Jury Pool Profile
Catawba County, North Carolina
Republican +38 (2024)
- Population
- 162,051
- Median household income
- $64,544
- Unemployment
- 3.6%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 122,846 75.8%
- Black or African American alone 12,975 8.0%
- Asian alone 6,703 4.1%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 772 0.5%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 65 0.0%
- Some other race alone 6,849 4.2%
- Two or more races 11,841 7.3%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 17,954 11.1%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 41.8
- Under 18 35,431 21.9%
- 18–24 13,543 8.4%
- 25–44 38,487 23.7%
- 45–64 44,733 27.6%
- 65 and over 29,857 18.4%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 3.6%
- -0.2 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $12.4B
- 1.47% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $55,761
- Establishments
- 5,206
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Manufacturing 23,353 26.1%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 20,910 23.4%
- Education & health services 15,473 17.3%
- Leisure & hospitality 9,030 10.1%
- Professional & business services 8,878 9.9%
- Public administration 3,507 3.9%
- Construction 3,473 3.9%
- Other services 1,922 2.2%
- Financial activities 1,789 2.0%
- Information 905 1.0%
- Natural resources & mining 135 0.2%
- Unclassified 12 0.0%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 72.7%
- Median gross rent
- $891
- Owner-occupied
- 47,414
- Renter-occupied
- 17,787
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 86,885 votes cast
- Republican 59,577 68.6%
- Democratic 26,569 30.6%
- Other / third-party 739 0.9%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
87.2% speak only English at home
- Spanish 12,964 8.5%
- Other Asian/Pacific 4,215 2.7%
- Other Indo-European 860 0.6%
- Vietnamese 333 0.2%
- Tagalog 309 0.2%
- German 212 0.1%
- French (incl. Cajun) 211 0.1%
- Slavic languages 177 0.1%
- Chinese 165 0.1%
- Arabic 72 0.0%
- Korean 15 0.0%
- Other 15 0.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 65,201
- Family households
- 43,887
- 67.3% of households
- Married w/ children
- 32,144
- Single-mother households
- 4,003
- Veterans
- 8,148
- 6.4% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
58.8% overall adherence rate
- Evangelical Protestant 46,080 28.7%
- Mainline Protestant 28,861 18.0%
- Catholic 13,438 8.4%
- Black Protestant 3,078 1.9%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,942 1.8%
- Orthodox 35 0.0%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 88.2%
- With a disability
- 13.9%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 24.9%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 19th 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
- Newton, Taylorsville
This judicial district spans multiple countys.
Traffic safety context
North Carolina statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 25
- 19.74 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 23
NHTSA FARS 2023