Jury Pool Profile

Burke County, North Carolina

Republican +41 (2024)

Population: 87,863
Median household income: $55,684
Unemployment: 3.8%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 71,266 81.1%
Black or African American alone 5,320 6.1%
Asian alone 2,953 3.4%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 889 1.0%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 38 0.0%
Some other race alone 3,889 4.4%
Two or more races 3,508 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 7,229 8.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 44.9

Under 18 16,305 18.6%
18–24 6,945 7.9%
25–44 20,779 23.6%
45–64 25,175 28.7%
65 and over 18,659 21.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.8%; -0.03 pp vs. state
County GDP: $3.7B; 0.44% of state
Avg. annual pay: $48,986
Establishments: 1,725

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 8,793 29.8%
Manufacturing 7,515 25.4%
Trade, transportation & utilities 3,901 13.2%
Leisure & hospitality 3,100 10.5%
Public administration 2,298 7.8%
Professional & business services 1,815 6.1%
Construction 810 2.7%
Other services 560 1.9%
Financial activities 506 1.7%
Natural resources & mining 135 0.5%
Information 119 0.4%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 74.8%
Median gross rent: $805
Owner-occupied: 26,823
Renter-occupied: 9,050

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 45,733 votes cast

Republican 32,130 70.3%
Democratic 13,272 29.0%
Other / third-party 331 0.7%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

89.9% speak only English at home

Spanish 5,077 6.1%
Other Asian/Pacific 1,693 2.0%
Other 613 0.7%
Arabic 398 0.5%
Other Indo-European 187 0.2%
Chinese 170 0.2%
Tagalog 124 0.1%
Vietnamese 56 0.1%
German 54 0.1%
French (incl. Cajun) 43 0.1%
Slavic languages 20 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 35,873
Family households: 24,649; 68.7% of households
Married w/ children: 17,822
Single-mother households: 2,234
Veterans: 4,574; 6.4% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

63.1% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 39,272 44.8%
Mainline Protestant 6,894 7.9%
Catholic 4,527 5.2%
Black Protestant 2,902 3.3%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,671 1.9%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 88.5%
With a disability: 19.8%
Bachelor's or higher: 20.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 36th 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: Lenoir, Morganton

Court reference

Traffic safety context

North Carolina statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 11; 15.37 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 9

NHTSA FARS 2023