Jury Pool Profile

Newport News City City, Virginia

Democratic +29 (2024)

Population: 184,774
Median household income: $66,718
Unemployment: 4.3%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 78,221 42.3%
Black or African American alone 75,773 41.0%
Asian alone 6,136 3.3%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 487 0.3%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 153 0.1%
Some other race alone 5,291 2.9%
Two or more races 18,713 10.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 19,474 10.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 34.2

Under 18 43,054 23.3%
18–24 21,356 11.6%
25–44 54,448 29.5%
45–64 40,689 22.0%
65 and over 25,227 13.7%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.3%; +0.81 pp vs. state
County GDP: $18.8B; 2.47% of state
Avg. annual pay: $67,936
Establishments: 4,501

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Manufacturing 29,250 28.6%
Education & health services 22,929 22.4%
Trade, transportation & utilities 14,154 13.8%
Professional & business services 11,665 11.4%
Leisure & hospitality 8,461 8.3%
Public administration 5,615 5.5%
Construction 4,060 4.0%
Financial activities 3,172 3.1%
Other services 2,221 2.2%
Information 658 0.6%
Unclassified 114 0.1%
Natural resources & mining 12 0.0%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 48.1%
Median gross rent: $1,285
Owner-occupied: 36,452
Renter-occupied: 39,346

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 75,629 votes cast

Democratic 48,169 63.7%
Republican 26,385 34.9%
Other / third-party 1,075 1.4%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

89.1% speak only English at home

Spanish 10,500 6.1%
Other Indo-European 1,138 0.7%
Other Asian/Pacific 943 0.5%
Korean 934 0.5%
German 880 0.5%
Tagalog 818 0.5%
Other 776 0.5%
Arabic 679 0.4%
Slavic languages 624 0.4%
French (incl. Cajun) 597 0.3%
Vietnamese 544 0.3%
Chinese 351 0.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 75,798
Family households: 43,633; 57.6% of households
Married w/ children: 26,855
Single-mother households: 7,394
Veterans: 17,591; 13.2% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

44.6% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 38,811 20.8%
Catholic 16,301 8.8%
Mainline Protestant 11,422 6.1%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 10,533 5.7%
Black Protestant 4,938 2.7%
Orthodox 1,000 0.5%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 91.3%
With a disability: 14.6%
Bachelor's or higher: 29.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 7th Judicial Circuit Court
Judges: 4 (Active Circuit Court judges per Va. Code § 17.1-507; vintage 2026 vacourts.gov)
Court seats: Newport News

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Virginia statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 12; 8.47 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 12

NHTSA FARS 2023