Jury Pool Profile
Jones County, North Carolina
Republican +26 (2024)
- Population
- 9,245
- Median household income
- $55,659
- Unemployment
- 4.0%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 5,857 63.4%
- Black or African American alone 2,523 27.3%
- Asian alone 67 0.7%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 55 0.6%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
- Some other race alone 53 0.6%
- Two or more races 690 7.5%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 441 4.8%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 48.1
- Under 18 1,700 18.4%
- 18–24 649 7.0%
- 25–44 1,987 21.5%
- 45–64 2,707 29.3%
- 65 and over 2,202 23.8%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 4.0%
- +0.21 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $306.6M
- 0.04% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $48,166
- Establishments
- 212
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 558 33.3%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 274 16.3%
- Public administration 214 12.8%
- Leisure & hospitality 140 8.3%
- Construction 136 8.1%
- Natural resources & mining 114 6.8%
- Professional & business services 98 5.8%
- Manufacturing 69 4.1%
- Other services 43 2.6%
- Information 5 0.3%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 75.6%
- Median gross rent
- $725
- Owner-occupied
- 2,961
- Renter-occupied
- 954
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 5,458 votes cast
- Republican 3,409 62.5%
- Democratic 2,007 36.8%
- Other / third-party 42 0.8%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
95.1% speak only English at home
- Spanish 358 4.1%
- Slavic languages 42 0.5%
- Other Indo-European 21 0.2%
- Other 6 0.1%
- Other Asian/Pacific 3 0.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 3,915
- Family households
- 2,523
- 64.4% of households
- Married w/ children
- 1,837
- Single-mother households
- 200
- Veterans
- 911
- 12.1% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
36.4% overall adherence rate
- Evangelical Protestant 1,627 17.7%
- Mainline Protestant 932 10.2%
- Black Protestant 779 8.5%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 89.4%
- With a disability
- 21.8%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 17.9%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 5th Judicial District Superior Court
- Judges
- 3 (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
- Clinton, Jacksonville, Kenansville, Trenton
This judicial district spans multiple countys.
Traffic safety context
North Carolina statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 2
- 26.51 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 2
NHTSA FARS 2023