Jury Pool Profile
Dare County, North Carolina
Republican +19 (2024)
- Population
- 37,534
- Median household income
- $81,214
- Unemployment
- 4.6%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 32,757 87.3%
- Black or African American alone 1,052 2.8%
- Asian alone 197 0.5%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 87 0.2%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 22 0.1%
- Some other race alone 1,399 3.7%
- Two or more races 2,020 5.4%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2,665 7.1%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 48.5
- Under 18 6,802 18.1%
- 18–24 2,229 5.9%
- 25–44 7,898 21.0%
- 45–64 11,497 30.6%
- 65 and over 9,108 24.3%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 4.6%
- +0.8 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $3.1B
- 0.37% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $46,480
- Establishments
- 2,329
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Leisure & hospitality 5,520 27.1%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 4,398 21.6%
- Financial activities 2,238 11.0%
- Education & health services 1,953 9.6%
- Public administration 1,848 9.1%
- Professional & business services 1,779 8.7%
- Construction 1,245 6.1%
- Manufacturing 681 3.3%
- Other services 550 2.7%
- Information 128 0.6%
- Natural resources & mining 17 0.1%
- Unclassified 2 0.0%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 77.8%
- Median gross rent
- $1,307
- Owner-occupied
- 12,821
- Renter-occupied
- 3,662
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 25,115 votes cast
- Republican 14,792 58.9%
- Democratic 10,074 40.1%
- Other / third-party 249 1.0%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
91.8% speak only English at home
- Spanish 2,222 6.2%
- French (incl. Cajun) 207 0.6%
- Other Indo-European 156 0.4%
- Slavic languages 85 0.2%
- Chinese 85 0.2%
- Tagalog 77 0.2%
- German 74 0.2%
- Other Asian/Pacific 22 0.1%
- Vietnamese 11 0.0%
- Korean 10 0.0%
- Arabic 2 0.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 16,483
- Family households
- 10,859
- 65.9% of households
- Married w/ children
- 8,228
- Single-mother households
- 1,058
- Veterans
- 2,732
- 8.9% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
50.5% overall adherence rate
- Evangelical Protestant 6,715 18.2%
- Mainline Protestant 6,322 17.1%
- Catholic 4,909 13.3%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 714 1.9%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 91.1%
- With a disability
- 10.6%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 42.8%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 1st 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
- Camden, Currituck, Edenton, Elizabeth City, Gatesville, Hertford, Manteo
This judicial district spans multiple countys.
Traffic safety context
North Carolina statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 6
- 19.52 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 4
NHTSA FARS 2023