Hertford County, North Carolina

• White (non-Hispanic) 6,406 32.2%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,274 6.4%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 11,063 55.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 215 1.1%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 717 3.6%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 152 0.8%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 23 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 58 0.3%

• Under 18 3,837 19.3%
• 18–24 2,206 11.1%
• 25–44 4,472 22.5%
• 45–64 4,860 24.4%
• 65 and over 4,533 22.8%

Median household income

$48,051

90% interval $42,712–$53,390

−$26,004 vs NC · 97th of 100

Below poverty line

22.9%

90% interval 18.4%–27.4%

+10.3 pp vs NC · 2nd of 100

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.2%

+0.43 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.1B

0.13% of state

Avg. annual pay

$49,904

Establishments

447

• Education & health services 2,993 35.7%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 2,136 25.5%
• Manufacturing 974 11.6%
• Leisure & hospitality 645 7.7%
• Public administration 528 6.3%
• Construction 405 4.8%
• Financial activities 200 2.4%
• Natural resources & mining 165 2.0%
• Other services 159 1.9%
• Information 16 0.2%
• Professional & business services 4 0.0%

The sectors listed cover 98.0% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

67.4%

+0.8 pp vs NC · 72nd of 100

Median gross rent

$844

−$384 vs NC · 63rd of 100

Owner-occupied

5,581

Renter-occupied

2,704

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 73% of the county workforce. Most panelists likely share employer relationships within these sectors, surface those connections early in voir dire before any institutional-defendant or sector-specific framing.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Manufacturing, $102,840/yr) pays 5.6× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $18,483/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 19 workers, typical of an institutional-employer economy where large hospitals, plants, schools, and government agencies dominate. Expect many panelists to share an employer rather than work for themselves.

• Democratic 6,191 63.1%
• Republican 3,561 36.3%
• Other / third-party 67 0.7%

• Spanish 721 3.8%
• German or other West Germanic 16 0.1%
• Chinese 13 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 11 0.1%
• Tagalog 9 0.0%
• Korean 8 0.0%

Households

8,285

Family households

5,028

60.7% of households

Married couples w/ children

986

19.6% of families

Single-mother families

729

14.5% of families

Veterans

1,332

8.3% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 9,115 42.3%
• Black Protestant 2,074 9.6%
• Mainline Protestant 632 2.9%
• Catholic 396 1.8%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 174 0.8%

Health insured

91.4%

±1.7 pp

Uninsured

8.6%

±1.7 pp

81st of 100

With a disability

20.0%

±1.7 pp

16th of 100

Bachelor's or higher

16.6%

±1.9 pp

−19.1 pp vs NC · 87th of 100

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

10.2%

90% interval 9.0%–11.4% · 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

7

43.56 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

6