Jury Pool Profile
Salt Lake County, Utah
Democratic +10 (2024)
- Population
- 1,184,689
- Median household income
- $94,658
- Unemployment
- 3.6%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 862,251 72.8%
- Black or African American alone 21,338 1.8%
- Asian alone 48,973 4.1%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 11,539 1.0%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 18,533 1.6%
- Some other race alone 107,624 9.1%
- Two or more races 114,431 9.7%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 236,654 20.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 33.8
- Under 18 306,344 25.9%
- 18–24 115,851 9.8%
- 25–44 369,299 31.2%
- 45–64 256,058 21.6%
- 65 and over 137,137 11.6%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 3.6%
- -0.05 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $153.8B
- 51.37% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $77,495
- Establishments
- 67,066
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Trade, transportation & utilities 165,982 20.8%
- Education & health services 158,596 19.9%
- Professional & business services 140,992 17.7%
- Leisure & hospitality 70,436 8.8%
- Financial activities 64,760 8.1%
- Manufacturing 60,293 7.6%
- Construction 55,073 6.9%
- Public administration 33,719 4.2%
- Information 22,365 2.8%
- Other services 19,896 2.5%
- Natural resources & mining 4,048 0.5%
- Unclassified 48 0.0%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 67.0%
- Median gross rent
- $1,493
- Owner-occupied
- 279,101
- Renter-occupied
- 137,488
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 509,492 votes cast
- Democratic 273,658 53.7%
- Republican 221,555 43.5%
- Other / third-party 14,279 2.8%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
78.8% speak only English at home
- Spanish 150,431 13.6%
- Other Indo-European 19,040 1.7%
- Other Asian/Pacific 18,926 1.7%
- Chinese 8,741 0.8%
- Other 8,124 0.7%
- Slavic languages 6,523 0.6%
- Vietnamese 5,777 0.5%
- Arabic 3,926 0.4%
- German 3,899 0.4%
- French (incl. Cajun) 3,547 0.3%
- Tagalog 3,153 0.3%
- Korean 2,246 0.2%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 416,589
- Family households
- 279,341
- 67.1% of households
- Married w/ children
- 216,084
- Single-mother households
- 21,085
- Veterans
- 34,838
- 4% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
67.4% overall adherence rate
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 646,457 54.5%
- Catholic 107,364 9.1%
- Evangelical Protestant 29,544 2.5%
- Mainline Protestant 8,997 0.8%
- Orthodox 4,463 0.4%
- Black Protestant 1,762 0.1%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 90.4%
- With a disability
- 10.2%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 38.6%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 3rd Judicial District Court
- Judges
- 33 (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
- Coalville, Salt Lake City, Tooele
This judicial district spans multiple countys.
Traffic safety context
Utah statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 68
- 7.74 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 61
NHTSA FARS 2023