Brunswick County, North Carolina

• White (non-Hispanic) 123,338 80.8%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 8,583 5.6%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 12,620 8.3%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 1,002 0.7%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 6,063 4.0%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 333 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 24 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 605 0.4%

• Under 18 21,421 14.0%
• 18–24 7,994 5.2%
• 25–44 28,486 18.7%
• 45–64 43,063 28.2%
• 65 and over 51,604 33.8%

Median household income

$81,361

90% interval $77,265–$85,457

+$7,306 vs NC · 15th of 100

Below poverty line

9.0%

90% interval 7.5%–10.5%

−3.6 pp vs NC · 93rd of 100

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.2%

+0.44 pp vs. state

County GDP

$8.1B

0.96% of state

Avg. annual pay

$54,523

Establishments

4,529

• Trade, transportation & utilities 10,295 23.8%
• Leisure & hospitality 8,533 19.8%
• Education & health services 8,377 19.4%
• Professional & business services 3,816 8.8%
• Construction 3,650 8.4%
• Public administration 3,071 7.1%
• Manufacturing 1,892 4.4%
• Financial activities 1,744 4.0%
• Other services 1,088 2.5%
• Information 564 1.3%
• Natural resources & mining 167 0.4%
• Unclassified 4 0.0%

Home ownership

84.6%

+18.0 pp vs NC · 2nd of 100

Median gross rent

$1,351

+$123 vs NC · 9th of 100

Owner-occupied

58,472

Renter-occupied

10,652

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 63% 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 (Information, $83,689/yr) pays 3.1× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $27,015/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Small-business scale

  Average establishment employs only 9.5 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

• Republican 67,658 62.0%
• Democratic 40,557 37.2%
• Other / third-party 834 0.8%

• Spanish 5,296 3.6%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 282 0.2%
• German or other West Germanic 226 0.2%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 204 0.1%
• Tagalog 114 0.1%
• Arabic 103 0.1%
• Chinese 72 0.0%
• Korean 48 0.0%

Households

69,124

Family households

48,225

69.8% of households

Married couples w/ children

7,469

15.5% of families

Single-mother families

2,634

5.5% of families

Veterans

14,158

10.8% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 22,436 16.4%
• Catholic 15,063 11.0%
• Mainline Protestant 9,336 6.8%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 4,640 3.4%
• Black Protestant 4,281 3.1%

Health insured

92.5%

±0.8 pp

Uninsured

7.5%

±0.8 pp

94th of 100

With a disability

15.6%

±0.9 pp

67th of 100

Bachelor's or higher

34.7%

±1.2 pp

−1.0 pp vs NC · 18th of 100

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

9.0%

90% interval 8.1%–9.9% · 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

24

18.3 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

23