Jury Pool Profile
Lexington County, South Carolina
Republican +34 (2024)
- Population
- 300,370
- Median household income
- $75,014
- Unemployment
- 4.0%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 220,420 73.4%
- Black or African American alone 44,926 15.0%
- Asian alone 6,438 2.1%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 759 0.3%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 196 0.1%
- Some other race alone 7,386 2.5%
- Two or more races 20,245 6.7%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 22,831 7.6%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 39.7
- Under 18 69,460 23.1%
- 18–24 22,580 7.5%
- 25–44 79,086 26.3%
- 45–64 79,040 26.3%
- 65 and over 50,204 16.7%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 4.0%
- -0.61 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $19.8B
- 5.53% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $56,005
- Establishments
- 8,854
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Trade, transportation & utilities 35,293 26.6%
- Education & health services 29,951 22.6%
- Professional & business services 13,735 10.4%
- Leisure & hospitality 13,532 10.2%
- Manufacturing 12,593 9.5%
- Construction 8,005 6.0%
- Public administration 5,533 4.2%
- Other services 4,946 3.7%
- Financial activities 4,708 3.6%
- Information 1,806 1.4%
- Natural resources & mining 797 0.6%
- Unclassified 1 0.0%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 76.9%
- Median gross rent
- $1,115
- Owner-occupied
- 92,829
- Renter-occupied
- 27,960
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 146,903 votes cast
- Republican 96,965 66.0%
- Democratic 47,815 32.5%
- Other / third-party 2,123 1.4%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
90.9% speak only English at home
- Spanish 15,997 5.6%
- Other Indo-European 2,495 0.9%
- Other 1,485 0.5%
- Other Asian/Pacific 1,394 0.5%
- Slavic languages 918 0.3%
- Chinese 885 0.3%
- German 751 0.3%
- French (incl. Cajun) 617 0.2%
- Arabic 465 0.2%
- Tagalog 337 0.1%
- Korean 174 0.1%
- Vietnamese 152 0.1%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 120,789
- Family households
- 81,243
- 67.3% of households
- Married w/ children
- 60,647
- Single-mother households
- 7,459
- Veterans
- 21,666
- 9.4% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
52.9% overall adherence rate
- Evangelical Protestant 75,591 25.7%
- Mainline Protestant 39,116 13.3%
- Catholic 25,067 8.5%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 8,129 2.8%
- Black Protestant 7,280 2.5%
- Orthodox 240 0.1%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 91.0%
- With a disability
- 13.6%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 33.1%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 11th Judicial Circuit Court
- Judges
- 4 (At-large Circuit Court judges elected to this circuit; vintage 2026 sccourts.org)
- Court seats
- Edgefield, Lexington, McCormick, Saluda
This judicial district spans multiple countys.
Traffic safety context
South Carolina statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 47
- 20.35 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 46
NHTSA FARS 2023