Jury Pool Profile

Staunton City City, Virginia

Democratic +13 (2024)

Population: 25,765
Median household income: $62,586
Unemployment: 3.4%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 20,629 80.1%
Black or African American alone 2,830 11.0%
Asian alone 393 1.5%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 37 0.1%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 68 0.3%
Some other race alone 347 1.3%
Two or more races 1,461 5.7%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,141 4.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 41

Under 18 4,937 19.2%
18–24 2,382 9.2%
25–44 6,803 26.4%
45–64 6,234 24.2%
65 and over 5,409 21.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.4%; -0.1 pp vs. state
County GDP: $7.2B
Avg. annual pay: $47,917
Establishments: 928

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 3,756 32.8%
Trade, transportation & utilities 2,385 20.8%
Leisure & hospitality 1,627 14.2%
Professional & business services 1,154 10.1%
Public administration 588 5.1%
Other services 545 4.8%
Financial activities 473 4.1%
Manufacturing 323 2.8%
Construction 242 2.1%
Information 104 0.9%
Unclassified 18 0.2%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 59.5%
Median gross rent: $993
Owner-occupied: 6,756
Renter-occupied: 4,600

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 13,562 votes cast

Democratic 7,592 56.0%
Republican 5,778 42.6%
Other / third-party 192 1.4%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

93.5% speak only English at home

Spanish 809 3.3%
Other Indo-European 201 0.8%
German 136 0.6%
Other Asian/Pacific 117 0.5%
Other 103 0.4%
French (incl. Cajun) 97 0.4%
Tagalog 60 0.2%
Korean 34 0.1%
Arabic 4 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 11,356
Family households: 6,176; 54.4% of households
Married w/ children: 4,134
Single-mother households: 858
Veterans: 1,669; 8% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

59.2% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 5,759 22.4%
Mainline Protestant 4,553 17.7%
Catholic 3,335 13.0%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,047 4.1%
Black Protestant 558 2.2%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 92.8%
With a disability: 15.4%
Bachelor's or higher: 35.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 25th Judicial Circuit Court
Judges: 6 (Active Circuit Court judges per Va. Code § 17.1-507; vintage 2026 vacourts.gov)
Court seats: Buena Vista, Covington, Fincastle, Lexington, Monterey, New Castle, Staunton, Warm Springs, Waynesboro

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Virginia statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 2; 9.6 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 2

NHTSA FARS 2023