Jury Pool Profile

Halifax County, North Carolina

Democratic +18 (2024)

Population: 48,219
Median household income: $45,071
Unemployment: 5.4%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 17,937 37.2%
Black or African American alone 25,038 51.9%
Asian alone 446 0.9%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 1,424 3.0%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 24 0.0%
Some other race alone 776 1.6%
Two or more races 2,574 5.3%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,558 3.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 43.8

Under 18 10,251 21.3%
18–24 3,473 7.2%
25–44 11,186 23.2%
45–64 12,883 26.7%
65 and over 10,426 21.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 5.4%; +1.59 pp vs. state
County GDP: $1.9B; 0.23% of state
Avg. annual pay: $47,039
Establishments: 1,094

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 3,882 25.6%
Trade, transportation & utilities 3,053 20.1%
Manufacturing 2,189 14.4%
Leisure & hospitality 2,059 13.6%
Public administration 1,400 9.2%
Professional & business services 774 5.1%
Construction 639 4.2%
Financial activities 427 2.8%
Other services 422 2.8%
Natural resources & mining 282 1.9%
Information 28 0.2%
Unclassified 3 0.0%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 63.5%
Median gross rent: $776
Owner-occupied: 12,866
Renter-occupied: 7,403

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 23,938 votes cast

Democratic 14,014 58.5%
Republican 9,778 40.8%
Other / third-party 146 0.6%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

95.9% speak only English at home

Spanish 1,228 2.7%
Other Asian/Pacific 147 0.3%
Other 142 0.3%
German 106 0.2%
Tagalog 75 0.2%
French (incl. Cajun) 71 0.2%
Other Indo-European 62 0.1%
Vietnamese 26 0.1%
Chinese 12 0.0%
Arabic 3 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 20,269
Family households: 12,776; 63.0% of households
Married w/ children: 7,860
Single-mother households: 2,212
Veterans: 2,318; 6.1% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

44.7% overall adherence rate

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%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 90.0%
With a disability: 20.9%
Bachelor's or higher: 15.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

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

Court reference

Traffic safety context

North Carolina statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 21; 55.31 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 19

NHTSA FARS 2023