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Jury Pool Profile

Montour County, Pennsylvania

Republican +21.0 (2024)
County seat
Danville
Judicial district
26th Judicial District Court of Common Pleas
Population (July 2025 estimate)
17,868
Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 18,103.

At a glance

Montour County is a 17,868-person venue. The county population is 90% White (Census race-alone categories). Median household income is $78,039; 38.7% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 7.6% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, most commonly Spanish, then other Indo-European languages (1.8%), a group the Census does not break out. The largest employment sector is Education & health services, at 56.4% of covered employment, average pay $103,402/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.19%, below the 4.25% state average. The county carried the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking 60% to 62% of the vote across the three.

Population
18,103
Median household income
$76,976
Unemployment
3.2%

Who sits on a jury?

Predominantly White

≥70% White (race-alone) and <20% Black. This county: 90% / 2%.

Montour County has a population of 18,103, with a median age of 42.9. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 89.7%; Black residents 2.4%. Independently, 3.1% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The median household earns $78,039; 38.7% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 9.8% live below the federal poverty line.

Race & ethnicity
  • White (non-Hispanic) 16,112 89.0%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 564 3.1%
  • Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 428 2.4%
  • Asian (non-Hispanic) 622 3.4%
  • Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 333 1.8%
  • American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 4 0.0%
  • Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
  • Some other race (non-Hispanic) 40 0.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Age distribution

Median age 42.9

  • Under 18 3,642 20.1%
  • 18–24 1,101 6.1%
  • 25–44 4,838 26.7%
  • 45–64 4,581 25.3%
  • 65 and over 3,941 21.8%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Income & poverty
Median household income
$78,039
90% interval $70,021–$86,057
+$507 vs PA · 15th of 67
Below poverty line
9.8%
90% interval 7.6%–12.0%
−1.8 pp vs PA · 53rd of 67

U.S. Census SAIPE 2024

Economic context

Healthcare & education anchored

Largest sector in BLS QCEW, even counting every withheld job toward the other sectors: Education & health services, about 56% of covered jobs.

Education & health services is the largest employment sector at 56.4% of covered employment, followed by Professional & business services at 11.7%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.19%, below the Pennsylvania state average.

Local economy
Unemployment (12-mo)
3.2%
−1.06 pp vs. state
County GDP
$2.8B
0.28% of state
Avg. annual pay
$87,609
Establishments
490

U.S. BLS 2026M07 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2025

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

  • Education & health services 9,716 56.4%
  • Professional & business services 2,024 11.7%
  • Financial activities 1,153 6.7%
  • Trade, transportation & utilities 1,096 6.4%
  • Leisure & hospitality 725 4.2%
  • Manufacturing 645 3.7%
  • Natural resources & mining 395 2.3%
  • Other services 320 1.9%
  • Public administration 244 1.4%
  • Construction 140 0.8%
  • Information 15 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 95.6% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

BLS QCEW 2025

Housing
Home ownership
68.5%
−0.8 pp vs PA · 59th of 67
Median gross rent
$1,142
−$67 vs PA · 17th of 67
Owner-occupied
5,385
Renter-occupied
2,477

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Local economy in 3 reads
  • Concentrated

    Top three sectors employ 75% of the county workforce. Most panelists likely share employer relationships within these sectors, surface those connections early in voir dire before any institutional-defendant or sector-specific framing.

  • Wide wage spread

    Highest-paid sector (Education & health services, $103,402/yr) pays 4.5× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $22,989/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

  • Institutional employer scale

    Average establishment employs 35 workers, typical of an institutional-employer economy where large hospitals, plants, schools, and government agencies dominate. Expect many panelists to share an employer rather than work for themselves.

BLS QCEW 2025

Political composition

Consistently strongly Republican

Republican candidate carried this county in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (avg winning share: 60%). 'Strongly' threshold: ≥60% avg.

Montour County was carried by the Republican candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 60.0% in 2024, 59.5% in 2020, 61.8% in 2016.

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 9,908 votes cast

  • Republican
  • Democratic
Presidential vote share by year
YearRepublicanDemocratic
201661.8%33.4%
202059.5%38.4%
202460.0%39.0%
  • Republican 5,944 60.0%
  • Democratic 3,862 39.0%
  • Other / third-party 102 1.0%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Family-majority, English-speaking

Family households are 64% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 7.6% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).

7.6% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, German or other West Germanic, Tagalog. Veterans account for 7.7% of the adult civilian population (1,104 individuals).

Languages spoken at home

92.4% speak only English at home

  • Spanish 386 2.3%
  • German or other West Germanic 282 1.6%
  • Tagalog 103 0.6%
  • French, Haitian, or Cajun 67 0.4%
  • Arabic 48 0.3%
  • Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 27 0.2%
  • Chinese 26 0.2%
  • Korean 1 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Household composition
Households
7,862
Family households
5,060
64.4% of households
Married couples w/ children
1,295
25.6% of families
Single-mother families
403
8.0% of families
Veterans
1,104
7.7% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Religious composition

37.2% overall adherence rate

  • Mainline Protestant 2,944 16.2%
  • Catholic 2,523 13.9%
  • Evangelical Protestant 1,287 7.1%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education
Health insured
96.3%
±1 pp
Uninsured
3.7%
±1 pp
62nd of 67
With a disability
13.5%
±1.7 pp
55th of 67
Bachelor's or higher
38.7%
±3.1 pp
+3.5 pp vs PA · 9th of 67
Uninsured, under 65 (2024)
5.7%
90% interval 4.9%–6.5% · Census SAHIE

The under-65 uninsured rate is not comparable to the ACS insurance figures, which cover all ages.

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Court infrastructure

Court infrastructure
Trial court
26th 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
Bloomsburg, Danville

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Court reference
Traffic safety context

Montour totals, 2024 — the per-100k rate is based on 6 recorded deaths, too few to be statistically reliable

Traffic fatalities
6
41.49 per 100k adults (18+)
Fatal crashes
5

NHTSA FARS 2024

About this profile

This profile aggregates publicly available U.S. government statistics for Montour County, Pennsylvania to give trial attorneys venue context for jury selection. It describes the general population of the county, not the qualified jury wheel, and is not legal advice or a substitute for the court's juror records.

Sources as of: U.S. Census ACS 2024 · U.S. BLS 2026M07 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2025 · Election results 2024 · NHTSA FARS 2024 · US Religion Census 2020.

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