Chatham County, North Carolina

• White (non-Hispanic) 55,672 69.5%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 10,930 13.6%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 7,977 10.0%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 1,791 2.2%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 3,016 3.8%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 107 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 68 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 590 0.7%

• Under 18 15,516 19.4%
• 18–24 5,288 6.6%
• 25–44 16,777 20.9%
• 45–64 22,379 27.9%
• 65 and over 20,191 25.2%

Median household income

$100,222

90% interval $93,236–$107,208

+$26,167 vs NC · 3rd of 100

Below poverty line

8.7%

90% interval 7.0%–10.4%

−3.9 pp vs NC · 94th of 100

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.3%

−0.5 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.9B

0.35% of state

Avg. annual pay

$56,422

Establishments

2,433

• Education & health services 4,863 23.9%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 3,372 16.6%
• Professional & business services 2,778 13.7%
• Leisure & hospitality 2,208 10.9%
• Construction 1,972 9.7%
• Manufacturing 1,650 8.1%
• Public administration 1,233 6.1%
• Other services 814 4.0%
• Natural resources & mining 730 3.6%

The sectors listed cover 96.6% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

80.6%

+14.0 pp vs NC · 14th of 100

Median gross rent

$1,180

−$48 vs NC · 18th of 100

Owner-occupied

26,591

Renter-occupied

6,413

• Diversified

  Top three sectors employ 54% of the workforce, a relatively diversified local economy. Expect mixed employer backgrounds on the panel rather than concentration in any one institution or industry.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Natural resources & mining, $77,495/yr) pays 3.0× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $25,591/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Small-business scale

  Average establishment employs only 8.4 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

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

• Spanish 8,743 11.4%
• Chinese 468 0.6%
• German or other West Germanic 253 0.3%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 242 0.3%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 241 0.3%
• Arabic 135 0.2%
• Tagalog 62 0.1%
• Korean 55 0.1%

Households

33,004

Family households

23,243

70.4% of households

Married couples w/ children

6,445

27.7% of families

Single-mother families

1,143

4.9% of families

Veterans

4,637

7.2% of civilians 18+

• 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%

Health insured

90.6%

±1.3 pp

Uninsured

9.4%

±1.3 pp

60th of 100

With a disability

11.3%

±1.1 pp

93rd of 100

Bachelor's or higher

48.9%

±2.5 pp

+13.2 pp vs NC · 5th of 100

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

11.2%

90% interval 10.1%–12.3% · Census SAHIE

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

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

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

17

26.3 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

17