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San Juan County, Utah

Republican +16.3 (2024)
County seat
Monticello
Judicial district
7th Judicial District Court
Population (July 2025 estimate)
14,542
Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 14,483.

At a glance

San Juan County is a 14,542-person venue. The county population is 46% White (Census race-alone categories). Median household income is $63,019, $33,379 below the UT state median of $96,398; 20.5% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 34.8% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, most often one of the other and unspecified languages the Census does not break out (30.1%), then Spanish. The largest employment sector is Education & health services, at 39.9% of covered employment, average pay $58,348/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 4.64%, above the 3.7% state average. The county carried the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking 49% to 57% of the vote across the three.

Population
14,483
Median household income
$64,481
Unemployment
4.6%

Who sits on a jury?

Majority-minority

<50% in any single race-alone group. White here: 46%; Black: 0%.

San Juan County has a population of 14,483, with a median age of 35.0. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 46.3%; Black residents 0.1%. Independently, 5.8% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The median household earns $63,019; 20.5% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 19.5% live below the federal poverty line.

Race & ethnicity
  • White (non-Hispanic) 6,490 44.8%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 833 5.8%
  • Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 13 0.1%
  • Asian (non-Hispanic) 37 0.3%
  • Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 466 3.2%
  • American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 6,474 44.7%
  • Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 55 0.4%
  • Some other race (non-Hispanic) 115 0.8%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Age distribution

Median age 35

  • Under 18 4,115 28.4%
  • 18–24 1,532 10.6%
  • 25–44 3,237 22.4%
  • 45–64 3,250 22.4%
  • 65 and over 2,349 16.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Income & poverty
Median household income
$63,019
90% interval $56,975–$69,063
−$33,379 vs UT · 28th of 29
Below poverty line
19.5%
90% interval 15.0%–24.0%
+11.1 pp vs UT · 1st of 29

U.S. Census SAIPE 2024

Economic context

Healthcare & education anchored

Largest sector in BLS QCEW, even counting every withheld job toward the other sectors: Education & health services, about 40% of covered jobs.

Education & health services is the largest employment sector at 39.9% of covered employment, followed by Leisure & hospitality at 17.8%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 4.64%, above the Utah state average.

Local economy
Unemployment (12-mo)
4.6%
+0.94 pp vs. state
County GDP
$823.0M
0.27% of state
Avg. annual pay
$51,268
Establishments
368

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

  • Education & health services 1,908 39.9%
  • Leisure & hospitality 853 17.8%
  • Trade, transportation & utilities 480 10.0%
  • Public administration 478 10.0%
  • Natural resources & mining 430 9.0%
  • Other services 113 2.4%
  • Construction 42 0.9%
  • Information 12 0.3%
  • Professional & business services 6 0.1%
  • Financial activities 3 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 90.5% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

BLS QCEW 2025

Housing
Home ownership
80.9%
+10.7 pp vs UT · 9th of 29
Median gross rent
$867
−$629 vs UT · 26th of 29
Owner-occupied
3,684
Renter-occupied
871

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Local economy in 3 reads
  • Concentrated

    Top three sectors employ 68% 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.

  • Moderate wage spread

    Highest-paid sector (Natural resources & mining, $94,864/yr) pays 3.3× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $28,616/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

  • Mixed business scale

    Average establishment employs 13 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 Republican

Republican candidate carried this county in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (avg winning share: 52%). 'Strongly' threshold: ≥60% avg.

San Juan County was carried by the Republican candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 57.1% in 2024, 51.4% in 2020, 48.9% in 2016.

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 6,328 votes cast

  • Republican
  • Democratic
Presidential vote share by year
YearRepublicanDemocratic
201648.9%37.1%
202051.4%45.3%
202457.1%40.8%
  • Republican 3,613 57.1%
  • Democratic 2,581 40.8%
  • Other / third-party 134 2.1%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Family-dominant, linguistically diverse

Family households are 75% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 34.8% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).

34.8% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The largest group speaks a language the Census does not name separately (30.1%); the most common named are Spanish, Russian, Polish, or other Slavic, French, Haitian, or Cajun. Veterans account for 5.3% of the adult civilian population (551 individuals).

Languages spoken at home

65.2% speak only English at home

  • Spanish 485 3.6%
  • Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 48 0.4%
  • French, Haitian, or Cajun 13 0.1%
  • Chinese 8 0.1%
  • German or other West Germanic 7 0.1%
  • Arabic 6 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Household composition
Households
4,555
Family households
3,402
74.7% of households
Married couples w/ children
978
28.7% of families
Single-mother families
341
10.0% of families
Veterans
551
5.3% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Religious composition

47.8% overall adherence rate

  • Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 6,200 42.7%
  • Evangelical Protestant 448 3.1%
  • Mainline Protestant 177 1.2%
  • Catholic 116 0.8%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education
Health insured
82.5%
±2.4 pp
Uninsured
17.5%
±2.4 pp
1st of 29
With a disability
20.8%
±2 pp
2nd of 29
Bachelor's or higher
20.5%
±2.8 pp
−17.2 pp vs UT · 22nd of 29
Uninsured, under 65 (2024)
10.9%
90% interval 9.8%–12.0% · 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
7th Judicial District Court
Judges
3 (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
Castle Dale, Moab, Monticello, Price

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Court reference
Traffic safety context

San Juan totals, 2024 — the per-100k rate is based on 7 recorded deaths, too few to be statistically reliable

Traffic fatalities
7
67.52 per 100k adults (18+)
Fatal crashes
6

NHTSA FARS 2024

About this profile

This profile aggregates publicly available U.S. government statistics for San Juan 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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