Durham County, North Carolina

• White (non-Hispanic) 138,543 41.7%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 52,523 15.8%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 105,711 31.8%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 17,932 5.4%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 15,087 4.5%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 729 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 121 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 1,707 0.5%

• Under 18 66,603 20.0%
• 18–24 33,331 10.0%
• 25–44 108,163 32.5%
• 45–64 76,092 22.9%
• 65 and over 48,164 14.5%

Median household income

$84,375

90% interval $80,499–$88,251

+$10,320 vs NC · 12th of 100

Below poverty line

11.3%

90% interval 9.4%–13.2%

−1.3 pp vs NC · 82nd of 100

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.4%

−0.38 pp vs. state

County GDP

$53.3B

6.31% of state

Avg. annual pay

$103,812

Establishments

11,213

• Education & health services 74,988 32.1%
• Professional & business services 51,594 22.1%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 29,844 12.8%
• Manufacturing 21,897 9.4%
• Leisure & hospitality 18,164 7.8%
• Financial activities 12,765 5.5%
• Public administration 8,744 3.7%
• Other services 5,473 2.3%

The sectors listed cover 95.6% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

55.5%

−11.1 pp vs NC · 97th of 100

Median gross rent

$1,508

+$280 vs NC · 3rd of 100

Owner-occupied

78,724

Renter-occupied

63,123

• 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.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Manufacturing, $157,154/yr) pays 5.1× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $30,528/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 21 workers, typical of an institutional-employer economy where large hospitals, plants, schools, and government agencies dominate. Expect many panelists to share an employer rather than work for themselves.

• Democratic 144,450 80.2%
• Republican 32,853 18.2%
• Other / third-party 2,886 1.6%

• Spanish 42,102 13.5%
• Chinese 4,525 1.4%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 1,372 0.4%
• Tagalog 1,345 0.4%
• Arabic 927 0.3%
• German or other West Germanic 919 0.3%
• Vietnamese 793 0.3%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 621 0.2%
• Korean 485 0.2%

Households

141,847

Family households

78,502

55.3% of households

Married couples w/ children

20,157

25.7% of families

Single-mother families

8,302

10.6% of families

Veterans

13,951

5.3% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 66,681 20.5%
• Mainline Protestant 25,250 7.8%
• Catholic 22,144 6.8%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 18,670 5.7%
• Black Protestant 11,723 3.6%
• Orthodox 1,415 0.4%

Health insured

89.2%

±0.7 pp

Uninsured

10.8%

±0.7 pp

36th of 100

With a disability

10.5%

±0.6 pp

96th of 100

Bachelor's or higher

55.2%

±1.4 pp

+19.5 pp vs NC · 3rd of 100

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

10.1%

90% interval 9.2%–11.0% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

16th Judicial District Superior Court

Judges

4 (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

Durham

Traffic fatalities

31

11.67 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

30