Carteret County, North Carolina

• White (non-Hispanic) 58,952 85.3%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3,401 4.9%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 2,841 4.1%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 692 1.0%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 2,810 4.1%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 154 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 11 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 287 0.4%

• Under 18 11,651 16.8%
• 18–24 4,243 6.1%
• 25–44 14,518 21.0%
• 45–64 20,071 29.0%
• 65 and over 18,665 27.0%

Median household income

$76,739

90% interval $70,820–$82,658

+$2,684 vs NC · 20th of 100

Below poverty line

9.5%

90% interval 7.7%–11.3%

−3.1 pp vs NC · 92nd of 100

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.5%

−0.3 pp vs. state

County GDP

$3.7B

0.44% of state

Avg. annual pay

$47,719

Establishments

2,700

• Leisure & hospitality 5,707 22.3%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 5,359 20.9%
• Education & health services 5,263 20.5%
• Professional & business services 2,418 9.4%
• Public administration 2,139 8.3%
• Construction 1,642 6.4%
• Financial activities 1,016 4.0%
• Other services 947 3.7%

The sectors listed cover 95.6% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

74.7%

+8.1 pp vs NC · 38th of 100

Median gross rent

$1,108

−$120 vs NC · 29th of 100

Owner-occupied

23,885

Renter-occupied

8,092

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 64% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $70,083/yr) pays 2.5× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $27,653/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Small-business scale

  Average establishment employs only 9.5 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

• Republican 32,508 71.1%
• Democratic 12,813 28.0%
• Other / third-party 372 0.8%

• Spanish 2,361 3.5%
• German or other West Germanic 401 0.6%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 159 0.2%
• Vietnamese 153 0.2%
• Chinese 92 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 52 0.1%
• Tagalog 47 0.1%
• Arabic 37 0.1%
• Korean 4 0.0%

Households

31,977

Family households

20,254

63.3% of households

Married couples w/ children

4,965

24.5% of families

Single-mother families

1,064

5.3% of families

Veterans

6,799

12% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 10,111 14.9%
• Mainline Protestant 8,115 12.0%
• Catholic 3,232 4.8%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,638 2.4%
• Black Protestant 1,326 2.0%

Health insured

91.9%

±1 pp

Uninsured

8.1%

±1 pp

88th of 100

With a disability

17.5%

±0.9 pp

40th of 100

Bachelor's or higher

34.5%

±1.4 pp

−1.2 pp vs NC · 19th of 100

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

9.8%

90% interval 8.8%–10.8% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

4th Judicial District Superior Court

Judges

3 (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

Bayboro, Beaufort, New Bern

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

13

22.61 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

12