Jury Pool Profile

Virginia Beach City City, Virginia

Democratic +3 (2024)

Population: 457,066
Median household income: $90,685
Unemployment: 3.4%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 281,645 61.6%
Black or African American alone 86,396 18.9%
Asian alone 33,157 7.3%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 1,057 0.2%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 772 0.2%
Some other race alone 10,988 2.4%
Two or more races 43,051 9.4%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 40,854 8.9%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 37.4

Under 18 101,006 22.1%
18–24 38,835 8.5%
25–44 135,841 29.7%
45–64 111,138 24.3%
65 and over 70,246 15.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.4%; -0.08 pp vs. state
County GDP: $32.9B; 4.32% of state
Avg. annual pay: $57,981
Establishments: 13,794

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 41,869 23.4%
Trade, transportation & utilities 31,545 17.6%
Leisure & hospitality 30,384 17.0%
Professional & business services 29,853 16.7%
Financial activities 11,117 6.2%
Construction 9,780 5.5%
Public administration 8,336 4.7%
Manufacturing 6,856 3.8%
Other services 6,018 3.4%
Information 2,757 1.5%
Unclassified 417 0.2%
Natural resources & mining 82 0.0%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 64.9%
Median gross rent: $1,649
Owner-occupied: 116,729
Renter-occupied: 63,071

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 227,770 votes cast

Democratic 115,412 50.7%
Republican 109,375 48.0%
Other / third-party 2,983 1.3%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

87.6% speak only English at home

Spanish 19,628 4.6%
Tagalog 12,016 2.8%
Other Indo-European 5,022 1.2%
Other Asian/Pacific 3,952 0.9%
Chinese 2,795 0.7%
Vietnamese 1,806 0.4%
French (incl. Cajun) 1,732 0.4%
Slavic languages 1,564 0.4%
Other 1,552 0.4%
German 1,419 0.3%
Arabic 962 0.2%
Korean 840 0.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 179,800
Family households: 120,123; 66.8% of households
Married w/ children: 88,068
Single-mother households: 12,784
Veterans: 53,555; 16% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

38.0% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 82,005 17.8%
Catholic 53,058 11.5%
Mainline Protestant 23,071 5.0%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 8,740 1.9%
Black Protestant 7,113 1.5%
Orthodox 680 0.1%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 93.5%
With a disability: 11.7%
Bachelor's or higher: 40.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 2nd Judicial Circuit Court
Judges: 10 (Active Circuit Court judges per Va. Code § 17.1-507; vintage 2026 vacourts.gov)
Court seats: Accomac, Eastville, Virginia Beach

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Virginia statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 37; 10.39 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 37

NHTSA FARS 2023