Jury Pool Profile

Suffolk City City, Virginia

Democratic +16 (2024)

Population: 96,638
Median household income: $90,089
Unemployment: 3.8%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 45,942 47.5%
Black or African American alone 40,596 42.0%
Asian alone 1,861 1.9%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 269 0.3%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
Some other race alone 1,834 1.9%
Two or more races 6,136 6.3%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4,780 4.9%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 38.7

Under 18 22,877 23.7%
18–24 7,635 7.9%
25–44 26,237 27.1%
45–64 25,393 26.3%
65 and over 14,496 15.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.8%; +0.36 pp vs. state
County GDP: $5.7B; 0.75% of state
Avg. annual pay: $64,230
Establishments: 2,195

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 9,064 24.9%
Trade, transportation & utilities 8,568 23.5%
Professional & business services 5,740 15.8%
Leisure & hospitality 3,586 9.8%
Public administration 2,608 7.2%
Construction 2,301 6.3%
Manufacturing 2,185 6.0%
Financial activities 1,072 2.9%
Other services 908 2.5%
Information 179 0.5%
Natural resources & mining 128 0.4%
Unclassified 69 0.2%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 70.4%
Median gross rent: $1,484
Owner-occupied: 26,127
Renter-occupied: 11,006

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 53,352 votes cast

Democratic 30,597 57.3%
Republican 22,112 41.4%
Other / third-party 643 1.2%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

94.1% speak only English at home

Spanish 2,619 2.9%
French (incl. Cajun) 391 0.4%
German 390 0.4%
Tagalog 377 0.4%
Other Indo-European 350 0.4%
Chinese 306 0.3%
Vietnamese 261 0.3%
Other Asian/Pacific 204 0.2%
Other 198 0.2%
Slavic languages 100 0.1%
Arabic 75 0.1%
Korean 36 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 37,133
Family households: 25,673; 69.1% of households
Married w/ children: 18,623
Single-mother households: 3,135
Veterans: 11,283; 15.9% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

34.3% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 21,657 23.0%
Mainline Protestant 6,091 6.5%
Black Protestant 2,525 2.7%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,420 1.5%
Catholic 650 0.7%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 93.8%
With a disability: 12.6%
Bachelor's or higher: 32.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 5th Judicial Circuit Court
Judges: 5 (Active Circuit Court judges per Va. Code § 17.1-507; vintage 2026 vacourts.gov)
Court seats: Courtland, Franklin, Isle of Wight, Suffolk

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Virginia statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 12; 16.27 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 10

NHTSA FARS 2023