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Box Elder County, Utah

Republican +60.9 (2024)
County seat
Brigham City
Judicial district
1st Judicial District Court
Population (July 2025 estimate)
65,320
Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 61,246.

At a glance

Box Elder County is a 65,320-person venue. The county population is 88% White (Census race-alone categories). 10% identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race. Median household income is $96,063; 26.7% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 7.7% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, most commonly Spanish. The largest employment sector is Manufacturing, at 30.1% of covered employment, average pay $89,548/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.64%, below the 3.7% state average. The county carried the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking 62% to 80% of the vote across the three.

Population
61,246
Median household income
$84,550
Unemployment
3.6%

Who sits on a jury?

Predominantly White

≥70% White (race-alone) and <20% Black. This county: 88% / 0%.

Box Elder County has a population of 61,246, with a median age of 33.3. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 87.7%; Black residents 0.3%. Independently, 10.2% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The median household earns $96,063; 26.7% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 6.8% live below the federal poverty line.

Race & ethnicity
  • White (non-Hispanic) 52,332 85.4%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6,263 10.2%
  • Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 202 0.3%
  • Asian (non-Hispanic) 354 0.6%
  • Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,574 2.6%
  • American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 265 0.4%
  • Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 134 0.2%
  • Some other race (non-Hispanic) 122 0.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Age distribution

Median age 33.3

  • Under 18 18,652 30.5%
  • 18–24 5,618 9.2%
  • 25–44 16,231 26.5%
  • 45–64 12,780 20.9%
  • 65 and over 7,965 13.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Income & poverty
Median household income
$96,063
90% interval $90,644–$101,482
−$335 vs UT · 9th of 29
Below poverty line
6.8%
90% interval 5.1%–8.5%
−1.6 pp vs UT · 24th of 29

U.S. Census SAIPE 2024

Economic context

Manufacturing anchored

Largest sector in BLS QCEW: Manufacturing, about 30% of covered jobs.

Manufacturing is the largest employment sector at 30.1% of covered employment, followed by Trade, transportation & utilities at 19.8%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.64%, below the Utah state average.

Local economy
Unemployment (12-mo)
3.6%
−0.06 pp vs. state
County GDP
$3.6B
1.19% of state
Avg. annual pay
$61,930
Establishments
1,636

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

  • Manufacturing 7,437 30.1%
  • Trade, transportation & utilities 4,901 19.8%
  • Education & health services 4,050 16.4%
  • Construction 2,743 11.1%
  • Leisure & hospitality 2,039 8.2%
  • Professional & business services 1,230 5.0%
  • Public administration 943 3.8%
  • Natural resources & mining 504 2.0%
  • Financial activities 406 1.6%
  • Other services 351 1.4%
  • Information 123 0.5%

BLS QCEW 2025

Housing
Home ownership
76.0%
+5.8 pp vs UT · 18th of 29
Median gross rent
$1,116
−$380 vs UT · 12th of 29
Owner-occupied
14,857
Renter-occupied
4,700

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Local economy in 3 reads
  • Concentrated

    Top three sectors employ 66% 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 (Manufacturing, $89,548/yr) pays 4.8× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $18,773/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

  • Mixed business scale

    Average establishment employs 15 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

BLS QCEW 2025

Political composition

Consistently strongly Republican

Republican candidate carried this county in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (avg winning share: 74%). 'Strongly' threshold: ≥60% avg.

Box Elder County was carried by the Republican candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 79.1% in 2024, 79.7% in 2020, 62.4% in 2016.

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 28,909 votes cast

  • Republican
  • Democratic
Presidential vote share by year
YearRepublicanDemocratic
201662.4%11.0%
202079.7%16.6%
202479.1%18.2%
  • Republican 22,853 79.1%
  • Democratic 5,274 18.2%
  • Other / third-party 782 2.7%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Family-dominant, English-speaking

Family households are 77% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 7.7% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).

7.7% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, French, Haitian, or Cajun, German or other West Germanic. Veterans account for 4.8% of the adult civilian population (2,049 individuals).

Languages spoken at home

92.3% speak only English at home

  • Spanish 3,678 6.5%
  • French, Haitian, or Cajun 161 0.3%
  • German or other West Germanic 144 0.3%
  • Chinese 81 0.1%
  • Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 79 0.1%
  • Tagalog 44 0.1%
  • Vietnamese 6 0.0%
  • Korean 5 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Household composition
Households
19,557
Family households
15,028
76.8% of households
Married couples w/ children
6,242
41.5% of families
Single-mother families
638
4.2% of families
Veterans
2,049
4.8% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Religious composition

90.0% overall adherence rate

  • Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 49,811 86.4%
  • Catholic 990 1.7%
  • Evangelical Protestant 940 1.6%
  • Mainline Protestant 185 0.3%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education
Health insured
92.0%
±1.1 pp
Uninsured
8.0%
±1.1 pp
16th of 29
With a disability
11.1%
±0.9 pp
22nd of 29
Bachelor's or higher
26.7%
±1.5 pp
−11.0 pp vs UT · 15th of 29
Uninsured, under 65 (2024)
10.0%
90% interval 9.0%–11.0% · 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
1st Judicial District Court
Judges
5 (District Court judges per district (general civil + felony criminal trial jurisdiction); vintage 2026 utcourts.gov directory + Utah Code § 78A-5-101. UT has ~89 District Court judges statewide. Justice Court judges (limited jurisdiction: Class B/C misdemeanors, small civil under $20K) are separately allocated at the city + county level and not counted here. Juvenile Court judges (companion court with same district boundaries) are also separately allocated.)
Court seats
Brigham City, Logan, Randolph

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Court reference
Traffic safety context

Box Elder totals, 2024 — the per-100k rate is based on 10 recorded deaths, too few to be statistically reliable

Traffic fatalities
10
23.48 per 100k adults (18+)
Fatal crashes
9

NHTSA FARS 2024

About this profile

This profile aggregates publicly available U.S. government statistics for Box Elder County, Utah 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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