Jury Pool Profile
Mineral County, West Virginia
Republican +60 (2024)
- Population
- 26,922
- Median household income
- $68,049
- Unemployment
- 4.3%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 25,096 93.2%
- Black or African American alone 474 1.8%
- Asian alone 19 0.1%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 1 0.0%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 30 0.1%
- Some other race alone 169 0.6%
- Two or more races 1,133 4.2%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 316 1.2%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 44.6
- Under 18 5,365 19.9%
- 18–24 2,027 7.5%
- 25–44 6,214 23.1%
- 45–64 7,253 26.9%
- 65 and over 6,063 22.5%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 4.3%
- -0.01 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $1.1B
- 1.01% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $54,612
- Establishments
- 704
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 2,466 28.4%
- Manufacturing 1,969 22.6%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 1,433 16.5%
- Professional & business services 622 7.2%
- Construction 617 7.1%
- Leisure & hospitality 466 5.4%
- Public administration 258 3.0%
- Other services 202 2.3%
- Natural resources & mining 55 0.6%
- Information 9 0.1%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 79.6%
- Median gross rent
- $684
- Owner-occupied
- 8,514
- Renter-occupied
- 2,184
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 12,904 votes cast
- Republican 10,247 79.4%
- Democratic 2,483 19.2%
- Other / third-party 174 1.3%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
98.5% speak only English at home
- Spanish 207 0.8%
- German 99 0.4%
- Other 23 0.1%
- Chinese 21 0.1%
- French (incl. Cajun) 19 0.1%
- Other Asian/Pacific 11 0.0%
- Other Indo-European 3 0.0%
- Arabic 1 0.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 10,698
- Family households
- 7,013
- 65.6% of households
- Married w/ children
- 5,526
- Single-mother households
- 524
- Veterans
- 1,644
- 7.6% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
37.5% overall adherence rate
- Evangelical Protestant 3,943 14.6%
- Mainline Protestant 3,714 13.8%
- Catholic 1,773 6.6%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 551 2.0%
- Black Protestant 120 0.4%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 95.1%
- With a disability
- 14.9%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 22.8%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 25th Judicial Circuit Court
- Judges
- 2 (Circuit Court judges per circuit (general civil + felony criminal jurisdiction); vintage 2026 courtswv.gov; cross-checked against W. Va. Code § 51-2-1a. Magistrate Courts (limited jurisdiction — misdemeanors, traffic, small civil up to $10K) are separately allocated one per county and not counted here. Family Court judges (domestic relations) also separate.)
- Court seats
- Keyser, Parsons, Petersburg
This judicial district spans multiple countys.
Traffic safety context
West Virginia statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 6
- 27.83 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 6
NHTSA FARS 2023