261 57.5%
Democratic 120,119 41.5%
Other / third-party 2,877 1.0%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

83.6% speak only English at home

Spanish 34,456 6.6%
German 30,555 5.9%
Other Indo-European 5,039 1.0%
Other 3,557 0.7%
Slavic languages 2,468 0.5%
Other Asian/Pacific 1,964 0.4%
Vietnamese 1,911 0.4%
French (incl. Cajun) 1,782 0.3%
Chinese 1,630 0.3%
Tagalog 904 0.2%
Arabic 656 0.1%
Korean 420 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 210,536
Family households: 145,236; 69.0% of households
Married w/ children: 118,057
Single-mother households: 8,434
Veterans: 24,963; 5.9% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

47.2% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 145,694 26.3%
Mainline Protestant 50,236 9.1%
Catholic 49,653 9.0%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 11,039 2.0%
Orthodox 2,145 0.4%
Black Protestant 2,102 0.4%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 89.0%
With a disability: 11.8%
Bachelor's or higher: 31.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 2nd Judicial District Court of Common Pleas
Judges: 9 (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: Lancaster

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Pennsylvania statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 51; 11.97 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 49

NHTSA FARS 2023