Jury Pool Profile
Henderson County, North Carolina
Republican +14 (2024)
- Population
- 117,387
- Median household income
- $67,623
- Unemployment
- 3.3%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 98,766 84.1%
- Black or African American alone 3,842 3.3%
- Asian alone 1,520 1.3%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 679 0.6%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 143 0.1%
- Some other race alone 5,460 4.7%
- Two or more races 6,977 5.9%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 15,034 12.8%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 47.2
- Under 18 22,278 19.0%
- 18–24 7,511 6.4%
- 25–44 25,658 21.9%
- 45–64 31,388 26.7%
- 65 and over 30,552 26.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 3.3%
- -0.52 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $6.4B
- 0.75% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $54,106
- Establishments
- 4,120
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 11,170 25.3%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 9,686 21.9%
- Manufacturing 5,807 13.1%
- Leisure & hospitality 4,834 10.9%
- Professional & business services 4,072 9.2%
- Construction 2,717 6.1%
- Public administration 1,806 4.1%
- Other services 1,503 3.4%
- Natural resources & mining 1,249 2.8%
- Financial activities 1,063 2.4%
- Information 294 0.7%
- Unclassified 5 0.0%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 74.2%
- Median gross rent
- $1,120
- Owner-occupied
- 37,421
- Renter-occupied
- 13,002
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 69,651 votes cast
- Republican 39,497 56.7%
- Democratic 29,361 42.2%
- Other / third-party 793 1.1%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
88.4% speak only English at home
- Spanish 10,480 9.4%
- German 570 0.5%
- Other Asian/Pacific 439 0.4%
- Slavic languages 362 0.3%
- Other 270 0.2%
- French (incl. Cajun) 214 0.2%
- Chinese 196 0.2%
- Other Indo-European 187 0.2%
- Vietnamese 101 0.1%
- Arabic 80 0.1%
- Tagalog 51 0.0%
- Korean 1 0.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 50,423
- Family households
- 34,081
- 67.6% of households
- Married w/ children
- 27,058
- Single-mother households
- 2,707
- Veterans
- 7,812
- 8.2% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
49.4% overall adherence rate
- Evangelical Protestant 32,078 27.6%
- Catholic 12,701 10.9%
- Mainline Protestant 8,607 7.4%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 3,371 2.9%
- Black Protestant 552 0.5%
- Orthodox 86 0.1%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 87.8%
- With a disability
- 15.0%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 35.1%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 42nd 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
- Brevard, Columbus, Hendersonville
This judicial district spans multiple countys.
Traffic safety context
North Carolina statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 12
- 12.62 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 12
NHTSA FARS 2023