Jury Pool Profile

Chesterfield County, Virginia

Democratic +9 (2024)

Population: 371,610
Median household income: $98,910
Unemployment: 3.4%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 220,926 59.5%
Black or African American alone 87,245 23.5%
Asian alone 13,155 3.5%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 1,001 0.3%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 292 0.1%
Some other race alone 23,718 6.4%
Two or more races 25,273 6.8%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 42,400 11.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 38.9

Under 18 88,521 23.8%
18–24 31,537 8.5%
25–44 96,861 26.1%
45–64 96,297 25.9%
65 and over 58,394 15.7%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.4%; -0.03 pp vs. state
County GDP: $24.0B; 3.15% of state
Avg. annual pay: $62,685
Establishments: 10,284

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Trade, transportation & utilities 36,855 25.3%
Education & health services 31,636 21.7%
Professional & business services 19,166 13.1%
Leisure & hospitality 16,570 11.4%
Construction 11,281 7.7%
Manufacturing 8,742 6.0%
Public administration 8,596 5.9%
Other services 5,361 3.7%
Financial activities 5,203 3.6%
Information 1,820 1.2%
Unclassified 418 0.3%
Natural resources & mining 259 0.2%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 77.3%
Median gross rent: $1,542
Owner-occupied: 105,903
Renter-occupied: 31,093

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Largest employers

Principal employers by headcount

#	Employer	Sector	Employees
1	Chesterfield County School Board	Public education	1,000*
2	County of Chesterfield	Local government	1,000*
3	U.S. Department of Defense (Defense Supply Center Richmond)	Federal government / defense logistics	1,000*
4	Amazon Fulfillment Services Inc.	E-commerce / warehousing	1,000*
5	U.P.S.	Logistics / package delivery	1,000*
6	Bon Secours Health System Inc.	Healthcare	1,000*
7	Amazon Logistics, Inc.	Logistics / last-mile delivery	1,000*
8	DuPont Specialty Products USA, LLC (Spruance plant)	Specialty chemicals / advanced materials	1,000*
9	Walmart	Retail	1,000*
10	Kroger	Grocery retail	1,000*
11	HCA Virginia Health System	Healthcare	1,000*
12	Food Lion	Grocery retail	1,000*

* Headcount is an estimate.

Source: Virginia Works (Virginia Employment Commission / VA Economic Information & Analytics) — Chesterfield County Community Profile, "50 Largest Employers" (QCEW Q3 2025); cross-validated against Chesterfield Economic Development ("Chesterfield Fits") Top Employers list (QCEW Q4 2023), which provides the employment size-range bands. (2025)

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 209,730 votes cast

Democratic 112,869 53.8%
Republican 94,030 44.8%
Other / third-party 2,831 1.3%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

86.1% speak only English at home

Spanish 31,065 8.9%
Other Indo-European 4,119 1.2%
French (incl. Cajun) 2,184 0.6%
Other Asian/Pacific 1,750 0.5%
Other 1,580 0.5%
Chinese 1,573 0.4%
German 1,436 0.4%
Korean 1,373 0.4%
Tagalog 1,162 0.3%
Arabic 1,083 0.3%
Vietnamese 676 0.2%
Slavic languages 646 0.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 136,996
Family households: 99,171; 72.4% of households
Married w/ children: 75,652
Single-mother households: 9,012
Veterans: 25,341; 9% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

49.3% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 84,297 23.1%
Catholic 51,773 14.2%
Mainline Protestant 24,986 6.9%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 15,244 4.2%
Black Protestant 2,222 0.6%
Orthodox 1,302 0.4%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 93.1%
With a disability: 12.3%
Bachelor's or higher: 42.7%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 12th Judicial Circuit Court
Judges: 6 (Active Circuit Court judges per Va. Code § 17.1-507; vintage 2026 vacourts.gov)
Court seats: Chesterfield, Colonial Heights

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Virginia statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 27; 9.54 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 26

NHTSA FARS 2023