Jury Pool Profile

Forsyth County, North Carolina

Democratic +13 (2024)

Population: 386,740
Median household income: $65,541
Unemployment: 4.0%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 225,043 58.2%
Black or African American alone 98,592 25.5%
Asian alone 9,171 2.4%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 1,530 0.4%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 282 0.1%
Some other race alone 22,254 5.8%
Two or more races 29,868 7.7%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 56,553 14.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 38.3

Under 18 88,214 22.8%
18–24 38,617 10.0%
25–44 97,657 25.3%
45–64 98,018 25.3%
65 and over 64,234 16.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.0%; +0.13 pp vs. state
County GDP: $34.4B; 4.07% of state
Avg. annual pay: $66,257
Establishments: 11,366

U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 60,210 31.3%
Trade, transportation & utilities 35,278 18.3%
Professional & business services 25,674 13.3%
Leisure & hospitality 21,134 11.0%
Manufacturing 16,130 8.4%
Financial activities 10,995 5.7%
Construction 8,371 4.3%
Public administration 7,864 4.1%
Other services 5,146 2.7%
Information 1,508 0.8%
Natural resources & mining 242 0.1%
Unclassified 33 0.0%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 62.7%
Median gross rent: $1,046
Owner-occupied: 97,629
Renter-occupied: 58,114

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 203,928 votes cast

Democratic 114,145 56.0%
Republican 87,292 42.8%
Other / third-party 2,491 1.2%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

84.6% speak only English at home

Spanish 42,639 11.7%
Other Indo-European 3,064 0.8%
Chinese 2,187 0.6%
Other Asian/Pacific 1,772 0.5%
French (incl. Cajun) 1,149 0.3%
Other 1,117 0.3%
Arabic 1,013 0.3%
Tagalog 952 0.3%
German 869 0.2%
Slavic languages 531 0.1%
Vietnamese 505 0.1%
Korean 249 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 155,743
Family households: 96,263; 61.8% of households
Married w/ children: 67,396
Single-mother households: 13,048
Veterans: 18,549; 6.2% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

70.9% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 136,059 35.6%
Mainline Protestant 58,523 15.3%
Catholic 44,916 11.7%
Black Protestant 18,009 4.7%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 12,020 3.1%
Orthodox 1,713 0.4%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 89.5%
With a disability: 12.6%
Bachelor's or higher: 36.9%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 31st 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: Winston-Salem

Court reference

Traffic safety context

North Carolina statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 51; 17.08 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 45

NHTSA FARS 2023