Jury Pool Profile
Pennington County, South Dakota
Republican +26 (2024)
- Population
- 112,081
- Median household income
- $70,768
- Unemployment
- 2.0%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 90,040 80.3%
- Black or African American alone 1,463 1.3%
- Asian alone 1,231 1.1%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 7,905 7.1%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 25 0.0%
- Some other race alone 1,288 1.1%
- Two or more races 10,129 9.0%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6,165 5.5%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 39.7
- Under 18 24,919 22.2%
- 18–24 9,409 8.4%
- 25–44 27,763 24.8%
- 45–64 27,997 25.0%
- 65 and over 21,993 19.6%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 2.0%
- -0.13 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $8.7B
- 11.31% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $57,286
- Establishments
- 5,799
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 14,601 23.5%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 12,656 20.4%
- Leisure & hospitality 9,405 15.1%
- Professional & business services 6,403 10.3%
- Construction 4,812 7.7%
- Public administration 4,183 6.7%
- Financial activities 3,115 5.0%
- Other services 2,739 4.4%
- Manufacturing 2,524 4.1%
- Information 685 1.1%
- Natural resources & mining 261 0.4%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 69.1%
- Median gross rent
- $1,066
- Owner-occupied
- 31,568
- Renter-occupied
- 14,130
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 56,580 votes cast
- Republican 35,009 61.9%
- Democratic 20,051 35.4%
- Other / third-party 1,520 2.7%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
96.3% speak only English at home
- Spanish 1,160 1.1%
- Other 904 0.9%
- German 524 0.5%
- Tagalog 326 0.3%
- Other Indo-European 224 0.2%
- Arabic 193 0.2%
- Other Asian/Pacific 174 0.2%
- Slavic languages 109 0.1%
- French (incl. Cajun) 108 0.1%
- Korean 96 0.1%
- Vietnamese 43 0.0%
- Chinese 1 0.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 45,698
- Family households
- 27,117
- 59.3% of households
- Married w/ children
- 21,348
- Single-mother households
- 2,271
- Veterans
- 10,954
- 12.8% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
49.1% overall adherence rate
- Evangelical Protestant 30,720 28.1%
- Mainline Protestant 11,037 10.1%
- Catholic 8,738 8.0%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,866 2.6%
- Black Protestant 200 0.2%
- Orthodox 30 0.0%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 89.5%
- With a disability
- 14.9%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 34.1%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 7th Judicial Circuit Court
- Judges
- 6 (Circuit Court judges per circuit (general civil + felony criminal trial jurisdiction); vintage 2026 ujs.sd.gov directory + SDCL § 16-5-1. SD has 46 Circuit Court judges statewide (2025 UJS Guide to South Dakota Courts); the per-circuit figures shown are approximate (judges may sit by assignment across circuits). Magistrate Court judges (limited jurisdiction — misdemeanors, small claims) are separately allocated and not counted here.)
- Court seats
- Custer, Hot Springs, Pine Ridge, Rapid City
This judicial district spans multiple countys.
Traffic safety context
South Dakota statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 10
- 11.47 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 10
NHTSA FARS 2023