Jury Pool Profile
Harnett County, North Carolina
Republican +25 (2024)
- Population
- 136,503
- Median household income
- $69,012
- Unemployment
- 4.0%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 85,935 63.0%
- Black or African American alone 28,377 20.8%
- Asian alone 1,616 1.2%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 1,641 1.2%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 306 0.2%
- Some other race alone 8,016 5.9%
- Two or more races 10,612 7.8%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 19,970 14.6%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 35.4
- Under 18 34,991 25.6%
- 18–24 11,511 8.4%
- 25–44 40,061 29.3%
- 45–64 31,640 23.2%
- 65 and over 18,300 13.4%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 4.0%
- +0.17 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $4.0B
- 0.47% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $46,955
- Establishments
- 2,384
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 7,752 27.6%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 6,867 24.5%
- Leisure & hospitality 3,594 12.8%
- Professional & business services 2,403 8.6%
- Construction 2,366 8.4%
- Public administration 1,910 6.8%
- Manufacturing 1,770 6.3%
- Financial activities 646 2.3%
- Other services 494 1.8%
- Natural resources & mining 218 0.8%
- Information 62 0.2%
- Unclassified 1 0.0%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 69.5%
- Median gross rent
- $1,080
- Owner-occupied
- 33,801
- Renter-occupied
- 14,838
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 63,597 votes cast
- Republican 39,440 62.0%
- Democratic 23,472 36.9%
- Other / third-party 685 1.1%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
88.2% speak only English at home
- Spanish 12,658 10.0%
- French (incl. Cajun) 484 0.4%
- German 441 0.3%
- Korean 239 0.2%
- Other 235 0.2%
- Other Indo-European 204 0.2%
- Tagalog 171 0.1%
- Slavic languages 160 0.1%
- Chinese 116 0.1%
- Other Asian/Pacific 112 0.1%
- Arabic 103 0.1%
- Vietnamese 65 0.1%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 48,639
- Family households
- 33,475
- 68.8% of households
- Married w/ children
- 25,243
- Single-mother households
- 3,581
- Veterans
- 10,898
- 11.3% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
35.8% overall adherence rate
- Evangelical Protestant 31,698 23.7%
- Mainline Protestant 7,651 5.7%
- Black Protestant 4,119 3.1%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 3,532 2.6%
- Catholic 836 0.6%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 89.3%
- With a disability
- 15.5%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 23.9%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 12th 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
- Lillington, Sanford
This judicial district spans multiple countys.
Traffic safety context
North Carolina statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 30
- 29.55 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 25
NHTSA FARS 2023