Jury Pool Profile
Buncombe County, North Carolina
Democratic +25 (2024)
- Population
- 271,790
- Median household income
- $70,578
- Unemployment
- 4.4%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 225,935 83.1%
- Black or African American alone 14,702 5.4%
- Asian alone 3,144 1.2%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 565 0.2%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 95 0.0%
- Some other race alone 5,800 2.1%
- Two or more races 21,549 7.9%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 22,443 8.3%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 42.4
- Under 18 49,139 18.1%
- 18–24 20,508 7.5%
- 25–44 74,976 27.6%
- 45–64 70,595 26.0%
- 65 and over 56,572 20.8%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 4.4%
- +0.54 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $21.3B
- 2.52% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $58,785
- Establishments
- 13,107
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 35,497 26.0%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 25,995 19.0%
- Leisure & hospitality 21,013 15.4%
- Professional & business services 15,026 11.0%
- Manufacturing 12,790 9.4%
- Construction 6,765 5.0%
- Public administration 6,097 4.5%
- Other services 5,757 4.2%
- Financial activities 5,192 3.8%
- Information 1,930 1.4%
- Natural resources & mining 421 0.3%
- Unclassified 9 0.0%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 64.4%
- Median gross rent
- $1,281
- Owner-occupied
- 66,159
- Renter-occupied
- 36,513
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 159,885 votes cast
- Democratic 98,662 61.7%
- Republican 59,016 36.9%
- Other / third-party 2,207 1.4%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
90.4% speak only English at home
- Spanish 17,042 6.6%
- Slavic languages 2,376 0.9%
- Other Indo-European 1,864 0.7%
- French (incl. Cajun) 855 0.3%
- German 606 0.2%
- Arabic 448 0.2%
- Chinese 421 0.2%
- Other Asian/Pacific 379 0.1%
- Tagalog 317 0.1%
- Korean 222 0.1%
- Other 213 0.1%
- Vietnamese 74 0.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 102,672
- Family households
- 61,710
- 60.1% of households
- Married w/ children
- 48,107
- Single-mother households
- 4,879
- Veterans
- 14,976
- 6.7% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
52.5% overall adherence rate
- Evangelical Protestant 91,279 33.9%
- Mainline Protestant 19,592 7.3%
- Catholic 19,486 7.2%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 5,859 2.2%
- Black Protestant 4,740 1.8%
- Orthodox 440 0.2%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 88.1%
- With a disability
- 13.8%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 44.6%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 40th 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
- Asheville
Traffic safety context
North Carolina statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 47
- 21.11 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 43
NHTSA FARS 2023