Hoke County, North Carolina

• White (non-Hispanic) 19,401 36.0%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 8,415 15.6%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 17,256 32.1%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 808 1.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 3,867 7.2%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 3,551 6.6%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 40 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 497 0.9%

• Under 18 14,495 26.9%
• 18–24 4,301 8.0%
• 25–44 16,649 30.9%
• 45–64 12,105 22.5%
• 65 and over 6,285 11.7%

Median household income

$68,243

90% interval $62,528–$73,958

−$5,812 vs NC · 34th of 100

Below poverty line

16.2%

90% interval 13.7%–18.7%

+3.6 pp vs NC · 35th of 100

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.6%

+0.82 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.6B

0.19% of state

Avg. annual pay

$48,005

Establishments

700

• Education & health services 3,249 35.0%
• Manufacturing 1,899 20.5%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,398 15.1%
• Public administration 761 8.2%
• Leisure & hospitality 598 6.4%
• Professional & business services 465 5.0%
• Construction 413 4.4%
• Financial activities 181 1.9%
• Other services 179 1.9%
• Natural resources & mining 123 1.3%
• Information 18 0.2%

Home ownership

73.0%

+6.4 pp vs NC · 50th of 100

Median gross rent

$1,089

−$139 vs NC · 32nd of 100

Owner-occupied

14,053

Renter-occupied

5,205

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 71% 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.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Professional & business services, $71,877/yr) pays 3.7× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $19,367/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 13 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Democratic 11,896 52.3%
• Republican 10,547 46.4%
• Other / third-party 281 1.2%

• Spanish 4,568 9.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 280 0.6%
• German or other West Germanic 213 0.4%
• Vietnamese 136 0.3%
• Chinese 104 0.2%
• Korean 80 0.2%
• Tagalog 40 0.1%

Households

19,258

Family households

13,214

68.6% of households

Married couples w/ children

3,955

29.9% of families

Single-mother families

1,839

13.9% of families

Veterans

6,926

19% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 8,566 16.4%
• Black Protestant 2,382 4.6%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,101 4.0%
• Mainline Protestant 1,152 2.2%
• Catholic 1,015 1.9%

Health insured

89.7%

±1.2 pp

Uninsured

10.3%

±1.2 pp

44th of 100

With a disability

17.4%

±1.2 pp

44th of 100

Bachelor's or higher

23.5%

±1.6 pp

−12.2 pp vs NC · 51st of 100

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

10.2%

90% interval 9.1%–11.3% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

29th Judicial District Superior Court

Judges

2 (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

Carthage, Raeford

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

15

38.13 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

15