Jury Pool Profile
Sawyer County, Wisconsin
Republican +16 (2024)
- Population
- 18,243
- Median household income
- $59,055
- Unemployment
- 4.2%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 14,205 77.9%
- Black or African American alone 116 0.6%
- Asian alone 108 0.6%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 2,660 14.6%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 17 0.1%
- Some other race alone 137 0.8%
- Two or more races 1,000 5.5%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 430 2.4%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 52.2
- Under 18 3,319 18.2%
- 18–24 1,068 5.9%
- 25–44 3,344 18.3%
- 45–64 5,446 29.9%
- 65 and over 5,066 27.8%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 4.2%
- +0.97 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $966.5M
- 0.21% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $48,406
- Establishments
- 701
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 1,631 22.5%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 1,374 19.0%
- Public administration 1,087 15.0%
- Leisure & hospitality 1,017 14.0%
- Manufacturing 658 9.1%
- Construction 351 4.8%
- Professional & business services 313 4.3%
- Financial activities 240 3.3%
- Other services 118 1.6%
- Natural resources & mining 106 1.5%
- Information 28 0.4%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 77.4%
- Median gross rent
- $683
- Owner-occupied
- 6,593
- Renter-occupied
- 1,929
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 11,122 votes cast
- Republican 6,422 57.7%
- Democratic 4,599 41.4%
- Other / third-party 101 0.9%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
95.9% speak only English at home
- Other 371 2.1%
- Spanish 193 1.1%
- German 78 0.4%
- Other Asian/Pacific 25 0.1%
- Other Indo-European 16 0.1%
- Tagalog 11 0.1%
- French (incl. Cajun) 7 0.0%
- Slavic languages 3 0.0%
- Chinese 3 0.0%
- Vietnamese 2 0.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 8,522
- Family households
- 5,204
- 61.1% of households
- Married w/ children
- 3,987
- Single-mother households
- 525
- Veterans
- 1,391
- 9.3% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
36.9% overall adherence rate
- Catholic 2,888 16.0%
- Evangelical Protestant 1,989 11.0%
- Mainline Protestant 1,409 7.8%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 381 2.1%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 93.6%
- With a disability
- 16.5%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 27.2%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- Sawyer County Circuit Court (10th Judicial District)
- Judges
- 22 (Circuit Court judges aggregated across all counties in each administrative Judicial District (Wis. Stat. § 753.06); vintage 2026 wicourts.gov. Note: WI's Circuit Court is per-county (72 trial venues); the 9 active numbered Judicial Districts are administrative chief-judge regions, not jurisdictions. Municipal Court judges (limited jurisdiction — city ordinances) are separate and not counted here.)
- Court seats
- Hayward
This judicial district spans multiple countys.
Traffic safety context
Wisconsin statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 6
- 40.2 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 5
NHTSA FARS 2023