Alleghany County, North Carolina

• White (non-Hispanic) 9,370 83.9%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,274 11.4%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 178 1.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 52 0.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 291 2.6%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 9 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%

• Under 18 1,832 16.4%
• 18–24 643 5.8%
• 25–44 2,182 19.5%
• 45–64 3,082 27.6%
• 65 and over 3,435 30.7%

Median household income

$53,354

90% interval $48,665–$58,043

−$20,701 vs NC · 86th of 100

Below poverty line

15.1%

90% interval 11.4%–18.8%

+2.5 pp vs NC · 46th of 100

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.8%

+0.09 pp vs. state

County GDP

$420.0M

0.05% of state

Avg. annual pay

$46,949

Establishments

329

• Education & health services 715 21.0%
• Manufacturing 705 20.7%
• Leisure & hospitality 458 13.5%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 415 12.2%
• Natural resources & mining 317 9.3%
• Public administration 243 7.1%
• Construction 208 6.1%
• Professional & business services 180 5.3%
• Other services 6 0.2%
• Information 5 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 95.5% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

74.4%

+7.8 pp vs NC · 43rd of 100

Median gross rent

$675

−$553 vs NC · 99th of 100

Owner-occupied

3,853

Renter-occupied

1,324

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 55% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Natural resources & mining, $74,040/yr) pays 2.6× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $28,763/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 10 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Republican 4,900 75.6%
• Democratic 1,533 23.7%
• Other / third-party 47 0.7%

• Spanish 1,007 9.4%
• German or other West Germanic 8 0.1%
• Arabic 8 0.1%

Households

5,177

Family households

3,327

64.3% of households

Married couples w/ children

687

20.6% of families

Single-mother families

104

3.1% of families

Veterans

760

8.1% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 3,360 30.9%
• Catholic 1,143 10.5%
• Mainline Protestant 984 9.0%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 331 3.0%
• Black Protestant 150 1.4%

Health insured

86.2%

±2.6 pp

Uninsured

13.8%

±2.6 pp

10th of 100

With a disability

16.7%

±2.2 pp

56th of 100

Bachelor's or higher

23.6%

±3.7 pp

−12.1 pp vs NC · 50th of 100

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

16.0%

90% interval 14.2%–17.8% · Census SAHIE

The under-65 uninsured rate is not comparable to the ACS insurance figures, which cover all ages.

Trial court

34th Judicial District Superior Court

Judges

1 (Superior Court judges per primary district (general civil + felony criminal jurisdiction); District Court judges (limited jurisdiction) separate. Vintage 2026 nccourts.gov; counts cross-checked against N.C.G.S. § 7A-41.1. Where an urban county (Wake, Mecklenburg, Guilford, Forsyth) is statutorily split into multiple Superior Court districts, all sub-district seats are aggregated under the primary district number used in counties.json. ~109 Superior Court judgeships statewide.)

Court seats

Jefferson, Sparta, Wilkesboro, Yadkinville

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

0

0 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

0