Jury Pool Profile

Bristol City City, Virginia

Republican +39.7 (2024)

County seat: Bristol
Judicial district: 28th Judicial Circuit Court
Population (July 2025 estimate): 16,418; Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 16,849.

At a glance

Bristol City is a 16,418-person venue. The city population is 85% White and 6% Black (Census race-alone categories). Median household income is $51,498, $40,618 below the VA state median of $92,116; 24.8% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 3.6% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home. The largest employment sector is Leisure & hospitality, at 23.5% of covered employment, average pay $36,126/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.95%, above the 3.66% state average. The city carried the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking 68% to 70% of the vote across the three.

Population: 16,849
Median household income: $50,404
Unemployment: 4.0%

Who sits on a jury?

Predominantly White

≥70% White (race-alone) and <20% Black. This city: 85% / 6%.

Bristol City has a population of 16,849, with a median age of 43.4. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 85.1%; Black residents 5.8%. Independently, 2.8% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The median household earns $51,498; 24.8% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 18.6% live below the federal poverty line.

Race & ethnicity

White (non-Hispanic) 14,230 84.5%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 465 2.8%
Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 969 5.8%
Asian (non-Hispanic) 76 0.5%
Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 797 4.7%
American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 13 0.1%
Some other race (non-Hispanic) 299 1.8%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Age distribution

Median age 43.4

Under 18 3,305 19.6%
18–24 1,288 7.6%
25–44 4,085 24.2%
45–64 4,185 24.8%
65 and over 3,986 23.7%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Income & poverty

Median household income: $51,498; 90% interval $46,542–$56,454; −$40,618 vs VA · 122nd of 133
Below poverty line: 18.6%; 90% interval 14.9%–22.3%; +8.8 pp vs VA · 22nd of 133

U.S. Census SAIPE 2024

Economic context

Led by hospitality and trade & transportation

Largest sector in BLS QCEW: Leisure & hospitality, 2,547 jobs; Trade, transportation & utilities, 2,476, is within 20% of it.

Leisure & hospitality is the largest employment sector at 23.5% of covered employment, followed by Trade, transportation & utilities at 22.8%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.95%, above the Virginia state average.

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.0%; +0.29 pp vs. state
County GDP: $4.5B
Avg. annual pay: $46,535
Establishments: 614

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Leisure & hospitality 2,547 23.5%
Trade, transportation & utilities 2,476 22.8%
Education & health services 1,783 16.4%
Manufacturing 1,531 14.1%
Public administration 785 7.2%
Professional & business services 601 5.5%
Financial activities 305 2.8%
Construction 248 2.3%
Other services 233 2.1%
Information 29 0.3%

The sectors listed cover 97.1% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

BLS QCEW 2025

Housing

Home ownership: 63.6%; −3.7 pp vs VA · 102nd of 133
Median gross rent: $801; −$778 vs VA · 109th of 133
Owner-occupied: 4,598
Renter-occupied: 2,628

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Local economy in 3 reads

Moderately concentrated

Top three sectors employ 63% of the city workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.
Moderate wage spread

Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $87,871/yr) pays 2.6× the lowest (Trade, transportation & utilities, $33,815/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.
Mixed business scale

Average establishment employs 18 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

Largest employers

Principal employers by headcount

1 of the 3 employers listed here is in leisure & hospitality, accounting for 1,350 employees on this list. So leisure & hospitality is the largest sector by employment here, but the city's biggest named employers sit mostly outside it. A panelist who works somewhere you recognize is probably not working where most of this city works; ask where they work before assuming either pattern fits them.

#	Employer	Sector	Employees
1	Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Bristol	Casino hotel	1,350
2	Bristol, Virginia Public Schools	Public K-12 education	467
3	Electro Mechanical Corporation	Electrical equipment manufacturing	450

Showing 3 of 10 employers on the published list(3,940 employees total).

Source: City of Bristol, Virginia, Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, Table 14 'Principal Employers, Current Year and Nine Years Ago', sourced to the city's Office of Economic Development. No counting method is stated. (2025)

Political composition

Consistently strongly Republican

Republican candidate carried this city in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (avg winning share: 69%). 'Strongly' threshold: ≥60% avg.

Bristol City was carried by the Republican candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 69.5% in 2024, 68.5% in 2020, 70.1% in 2016.

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 7,479 votes cast

Republican
Democratic

Republican 5,197 69.5%
Democratic 2,231 29.8%
Other / third-party 51 0.7%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Family-majority, English-speaking

Family households are 57% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 3.6% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).

3.6% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, Korean, Russian, Polish, or other Slavic. Veterans account for 7.4% of the adult civilian population (1,007 individuals).

Languages spoken at home

96.4% speak only English at home

Spanish 266 1.7%
Korean 51 0.3%
Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 50 0.3%
French, Haitian, or Cajun 7 0.0%
German or other West Germanic 1 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Household composition

Households: 7,226
Family households: 4,095; 56.7% of households
Married couples w/ children: 481; 11.7% of families
Single-mother families: 643; 15.7% of families
Veterans: 1,007; 7.4% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Religious composition

105.3% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 11,700 67.9%
Mainline Protestant 2,706 15.7%
Catholic 2,635 15.3%
Black Protestant 524 3.0%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 492 2.9%
Orthodox 80 0.5%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 89.0%; ±2.1 pp
Uninsured: 11.0%; ±2.1 pp; 6th of 133
With a disability: 22.0%; ±2.5 pp; 13th of 133
Bachelor's or higher: 24.8%; ±3.4 pp; −17.4 pp vs VA · 78th of 133
Uninsured, under 65 (2024): 8.0%; 90% interval 7.0%–9.0% · 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

Trial court: 28th Judicial Circuit Court
Judges: 3 (Active Circuit Court judges per Va. Code § 17.1-507; vintage 2026 vacourts.gov)
Court seats: Abingdon, Bristol, Marion

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Bristol City totals, 2024 — the per-100k rate is based on 0 recorded deaths, too few to be statistically reliable

Traffic fatalities: 0; 0 per 100k adults (18+)
Fatal crashes: 0

NHTSA FARS 2024