Jury Pool Profile

Chatham County, North Carolina

Democratic +12 (2024)

Population: 78,319
Median household income: $88,534
Unemployment: 3.3%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 56,808 72.5%
Black or African American alone 8,238 10.5%
Asian alone 1,592 2.0%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 99 0.1%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
Some other race alone 5,821 7.4%
Two or more races 5,761 7.4%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 10,520 13.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 47.6

Under 18 15,414 19.7%
18–24 5,204 6.6%
25–44 15,972 20.4%
45–64 22,198 28.3%
65 and over 19,531 24.9%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.3%; -0.48 pp vs. state
County GDP: $2.9B; 0.35% of state
Avg. annual pay: $51,876
Establishments: 2,182

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 4,549 24.5%
Trade, transportation & utilities 2,884 15.6%
Professional & business services 2,245 12.1%
Leisure & hospitality 2,073 11.2%
Construction 1,882 10.2%
Manufacturing 1,660 9.0%
Public administration 1,271 6.9%
Other services 800 4.3%
Natural resources & mining 575 3.1%
Financial activities 515 2.8%
Information 82 0.4%
Unclassified 4 0.0%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 80.4%
Median gross rent: $1,066
Owner-occupied: 25,936
Renter-occupied: 6,317

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 52,098 votes cast

Democratic 29,014 55.7%
Republican 22,507 43.2%
Other / third-party 577 1.1%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

85.1% speak only English at home

Spanish 8,426 11.3%
Other Indo-European 887 1.2%
Chinese 656 0.9%
German 369 0.5%
Slavic languages 225 0.3%
French (incl. Cajun) 193 0.3%
Arabic 138 0.2%
Other Asian/Pacific 106 0.1%
Other 85 0.1%
Tagalog 52 0.1%
Vietnamese 34 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 32,253
Family households: 22,884; 71.0% of households
Married w/ children: 18,757
Single-mother households: 1,413
Veterans: 4,387; 7% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

41.2% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 14,029 18.4%
Black Protestant 6,264 8.2%
Mainline Protestant 5,895 7.7%
Catholic 3,651 4.8%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,599 2.1%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 91.4%
With a disability: 11.8%
Bachelor's or higher: 48.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 18th 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: Hillsborough, Pittsboro

Court reference

Traffic safety context

North Carolina statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 17; 27.02 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 16

NHTSA FARS 2023