Jury Pool Profile

Berkeley County, South Carolina

Republican +16 (2024)

Population: 238,723
Median household income: $82,327
Unemployment: 4.1%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 150,619 63.1%
Black or African American alone 55,308 23.2%
Asian alone 5,568 2.3%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 954 0.4%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 183 0.1%
Some other race alone 9,048 3.8%
Two or more races 17,043 7.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 21,150 8.9%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 36.7

Under 18 56,817 23.8%
18–24 21,922 9.2%
25–44 67,096 28.1%
45–64 58,169 24.4%
65 and over 34,719 14.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.1%; -0.48 pp vs. state
County GDP: $14.3B; 4.01% of state
Avg. annual pay: $68,211
Establishments: 5,143

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Trade, transportation & utilities 16,186 24.2%
Manufacturing 10,512 15.7%
Education & health services 10,266 15.3%
Professional & business services 8,877 13.3%
Leisure & hospitality 7,187 10.7%
Construction 4,202 6.3%
Public administration 2,683 4.0%
Financial activities 2,412 3.6%
Other services 2,010 3.0%
Information 1,771 2.6%
Natural resources & mining 156 0.2%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 74.1%
Median gross rent: $1,518
Owner-occupied: 66,951
Renter-occupied: 23,397

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 112,834 votes cast

Republican 64,777 57.4%
Democratic 46,416 41.1%
Other / third-party 1,641 1.5%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

90.7% speak only English at home

Spanish 13,261 5.9%
Tagalog 1,875 0.8%
Other Indo-European 1,636 0.7%
Other Asian/Pacific 937 0.4%
German 757 0.3%
French (incl. Cajun) 540 0.2%
Other 503 0.2%
Vietnamese 437 0.2%
Chinese 397 0.2%
Slavic languages 370 0.2%
Arabic 149 0.1%
Korean 60 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 90,348
Family households: 62,229; 68.9% of households
Married w/ children: 46,275
Single-mother households: 5,918
Veterans: 21,799; 12.5% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

36.0% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 39,233 17.1%
Catholic 24,850 10.8%
Mainline Protestant 7,805 3.4%
Black Protestant 7,214 3.1%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 3,623 1.6%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 90.1%
With a disability: 13.3%
Bachelor's or higher: 29.9%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 9th Judicial Circuit Court
Judges: 10 (At-large Circuit Court judges elected to this circuit; vintage 2026 sccourts.org)
Court seats: Charleston, Moncks Corner

Court reference

Traffic safety context

South Carolina statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 61; 33.53 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 58

NHTSA FARS 2023