Jury Pool Profile

Gaston County, North Carolina

Republican +25 (2024)

Population: 231,485
Median household income: $65,472
Unemployment: 3.9%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 163,004 70.4%
Black or African American alone 40,681 17.6%
Asian alone 3,825 1.7%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 684 0.3%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 105 0.0%
Some other race alone 7,693 3.3%
Two or more races 15,493 6.7%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 21,518 9.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 39.5

Under 18 52,227 22.6%
18–24 18,326 7.9%
25–44 60,535 26.2%
45–64 62,639 27.1%
65 and over 37,758 16.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.9%; +0.09 pp vs. state
County GDP: $11.3B; 1.33% of state
Avg. annual pay: $54,211
Establishments: 5,635

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 19,720 24.8%
Trade, transportation & utilities 15,908 20.0%
Manufacturing 14,299 18.0%
Leisure & hospitality 9,059 11.4%
Professional & business services 6,345 8.0%
Construction 5,137 6.5%
Public administration 4,440 5.6%
Financial activities 1,982 2.5%
Other services 1,868 2.4%
Information 544 0.7%
Natural resources & mining 172 0.2%
Unclassified 11 0.0%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 65.8%
Median gross rent: $1,085
Owner-occupied: 60,745
Renter-occupied: 31,542

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 118,959 votes cast

Republican 73,828 62.1%
Democratic 44,062 37.0%
Other / third-party 1,069 0.9%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

90.7% speak only English at home

Spanish 15,437 7.1%
Other Indo-European 1,215 0.6%
Other Asian/Pacific 947 0.4%
Slavic languages 482 0.2%
German 405 0.2%
French (incl. Cajun) 400 0.2%
Other 371 0.2%
Vietnamese 287 0.1%
Tagalog 280 0.1%
Chinese 245 0.1%
Korean 117 0.1%
Arabic 105 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 92,287
Family households: 60,960; 66.1% of households
Married w/ children: 42,246
Single-mother households: 6,630
Veterans: 12,778; 7.1% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

57.0% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 82,742 36.3%
Mainline Protestant 17,752 7.8%
Catholic 15,555 6.8%
Black Protestant 7,268 3.2%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 6,530 2.9%
Orthodox 20 0.0%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 89.1%
With a disability: 14.5%
Bachelor's or higher: 26.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 38th 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: Gastonia

Court reference

Traffic safety context

North Carolina statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 26; 14.5 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 26

NHTSA FARS 2023