Jury Pool Profile

Laurens County, South Carolina

Republican +41 (2024)

Population: 67,904
Median household income: $55,517
Unemployment: 5.0%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 45,795 67.4%
Black or African American alone 15,629 23.0%
Asian alone 362 0.5%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 589 0.9%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 62 0.1%
Some other race alone 1,805 2.7%
Two or more races 3,662 5.4%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4,303 6.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 40.9

Under 18 14,947 22.0%
18–24 5,682 8.4%
25–44 16,460 24.2%
45–64 18,012 26.5%
65 and over 12,803 18.9%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 5.0%; +0.37 pp vs. state
County GDP: $2.9B; 0.82% of state
Avg. annual pay: $51,561
Establishments: 1,049

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Manufacturing 7,000 34.7%
Education & health services 3,974 19.7%
Trade, transportation & utilities 3,409 16.9%
Leisure & hospitality 1,557 7.7%
Professional & business services 1,093 5.4%
Public administration 941 4.7%
Construction 656 3.2%
Financial activities 336 1.7%
Other services 284 1.4%
Natural resources & mining 104 0.5%
Information 82 0.4%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 70.7%
Median gross rent: $847
Owner-occupied: 18,576
Renter-occupied: 7,715

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 30,213 votes cast

Republican 21,110 69.9%
Democratic 8,769 29.0%
Other / third-party 334 1.1%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

94.3% speak only English at home

Spanish 2,751 4.3%
Other 226 0.4%
Other Indo-European 193 0.3%
Other Asian/Pacific 157 0.2%
French (incl. Cajun) 125 0.2%
German 90 0.1%
Slavic languages 42 0.1%
Tagalog 30 0.0%
Chinese 28 0.0%
Korean 16 0.0%
Vietnamese 14 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 26,291
Family households: 17,409; 66.2% of households
Married w/ children: 12,336
Single-mother households: 1,872
Veterans: 3,479; 6.6% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

56.5% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 28,072 41.6%
Mainline Protestant 4,121 6.1%
Black Protestant 4,114 6.1%
Catholic 1,419 2.1%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 465 0.7%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 87.3%
With a disability: 17.4%
Bachelor's or higher: 17.9%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 8th Judicial Circuit Court
Judges: 3 (At-large Circuit Court judges elected to this circuit; vintage 2026 sccourts.org)
Court seats: Abbeville, Greenwood, Laurens, Newberry

Court reference

Traffic safety context

South Carolina statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 26; 49.1 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 23

NHTSA FARS 2023