Jury Pool Profile

Brunswick County, North Carolina

Republican +25 (2024)

Population: 145,889
Median household income: $74,034
Unemployment: 4.3%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 120,123 82.3%
Black or African American alone 11,808 8.1%
Asian alone 908 0.6%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 506 0.3%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 44 0.0%
Some other race alone 3,393 2.3%
Two or more races 9,107 6.2%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 8,037 5.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 56.1

Under 18 20,947 14.4%
18–24 7,606 5.2%
25–44 27,313 18.7%
45–64 41,506 28.5%
65 and over 48,517 33.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.3%; +0.53 pp vs. state
County GDP: $8.1B; 0.96% of state
Avg. annual pay: $51,701
Establishments: 4,448

U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Trade, transportation & utilities 9,936 24.1%
Leisure & hospitality 8,141 19.7%
Education & health services 8,081 19.6%
Professional & business services 3,729 9.0%
Construction 3,150 7.6%
Public administration 2,936 7.1%
Financial activities 1,697 4.1%
Other services 1,059 2.6%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 83.8%
Median gross rent: $1,267
Owner-occupied: 54,023
Renter-occupied: 10,413

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 109,049 votes cast

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

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

95.3% speak only English at home

Spanish 4,827 3.4%
Other Indo-European 611 0.4%
French (incl. Cajun) 287 0.2%
German 212 0.2%
Slavic languages 160 0.1%
Arabic 144 0.1%
Other Asian/Pacific 123 0.1%
Chinese 97 0.1%
Tagalog 84 0.1%
Korean 58 0.0%
Other 41 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 64,436
Family households: 44,919; 69.7% of households
Married w/ children: 37,115
Single-mother households: 2,259
Veterans: 13,986; 11.2% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

40.8% overall adherence rate

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%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 92.0%
With a disability: 15.3%
Bachelor's or higher: 33.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 15th Judicial District Superior Court
Judges: 2 (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

Court reference

Traffic safety context

North Carolina statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 18; 14.41 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 17

NHTSA FARS 2023