Bertie County, North Carolina

• White (non-Hispanic) 5,904 34.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 422 2.5%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 10,229 59.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 130 0.8%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 407 2.4%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 51 0.3%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 1 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 26 0.2%

• Under 18 2,788 16.2%
• 18–24 1,307 7.6%
• 25–44 4,152 24.2%
• 45–64 4,583 26.7%
• 65 and over 4,340 25.3%

Median household income

$47,587

90% interval $42,483–$52,691

−$26,468 vs NC · 98th of 100

Below poverty line

20.1%

90% interval 14.7%–25.5%

+7.5 pp vs NC · 12th of 100

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.8%

+1 pp vs. state

County GDP

$797.9M

0.09% of state

Avg. annual pay

$46,503

Establishments

341

• Education & health services 1,140 21.4%
• Public administration 607 11.4%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 483 9.1%
• Professional & business services 439 8.2%
• Natural resources & mining 270 5.1%
• Leisure & hospitality 209 3.9%
• Other services 66 1.2%
• Information 5 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 60.5% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

72.7%

+6.1 pp vs NC · 51st of 100

Median gross rent

$839

−$389 vs NC · 64th of 100

Owner-occupied

5,194

Renter-occupied

1,949

• Diversified

  Top three sectors employ 42% of the workforce, a relatively diversified local economy. Expect mixed employer backgrounds on the panel rather than concentration in any one institution or industry.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Public administration, $55,489/yr) pays 3.2× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $17,424/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 16 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Democratic 5,279 57.6%
• Republican 3,840 41.9%
• Other / third-party 51 0.6%

• Spanish 387 2.4%
• Korean 69 0.4%
• German or other West Germanic 65 0.4%
• Chinese 28 0.2%
• Arabic 21 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 12 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 11 0.1%

Households

7,143

Family households

4,690

65.7% of households

Married couples w/ children

680

14.5% of families

Single-mother families

433

9.2% of families

Veterans

833

5.8% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 5,350 29.8%
• Black Protestant 2,520 14.1%
• Mainline Protestant 533 3.0%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 214 1.2%
• Catholic 81 0.5%

Health insured

90.1%

±3 pp

Uninsured

9.9%

±3 pp

49th of 100

With a disability

24.3%

±3.1 pp

2nd of 100

Bachelor's or higher

19.0%

±3 pp

−16.7 pp vs NC · 70th of 100

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

10.5%

90% interval 9.2%–11.8% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

7th 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

Halifax, Jackson, Windsor, Winton

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

1

6.95 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

1