Jury Pool Profile

Montgomery County, Virginia

Democratic +4 (2024)

Population: 99,159
Median household income: $70,769
Unemployment: 4.0%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 81,977 82.7%
Black or African American alone 3,907 3.9%
Asian alone 6,200 6.3%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 286 0.3%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 210 0.2%
Some other race alone 1,805 1.8%
Two or more races 4,774 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4,512 4.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 30.2

Under 18 15,167 15.3%
18–24 27,811 28.0%
25–44 23,152 23.3%
45–64 19,446 19.6%
65 and over 13,583 13.7%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.0%; +0.54 pp vs. state
County GDP: $7.8B
Avg. annual pay: $60,810
Establishments: 2,613

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 17,694 41.0%
Trade, transportation & utilities 5,811 13.5%
Leisure & hospitality 5,249 12.1%
Manufacturing 5,019 11.6%
Professional & business services 4,606 10.7%
Construction 1,330 3.1%
Financial activities 1,216 2.8%
Other services 979 2.3%
Public administration 906 2.1%
Information 208 0.5%
Natural resources & mining 107 0.2%
Unclassified 76 0.2%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 54.7%
Median gross rent: $1,206
Owner-occupied: 20,105
Renter-occupied: 16,626

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 46,767 votes cast

Democratic 23,811 50.9%
Republican 22,179 47.4%
Other / third-party 777 1.7%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

89.6% speak only English at home

Spanish 2,669 2.8%
Other Indo-European 2,421 2.5%
Chinese 1,568 1.6%
Arabic 762 0.8%
Korean 759 0.8%
Other Asian/Pacific 707 0.7%
Slavic languages 304 0.3%
German 243 0.3%
French (incl. Cajun) 162 0.2%
Other 134 0.1%
Tagalog 99 0.1%
Vietnamese 82 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 36,731
Family households: 19,426; 52.9% of households
Married w/ children: 15,907
Single-mother households: 1,476
Veterans: 3,551; 4.2% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

33.3% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 15,211 15.3%
Mainline Protestant 8,403 8.4%
Catholic 6,347 6.4%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,756 2.8%
Black Protestant 445 0.4%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 95.0%
With a disability: 10.5%
Bachelor's or higher: 48.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 27th Judicial Circuit Court
Judges: 5 (Active Circuit Court judges per Va. Code § 17.1-507; vintage 2026 vacourts.gov)
Court seats: Bland, Christiansburg, Floyd, Galax, Hillsville, Independence, Pearisburg, Pulaski, Radford, Wytheville

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Virginia statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 10; 11.91 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 7

NHTSA FARS 2023