Jury Pool Profile

Louisa County, Virginia

Republican +26.2 (2024)

County seat: Louisa
Judicial district: 16th Judicial Circuit Court
Population (July 2025 estimate): 42,924; Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 39,980.

At a glance

Louisa County is a 42,924-person venue. The county population is 77% White and 12% Black (Census race-alone categories). Median household income is $87,062, $5,054 below the VA state median of $92,116; 29.7% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 6.9% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, most commonly Spanish. The largest employment sector is Trade, transportation & utilities, at 35.7% of covered employment, average pay $75,688/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.85%, above the 3.66% state average. The county carried the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking 60% to 63% of the vote across the three.

Population: 39,980
Median household income: $86,689
Unemployment: 3.9%

Who sits on a jury?

Predominantly White

≥70% White (race-alone) and <20% Black. This county: 77% / 12%.

Louisa County has a population of 39,980, with a median age of 44.8. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 77.3%; Black residents 11.6%. Independently, 4.1% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The median household earns $87,062; 29.7% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 8.3% live below the federal poverty line.

Race & ethnicity

White (non-Hispanic) 30,420 76.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,659 4.1%
Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 4,604 11.5%
Asian (non-Hispanic) 242 0.6%
Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 2,563 6.4%
American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 129 0.3%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 10 0.0%
Some other race (non-Hispanic) 353 0.9%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Age distribution

Median age 44.8

Under 18 7,993 20.0%
18–24 2,498 6.2%
25–44 9,660 24.2%
45–64 11,425 28.6%
65 and over 8,404 21.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Income & poverty

Median household income: $87,062; 90% interval $81,412–$92,712; −$5,054 vs VA · 35th of 133
Below poverty line: 8.3%; 90% interval 6.3%–10.3%; −1.5 pp vs VA · 101st of 133

U.S. Census SAIPE 2024

Economic context

Trade & transportation anchored

Largest sector in BLS QCEW, even counting every withheld job toward the other sectors: Trade, transportation & utilities, about 36% of covered jobs.

Trade, transportation & utilities is the largest employment sector at 35.7% of covered employment, followed by Education & health services at 17.1%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.85%, above the Virginia state average.

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.9%; +0.19 pp vs. state
County GDP: $3.1B; 0.41% of state
Avg. annual pay: $63,992
Establishments: 1,069

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Trade, transportation & utilities 3,691 35.7%
Education & health services 1,764 17.1%
Leisure & hospitality 880 8.5%
Professional & business services 810 7.8%
Public administration 452 4.4%
Financial activities 301 2.9%
Other services 243 2.4%
Construction 34 0.3%

The sectors listed cover 79.1% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

BLS QCEW 2025

Housing

Home ownership: 82.2%; +14.9 pp vs VA · 22nd of 133
Median gross rent: $1,220; −$359 vs VA · 47th of 133
Owner-occupied: 12,796
Renter-occupied: 2,765

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Local economy in 3 reads

Moderately concentrated

Top three sectors employ 61% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.
Moderate wage spread

Highest-paid sector (Trade, transportation & utilities, $75,688/yr) pays 2.7× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $28,089/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.
Small-business scale

Average establishment employs only 9.7 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

BLS QCEW 2025

Largest employers

Principal employers by headcount

2 of the top 5 employers on this list (2 of the listed 5) are in trade, transportation & utilities, accounting for 2,547 employees on this list. So trade, transportation & utilities is the largest sector by employment here, but most of the county's five biggest named employers sit outside it. A panelist who works somewhere you recognize is probably not working where most of this county works; ask where they work before assuming either pattern fits them.

#	Employer	Sector	Employees
1	Walmart, Inc.	Retail and grocery distribution	1,408
2	Dominion Energy	Electric utility (nuclear generation)	1,139
3	Louisa County Public Schools	Public K-12 education	952
4	County of Louisa	Local government	541
5	Klockner-Pentaplast of America	Plastic film manufacturing	312

Showing 5 of 12 employers on the published list(5,236 employees total).

Source: County of Louisa, Virginia, Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, Table 15 'Principal Employers, Current Year and the Period Nine Years Prior', sourced to the Virginia Employment Commission and individual companies' HR departments. The table does not say which counts came from which source. (2025)

Political composition

Consistently strongly Republican

Republican candidate carried this county in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (avg winning share: 61%). 'Strongly' threshold: ≥60% avg.

Louisa County was carried by the Republican candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 62.7% in 2024, 60.7% in 2020, 60.0% in 2016.

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 24,067 votes cast

Republican
Democratic

Republican 15,084 62.7%
Democratic 8,779 36.5%
Other / third-party 204 0.8%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Family-dominant, English-speaking

Family households are 73% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 6.9% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).

6.9% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, Russian, Polish, or other Slavic, German or other West Germanic. Veterans account for 10.1% of the adult civilian population (3,237 individuals).

Languages spoken at home

93.1% speak only English at home

Spanish 1,221 3.2%
Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 352 0.9%
German or other West Germanic 281 0.7%
Chinese 54 0.1%
Korean 46 0.1%
French, Haitian, or Cajun 45 0.1%
Tagalog 44 0.1%
Arabic 35 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Household composition

Households: 15,561
Family households: 11,351; 72.9% of households
Married couples w/ children: 3,108; 27.4% of families
Single-mother families: 783; 6.9% of families
Veterans: 3,237; 10.1% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Religious composition

30.7% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 6,724 17.9%
Catholic 1,963 5.2%
Mainline Protestant 1,958 5.2%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 689 1.8%
Black Protestant 152 0.4%
Orthodox 60 0.2%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 94.6%; ±1.2 pp
Uninsured: 5.4%; ±1.2 pp; 90th of 133
With a disability: 15.1%; ±1.3 pp; 68th of 133
Bachelor's or higher: 29.7%; ±2.4 pp; −12.5 pp vs VA · 56th of 133
Uninsured, under 65 (2024): 9.1%; 90% interval 8.1%–10.1% · 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: 16th Judicial Circuit Court
Judges: 7 (Active Circuit Court judges per Va. Code § 17.1-507; vintage 2026 vacourts.gov)
Court seats: Charlottesville, Culpeper, Goochland, Louisa, Madison, Orange, Palmyra, Stanardsville

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Louisa totals, 2024 — the per-100k rate is based on 10 recorded deaths, too few to be statistically reliable

Traffic fatalities: 10; 31.26 per 100k adults (18+)
Fatal crashes: 9

NHTSA FARS 2024