Jury Pool Profile

Norfolk City City, Virginia

Democratic +42 (2024)

Population: 235,037
Median household income: $64,017
Unemployment: 4.2%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 103,421 44.0%
Black or African American alone 93,540 39.8%
Asian alone 8,610 3.7%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 1,163 0.5%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 294 0.1%
Some other race alone 9,132 3.9%
Two or more races 18,877 8.0%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 23,196 9.9%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 32.4

Under 18 48,090 20.5%
18–24 35,092 14.9%
25–44 73,632 31.3%
45–64 48,663 20.7%
65 and over 29,560 12.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.2%; +0.77 pp vs. state
County GDP: $26.8B; 3.51% of state
Avg. annual pay: $72,432
Establishments: 6,441

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 36,844 25.6%
Professional & business services 25,426 17.6%
Trade, transportation & utilities 23,626 16.4%
Public administration 19,428 13.5%
Leisure & hospitality 12,785 8.9%
Financial activities 8,332 5.8%
Manufacturing 6,656 4.6%
Construction 5,612 3.9%
Other services 3,656 2.5%
Information 1,494 1.0%
Unclassified 220 0.2%
Natural resources & mining 7 0.0%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 45.7%
Median gross rent: $1,246
Owner-occupied: 43,159
Renter-occupied: 51,298

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 85,643 votes cast

Democratic 59,941 70.0%
Republican 24,377 28.5%
Other / third-party 1,325 1.5%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

88.4% speak only English at home

Spanish 13,054 5.9%
Tagalog 3,486 1.6%
Other Indo-European 2,285 1.0%
French (incl. Cajun) 1,652 0.8%
Other 1,173 0.5%
Other Asian/Pacific 886 0.4%
Chinese 735 0.3%
German 627 0.3%
Slavic languages 593 0.3%
Korean 399 0.2%
Arabic 310 0.1%
Vietnamese 291 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 94,457
Family households: 52,991; 56.1% of households
Married w/ children: 31,868
Single-mother households: 9,307
Veterans: 23,269; 14.3% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

47.8% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 40,198 16.9%
Catholic 20,048 8.4%
Black Protestant 19,155 8.0%
Mainline Protestant 17,510 7.4%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 14,034 5.9%
Orthodox 2,716 1.1%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 90.9%
With a disability: 14.8%
Bachelor's or higher: 32.7%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 4th Judicial Circuit Court
Judges: 8 (Active Circuit Court judges per Va. Code § 17.1-507; vintage 2026 vacourts.gov)
Court seats: Norfolk

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Virginia statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 15; 8.02 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 15

NHTSA FARS 2023