Forsyth County, North Carolina

• White (non-Hispanic) 208,781 53.5%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 58,888 15.1%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 95,863 24.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 9,098 2.3%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 14,640 3.8%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 473 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 273 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 1,961 0.5%

• Under 18 88,343 22.7%
• 18–24 38,698 9.9%
• 25–44 99,290 25.5%
• 45–64 97,512 25.0%
• 65 and over 66,134 17.0%

Median household income

$67,638

90% interval $63,230–$72,046

−$6,417 vs NC · 35th of 100

Below poverty line

13.3%

90% interval 11.7%–14.9%

+0.7 pp vs NC · 63rd of 100

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.9%

+0.14 pp vs. state

County GDP

$34.4B

4.07% of state

Avg. annual pay

$69,731

Establishments

10,844

• Education & health services 61,304 32.2%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 32,891 17.3%
• Professional & business services 24,830 13.0%
• Leisure & hospitality 21,036 11.1%
• Manufacturing 17,110 9.0%
• Financial activities 10,226 5.4%
• Public administration 7,937 4.2%
• Other services 4,858 2.6%

The sectors listed cover 94.7% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

63.6%

−3.0 pp vs NC · 84th of 100

Median gross rent

$1,098

−$130 vs NC · 31st of 100

Owner-occupied

101,645

Renter-occupied

58,280

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 63% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $112,570/yr) pays 4.5× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $24,966/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• 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.

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

• Spanish 44,811 12.2%
• Chinese 1,972 0.5%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 1,358 0.4%
• Arabic 1,124 0.3%
• German or other West Germanic 1,061 0.3%
• Tagalog 1,060 0.3%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 673 0.2%
• Vietnamese 375 0.1%
• Korean 296 0.1%

Households

159,925

Family households

98,546

61.6% of households

Married couples w/ children

25,360

25.7% of families

Single-mother families

12,520

12.7% of families

Veterans

19,059

6.3% of civilians 18+

• 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%

Health insured

90.2%

±0.6 pp

Uninsured

9.8%

±0.6 pp

54th of 100

With a disability

12.7%

±0.4 pp

86th of 100

Bachelor's or higher

38.5%

±1 pp

+2.8 pp vs NC · 14th of 100

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

11.0%

90% interval 10.1%–11.9% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

31st Judicial District Superior Court

Judges

5 (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

Traffic fatalities

39

12.93 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

39