Jury Pool Profile

Guilford County, North Carolina

Democratic +22 (2024)

Population: 542,987
Median household income: $66,027
Unemployment: 4.3%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 266,751 49.1%
Black or African American alone 184,691 34.0%
Asian alone 28,082 5.2%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 1,937 0.4%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 66 0.0%
Some other race alone 21,969 4.0%
Two or more races 39,491 7.3%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 53,188 9.8%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 37.4

Under 18 120,325 22.2%
18–24 63,313 11.7%
25–44 139,436 25.7%
45–64 135,080 24.9%
65 and over 84,833 15.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.3%; +0.51 pp vs. state
County GDP: $46.9B; 5.56% of state
Avg. annual pay: $61,546
Establishments: 17,452

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Trade, transportation & utilities 72,253 25.1%
Education & health services 61,377 21.3%
Professional & business services 41,680 14.5%
Manufacturing 31,087 10.8%
Leisure & hospitality 30,698 10.7%
Financial activities 14,387 5.0%
Construction 14,110 4.9%
Public administration 11,368 3.9%
Other services 7,260 2.5%
Information 3,371 1.2%
Natural resources & mining 393 0.1%
Unclassified 13 0.0%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 60.0%
Median gross rent: $1,108
Owner-occupied: 129,397
Renter-occupied: 86,410

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 284,114 votes cast

Democratic 171,118 60.2%
Republican 109,077 38.4%
Other / third-party 3,919 1.4%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

84.1% speak only English at home

Spanish 36,610 7.1%
Other Indo-European 10,013 2.0%
Other 7,386 1.4%
Other Asian/Pacific 7,337 1.4%
Arabic 5,025 1.0%
Vietnamese 3,708 0.7%
French (incl. Cajun) 3,323 0.6%
Chinese 2,708 0.5%
Slavic languages 1,523 0.3%
German 1,507 0.3%
Tagalog 1,239 0.2%
Korean 1,075 0.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 215,807
Family households: 133,505; 61.9% of households
Married w/ children: 90,061
Single-mother households: 17,674
Veterans: 25,442; 6% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

51.9% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 130,518 24.1%
Mainline Protestant 57,069 10.5%
Catholic 45,086 8.3%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 26,375 4.9%
Black Protestant 20,956 3.9%
Orthodox 823 0.2%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 91.0%
With a disability: 12.0%
Bachelor's or higher: 38.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 24th 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: Greensboro

Court reference

Traffic safety context

North Carolina statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 54; 12.78 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 54

NHTSA FARS 2023