Jury Pool Profile

Hanover County, Virginia

Republican +26 (2024)

Population: 111,652
Median household income: $109,504
Unemployment: 3.1%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 91,848 82.3%
Black or African American alone 9,599 8.6%
Asian alone 1,974 1.8%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 152 0.1%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 80 0.1%
Some other race alone 1,841 1.6%
Two or more races 6,158 5.5%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4,203 3.8%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 42.3

Under 18 24,258 21.7%
18–24 9,425 8.4%
25–44 25,798 23.1%
45–64 31,228 28.0%
65 and over 20,943 18.8%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.1%; -0.34 pp vs. state
County GDP: $9.2B; 1.21% of state
Avg. annual pay: $55,746
Establishments: 4,310

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Trade, transportation & utilities 19,150 32.2%
Education & health services 10,874 18.3%
Professional & business services 7,134 12.0%
Leisure & hospitality 6,318 10.6%
Construction 6,310 10.6%
Manufacturing 3,355 5.6%
Public administration 1,935 3.3%
Other services 1,740 2.9%
Financial activities 1,520 2.6%
Information 560 0.9%
Natural resources & mining 490 0.8%
Unclassified 129 0.2%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 82.8%
Median gross rent: $1,496
Owner-occupied: 34,790
Renter-occupied: 7,222

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 73,087 votes cast

Republican 45,569 62.3%
Democratic 26,733 36.6%
Other / third-party 785 1.1%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

95.7% speak only English at home

Spanish 2,141 2.0%
Other Indo-European 556 0.5%
Other Asian/Pacific 505 0.5%
Arabic 314 0.3%
Slavic languages 206 0.2%
Tagalog 195 0.2%
Chinese 175 0.2%
German 171 0.2%
Other 116 0.1%
Korean 92 0.1%
French (incl. Cajun) 82 0.1%
Vietnamese 49 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 42,012
Family households: 30,369; 72.3% of households
Married w/ children: 24,744
Single-mother households: 1,857
Veterans: 7,251; 8.3% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

52.1% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 29,403 26.7%
Catholic 12,528 11.4%
Mainline Protestant 10,973 10.0%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,972 2.7%
Black Protestant 1,280 1.2%
Orthodox 90 0.1%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 95.8%
With a disability: 11.5%
Bachelor's or higher: 42.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 15th Judicial Circuit Court
Judges: 12 (Active Circuit Court judges per Va. Code § 17.1-507; vintage 2026 vacourts.gov)
Court seats: Bowling Green, Fredericksburg, Hanover, Heathsville, King George, Lancaster, Montross, Spotsylvania Courthouse, Stafford, Tappahannock, Warsaw

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Virginia statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 24; 27.46 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 21

NHTSA FARS 2023