Jury Pool Profile

Chesapeake City City, Virginia

Democratic +4 (2024)

Population: 251,153
Median household income: $94,189
Unemployment: 3.6%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 141,037 56.2%
Black or African American alone 72,892 29.0%
Asian alone 9,362 3.7%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 515 0.2%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 122 0.0%
Some other race alone 6,420 2.6%
Two or more races 20,805 8.3%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 18,598 7.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 37.7

Under 18 61,100 24.3%
18–24 20,182 8.0%
25–44 71,565 28.5%
45–64 62,944 25.1%
65 and over 35,362 14.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.6%; +0.09 pp vs. state
County GDP: $15.2B; 2% of state
Avg. annual pay: $58,825
Establishments: 6,889

U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Trade, transportation & utilities 23,751 22.7%
Education & health services 21,590 20.6%
Professional & business services 17,364 16.6%
Leisure & hospitality 11,556 11.0%
Construction 9,876 9.4%
Manufacturing 5,424 5.2%
Financial activities 4,848 4.6%
Public administration 4,608 4.4%
Other services 3,315 3.2%
Information 1,944 1.9%
Unclassified 222 0.2%
Natural resources & mining 164 0.2%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 73.8%
Median gross rent: $1,523
Owner-occupied: 68,140
Renter-occupied: 24,221

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 127,493 votes cast

Democratic 65,399 51.3%
Republican 60,550 47.5%
Other / third-party 1,544 1.2%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

91.7% speak only English at home

Spanish 8,966 3.8%
Tagalog 2,038 0.9%
Other Indo-European 1,772 0.8%
French (incl. Cajun) 1,146 0.5%
Other Asian/Pacific 1,027 0.4%
Vietnamese 956 0.4%
Korean 914 0.4%
German 888 0.4%
Other 785 0.3%
Chinese 490 0.2%
Arabic 330 0.1%
Slavic languages 287 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 92,361
Family households: 66,884; 72.4% of households
Married w/ children: 50,298
Single-mother households: 7,739
Veterans: 26,427; 14.5% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

44.8% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 62,644 25.1%
Catholic 22,913 9.2%
Mainline Protestant 13,678 5.5%
Black Protestant 9,105 3.7%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 3,385 1.4%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 93.4%
With a disability: 12.5%
Bachelor's or higher: 36.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 1st Judicial Circuit Court
Judges: 4 (Active Circuit Court judges per Va. Code § 17.1-507; vintage 2026 vacourts.gov)
Court seats: Chesapeake

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Virginia statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 17; 8.94 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 17

NHTSA FARS 2023