Craven County, North Carolina

• White (non-Hispanic) 66,187 64.5%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 7,996 7.8%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 20,030 19.5%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 2,944 2.9%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 3,989 3.9%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 184 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 160 0.2%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 1,122 1.1%

• Under 18 21,819 21.3%
• 18–24 11,169 10.9%
• 25–44 24,888 24.3%
• 45–64 23,290 22.7%
• 65 and over 21,446 20.9%

Median household income

$65,661

90% interval $59,644–$71,678

−$8,394 vs NC · 41st of 100

Below poverty line

12.7%

90% interval 10.3%–15.1%

+0.1 pp vs NC · 66th of 100

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.8%

+0.09 pp vs. state

County GDP

$6.9B

0.82% of state

Avg. annual pay

$57,163

Establishments

2,672

• Education & health services 9,925 24.6%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 7,529 18.6%
• Public administration 6,918 17.1%
• Leisure & hospitality 4,726 11.7%
• Professional & business services 3,967 9.8%
• Manufacturing 3,539 8.8%
• Financial activities 1,056 2.6%
• Other services 892 2.2%
• Information 48 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 95.5% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

68.4%

+1.8 pp vs NC · 69th of 100

Median gross rent

$1,110

−$118 vs NC · 28th of 100

Owner-occupied

29,343

Renter-occupied

13,528

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 60% 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 (Public administration, $78,793/yr) pays 3.5× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $22,450/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 15 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Republican 33,477 59.8%
• Democratic 22,011 39.3%
• Other / third-party 540 1.0%

• Spanish 4,536 4.7%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 326 0.3%
• Tagalog 309 0.3%
• German or other West Germanic 287 0.3%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 277 0.3%
• Korean 184 0.2%
• Vietnamese 163 0.2%
• Chinese 35 0.0%
• Arabic 29 0.0%

Households

42,871

Family households

27,471

64.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

6,020

21.9% of families

Single-mother families

2,668

9.7% of families

Veterans

10,968

14.5% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 20,148 20.0%
• Mainline Protestant 10,820 10.7%
• Catholic 9,960 9.9%
• Black Protestant 8,646 8.6%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 3,028 3.0%

Health insured

92.2%

±1 pp

Uninsured

7.8%

±1 pp

90th of 100

With a disability

16.0%

±0.9 pp

60th of 100

Bachelor's or higher

27.5%

±1.4 pp

−8.2 pp vs NC · 35th of 100

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

9.2%

90% interval 8.3%–10.1% · 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

12

14.85 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

11