Halifax County, North Carolina

• White (non-Hispanic) 17,496 36.7%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,612 3.4%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 24,542 51.5%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 438 0.9%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 2,142 4.5%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 1,337 2.8%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 21 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 87 0.2%

• Under 18 10,113 21.2%
• 18–24 3,498 7.3%
• 25–44 11,007 23.1%
• 45–64 12,542 26.3%
• 65 and over 10,515 22.1%

Median household income

$47,318

90% interval $42,900–$51,736

−$26,737 vs NC · 99th of 100

Below poverty line

18.8%

90% interval 15.1%–22.5%

+6.2 pp vs NC · 23rd of 100

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.5%

+1.71 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.9B

0.23% of state

Avg. annual pay

$48,427

Establishments

1,024

• Education & health services 4,016 26.6%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 3,060 20.3%
• Manufacturing 2,185 14.5%
• Leisure & hospitality 2,099 13.9%
• Public administration 1,425 9.4%
• Professional & business services 594 3.9%
• Other services 394 2.6%
• Financial activities 5 0.0%

The sectors listed cover 91.2% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

62.9%

−3.7 pp vs NC · 86th of 100

Median gross rent

$813

−$415 vs NC · 69th of 100

Owner-occupied

12,830

Renter-occupied

7,553

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 61% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Professional & business services, $64,758/yr) pays 3.2× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $20,274/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 15 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 14,014 58.5%
• Republican 9,778 40.8%
• Other / third-party 146 0.6%

• Spanish 1,257 2.8%
• German or other West Germanic 150 0.3%
• Tagalog 91 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 76 0.2%
• Arabic 55 0.1%
• Vietnamese 31 0.1%
• Chinese 16 0.0%

Households

20,383

Family households

12,380

60.7% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,817

14.7% of families

Single-mother families

2,028

16.4% of families

Veterans

2,628

7% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 11,763 24.2%
• Black Protestant 4,231 8.7%
• Mainline Protestant 3,997 8.2%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,206 2.5%
• Catholic 534 1.1%

Health insured

90.9%

±1.1 pp

Uninsured

9.1%

±1.1 pp

71st of 100

With a disability

21.6%

±1.6 pp

8th of 100

Bachelor's or higher

16.1%

±1.5 pp

−19.6 pp vs NC · 91st of 100

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

12.1%

90% interval 10.8%–13.4% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

7th Judicial District Superior Court

Judges

1 (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

Halifax, Jackson, Windsor, Winton

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

13

34.61 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

13