Jury Pool Profile

Caldwell County, North Carolina

Republican +53 (2024)

Population: 80,618
Median household income: $55,401
Unemployment: 3.8%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 69,846 86.6%
Black or African American alone 3,319 4.1%
Asian alone 403 0.5%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 72 0.1%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 81 0.1%
Some other race alone 3,071 3.8%
Two or more races 3,826 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5,160 6.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 45.5

Under 18 16,039 19.9%
18–24 6,172 7.7%
25–44 17,600 21.8%
45–64 23,747 29.5%
65 and over 17,060 21.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.8%; +0.01 pp vs. state
County GDP: $3.3B; 0.39% of state
Avg. annual pay: $50,605
Establishments: 1,594

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Manufacturing 5,762 22.6%
Education & health services 5,745 22.5%
Trade, transportation & utilities 5,714 22.4%
Leisure & hospitality 2,232 8.8%
Professional & business services 2,033 8.0%
Public administration 1,488 5.8%
Construction 1,127 4.4%
Other services 584 2.3%
Financial activities 498 2.0%
Information 263 1.0%
Natural resources & mining 60 0.2%
Unclassified 3 0.0%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 74.0%
Median gross rent: $735
Owner-occupied: 24,251
Renter-occupied: 8,515

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 43,451 votes cast

Republican 33,009 76.0%
Democratic 10,146 23.4%
Other / third-party 296 0.7%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

93.8% speak only English at home

Spanish 3,624 4.7%
Other Indo-European 241 0.3%
Other Asian/Pacific 191 0.2%
Vietnamese 154 0.2%
Arabic 154 0.2%
German 124 0.2%
Slavic languages 85 0.1%
Tagalog 79 0.1%
French (incl. Cajun) 66 0.1%
Other 58 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 32,766
Family households: 21,762; 66.4% of households
Married w/ children: 15,409
Single-mother households: 1,828
Veterans: 4,557; 7.1% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

57.3% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 35,024 43.4%
Mainline Protestant 5,084 6.3%
Catholic 4,026 5.0%
Black Protestant 1,304 1.6%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 811 1.0%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 88.7%
With a disability: 18.6%
Bachelor's or higher: 18.6%

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: 10; 15.48 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 9

NHTSA FARS 2023