Duplin County, North Carolina

• White (non-Hispanic) 24,769 50.2%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 11,496 23.3%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 10,883 22.1%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 288 0.6%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,761 3.6%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 46 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 14 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 78 0.2%

• Under 18 11,708 23.7%
• 18–24 4,211 8.5%
• 25–44 11,090 22.5%
• 45–64 12,511 25.4%
• 65 and over 9,815 19.9%

Median household income

$56,729

90% interval $52,658–$60,800

−$17,326 vs NC · 74th of 100

Below poverty line

21.1%

90% interval 18.1%–24.1%

+8.5 pp vs NC · 7th of 100

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.2%

−0.51 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.9B

0.35% of state

Avg. annual pay

$47,638

Establishments

1,120

• Manufacturing 6,952 35.4%
• Education & health services 3,398 17.3%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 2,792 14.2%
• Professional & business services 1,955 10.0%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,169 6.0%
• Natural resources & mining 1,099 5.6%
• Public administration 1,032 5.3%
• Construction 732 3.7%
• Financial activities 257 1.3%

The sectors listed cover 98.8% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

70.3%

+3.7 pp vs NC · 64th of 100

Median gross rent

$865

−$363 vs NC · 56th of 100

Owner-occupied

14,621

Renter-occupied

6,166

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 67% of the county workforce. Most panelists likely share employer relationships within these sectors, surface those connections early in voir dire before any institutional-defendant or sector-specific framing.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Construction, $60,280/yr) pays 3.2× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $19,133/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 18 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 14,677 64.2%
• Democratic 8,057 35.2%
• Other / third-party 130 0.6%

• Spanish 9,287 20.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 631 1.4%
• Chinese 114 0.2%
• German or other West Germanic 104 0.2%
• Arabic 75 0.2%
• Vietnamese 62 0.1%
• Tagalog 49 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 29 0.1%
• Korean 1 0.0%

Households

20,787

Family households

13,886

66.8% of households

Married couples w/ children

3,394

24.4% of families

Single-mother families

1,477

10.6% of families

Veterans

3,141

8.4% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 11,261 23.1%
• Black Protestant 3,639 7.5%
• Mainline Protestant 3,132 6.4%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,231 2.5%
• Catholic 813 1.7%

Health insured

85.0%

±1.6 pp

Uninsured

15.0%

±1.6 pp

7th of 100

With a disability

17.2%

±1.3 pp

48th of 100

Bachelor's or higher

17.6%

±1.8 pp

−18.1 pp vs NC · 78th of 100

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

16.4%

90% interval 14.9%–17.9% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

5th 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

Clinton, Jacksonville, Kenansville, Trenton

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

19

50.5 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

18