Cabarrus County, North Carolina

• White (non-Hispanic) 135,319 57.3%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 30,081 12.7%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 44,139 18.7%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 14,526 6.2%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 10,399 4.4%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 206 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 32 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 1,431 0.6%

• Under 18 59,433 25.2%
• 18–24 19,402 8.2%
• 25–44 64,493 27.3%
• 45–64 60,767 25.7%
• 65 and over 32,038 13.6%

Median household income

$87,867

90% interval $82,391–$93,343

+$13,812 vs NC · 8th of 100

Below poverty line

8.5%

90% interval 7.2%–9.8%

−4.1 pp vs NC · 96th of 100

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.6%

−0.15 pp vs. state

County GDP

$13.0B

1.54% of state

Avg. annual pay

$58,049

Establishments

6,718

• Trade, transportation & utilities 26,531 29.0%
• Education & health services 19,506 21.3%
• Leisure & hospitality 15,202 16.6%
• Professional & business services 8,999 9.8%
• Public administration 4,256 4.6%
• Other services 2,433 2.7%
• Financial activities 2,151 2.3%

The sectors listed cover 86.4% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

71.2%

+4.6 pp vs NC · 59th of 100

Median gross rent

$1,414

+$186 vs NC · 7th of 100

Owner-occupied

59,958

Renter-occupied

24,288

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 67% 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.

• Compressed wage spread

  Highest-paid sector pays only 1.9× the lowest ($72,644 vs $37,478/yr), a relatively flat local wage distribution.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 14 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Republican 63,746 53.2%
• Democratic 54,494 45.5%
• Other / third-party 1,580 1.3%

• Spanish 22,028 9.9%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 725 0.3%
• German or other West Germanic 646 0.3%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 603 0.3%
• Chinese 599 0.3%
• Tagalog 523 0.2%
• Vietnamese 486 0.2%
• Arabic 426 0.2%
• Korean 125 0.1%

Households

84,246

Family households

61,289

72.8% of households

Married couples w/ children

21,111

34.4% of families

Single-mother families

6,142

10.0% of families

Veterans

11,598

6.6% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 65,154 28.9%
• Catholic 24,958 11.1%
• Mainline Protestant 19,164 8.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 7,158 3.2%
• Black Protestant 5,394 2.4%

Health insured

92.1%

±0.8 pp

Uninsured

7.9%

±0.8 pp

89th of 100

With a disability

11.2%

±0.6 pp

94th of 100

Bachelor's or higher

37.9%

±1.4 pp

+2.2 pp vs NC · 15th of 100

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

9.0%

90% interval 8.2%–9.8% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

25th 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

Concord

Traffic fatalities

23

13.02 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

22