Bladen County, North Carolina

• White (non-Hispanic) 15,790 53.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2,752 9.3%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 9,495 32.1%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 47 0.2%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 702 2.4%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 697 2.4%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 21 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 62 0.2%

• Under 18 6,094 20.6%
• 18–24 2,190 7.4%
• 25–44 6,567 22.2%
• 45–64 7,780 26.3%
• 65 and over 6,935 23.5%

Median household income

$49,547

90% interval $44,030–$55,064

−$24,508 vs NC · 95th of 100

Below poverty line

20.6%

90% interval 17.0%–24.2%

+8.0 pp vs NC · 11th of 100

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.2%

+1.41 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.9B

0.22% of state

Avg. annual pay

$51,044

Establishments

668

• Manufacturing 5,410 43.2%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,955 15.6%
• Education & health services 1,545 12.3%
• Public administration 888 7.1%
• Professional & business services 840 6.7%
• Leisure & hospitality 620 5.0%
• Natural resources & mining 619 4.9%
• Construction 335 2.7%
• Other services 161 1.3%
• Financial activities 122 1.0%
• Information 26 0.2%

Home ownership

69.2%

+2.6 pp vs NC · 67th of 100

Median gross rent

$773

−$455 vs NC · 82nd of 100

Owner-occupied

8,183

Renter-occupied

3,641

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 71% of the county workforce. Most panelists likely share employer relationships within these sectors, surface those connections early in voir dire before any institutional-defendant or sector-specific framing.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Construction, $59,132/yr) pays 2.7× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $22,273/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 19 workers, typical of an institutional-employer economy where large hospitals, plants, schools, and government agencies dominate. Expect many panelists to share an employer rather than work for themselves.

• Republican 10,035 59.9%
• Democratic 6,620 39.5%
• Other / third-party 88 0.5%

• Spanish 1,860 6.6%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 38 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 14 0.0%
• Korean 3 0.0%

Households

11,824

Family households

7,441

62.9% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,485

20.0% of families

Single-mother families

1,007

13.5% of families

Veterans

1,902

8.1% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 10,661 36.0%
• Black Protestant 6,726 22.7%
• Mainline Protestant 2,533 8.6%
• Catholic 502 1.7%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 150 0.5%

Health insured

89.8%

±1.9 pp

Uninsured

10.2%

±1.9 pp

46th of 100

With a disability

15.9%

±1.7 pp

63rd of 100

Bachelor's or higher

19.5%

±2.5 pp

−16.2 pp vs NC · 67th of 100

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

11.4%

90% interval 10.2%–12.6% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

15th 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

Bolivia, Elizabethtown, Whiteville

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

6

25.56 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

6