Jury Pool Profile

Roanoke City City, Virginia

Democratic +24 (2024)

Population: 98,677
Median household income: $52,671
Unemployment: 3.9%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 56,758 57.5%
Black or African American alone 28,603 29.0%
Asian alone 3,087 3.1%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 133 0.1%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 95 0.1%
Some other race alone 2,334 2.4%
Two or more races 7,667 7.8%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 8,459 8.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 38

Under 18 22,331 22.6%
18–24 7,296 7.4%
25–44 27,523 27.9%
45–64 24,300 24.6%
65 and over 17,227 17.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.9%; +0.39 pp vs. state
County GDP: $10.1B; 1.32% of state
Avg. annual pay: $62,732
Establishments: 3,548

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 18,608 28.3%
Trade, transportation & utilities 13,959 21.3%
Professional & business services 8,602 13.1%
Leisure & hospitality 7,216 11.0%
Construction 4,537 6.9%
Manufacturing 4,043 6.2%
Public administration 2,948 4.5%
Financial activities 2,944 4.5%
Other services 2,232 3.4%
Information 433 0.7%
Unclassified 83 0.1%
Natural resources & mining 74 0.1%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 51.7%
Median gross rent: $964
Owner-occupied: 22,452
Renter-occupied: 20,977

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 42,128 votes cast

Democratic 25,737 61.1%
Republican 15,787 37.5%
Other / third-party 604 1.4%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

89.4% speak only English at home

Spanish 5,841 6.3%
Other Indo-European 1,315 1.4%
Other Asian/Pacific 581 0.6%
Vietnamese 441 0.5%
French (incl. Cajun) 388 0.4%
German 306 0.3%
Other 283 0.3%
Arabic 193 0.2%
Tagalog 152 0.2%
Slavic languages 121 0.1%
Chinese 104 0.1%
Korean 36 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 43,429
Family households: 22,407; 51.6% of households
Married w/ children: 12,926
Single-mother households: 3,787
Veterans: 5,703; 7.5% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

69.2% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 35,032 35.0%
Mainline Protestant 13,616 13.6%
Catholic 9,822 9.8%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 5,289 5.3%
Black Protestant 4,974 5.0%
Orthodox 496 0.5%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 90.4%
With a disability: 14.0%
Bachelor's or higher: 28.9%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 23rd Judicial Circuit Court
Judges: 8 (Active Circuit Court judges per Va. Code § 17.1-507; vintage 2026 vacourts.gov)
Court seats: Roanoke, Salem

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Virginia statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 10; 13.1 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 10

NHTSA FARS 2023