Henderson County, North Carolina

• White (non-Hispanic) 94,172 79.5%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 15,507 13.1%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 3,107 2.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 1,361 1.1%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 3,231 2.7%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 290 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 242 0.2%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 574 0.5%

• Under 18 22,143 18.7%
• 18–24 7,515 6.3%
• 25–44 26,025 22.0%
• 45–64 31,425 26.5%
• 65 and over 31,376 26.5%

Median household income

$72,820

90% interval $66,066–$79,574

−$1,235 vs NC · 23rd of 100

Below poverty line

9.8%

90% interval 8.0%–11.6%

−2.8 pp vs NC · 88th of 100

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.1%

−0.6 pp vs. state

County GDP

$6.4B

0.75% of state

Avg. annual pay

$56,515

Establishments

4,018

• Education & health services 11,151 25.4%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 9,432 21.5%
• Manufacturing 5,656 12.9%
• Leisure & hospitality 4,958 11.3%
• Professional & business services 3,965 9.0%
• Construction 2,792 6.4%
• Public administration 1,834 4.2%
• Other services 1,563 3.6%
• Natural resources & mining 1,160 2.6%

The sectors listed cover 96.9% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

75.0%

+8.4 pp vs NC · 35th of 100

Median gross rent

$1,187

−$41 vs NC · 17th of 100

Owner-occupied

38,311

Renter-occupied

12,756

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 60% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Compressed wage spread

  Highest-paid sector pays only 2.4× the lowest ($69,022 vs $28,596/yr), a relatively flat local wage distribution.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 11 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Republican 39,497 56.7%
• Democratic 29,361 42.2%
• Other / third-party 793 1.1%

• Spanish 11,339 10.0%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 384 0.3%
• German or other West Germanic 357 0.3%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 172 0.2%
• Chinese 97 0.1%
• Tagalog 95 0.1%
• Vietnamese 89 0.1%
• Arabic 75 0.1%
• Korean 21 0.0%

Households

51,067

Family households

34,806

68.2% of households

Married couples w/ children

7,461

21.4% of families

Single-mother families

2,864

8.2% of families

Veterans

7,811

8.1% of civilians 18+

• 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%

Health insured

87.6%

±0.9 pp

Uninsured

12.4%

±0.9 pp

19th of 100

With a disability

15.1%

±0.9 pp

73rd of 100

Bachelor's or higher

36.5%

±1.4 pp

+0.8 pp vs NC · 16th of 100

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

12.3%

90% interval 11.1%–13.5% · Census SAHIE

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

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 counties.

Traffic fatalities

16

16.61 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

16