Jones County, North Carolina

• White (non-Hispanic) 5,866 63.1%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 471 5.1%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 2,475 26.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 112 1.2%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 335 3.6%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 43 0.5%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%

• Under 18 1,724 18.5%
• 18–24 574 6.2%
• 25–44 2,089 22.5%
• 45–64 2,667 28.7%
• 65 and over 2,248 24.2%

Median household income

$56,456

90% interval $50,009–$62,903

−$17,599 vs NC · 75th of 100

Below poverty line

17.3%

90% interval 13.3%–21.3%

+4.7 pp vs NC · 27th of 100

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.9%

+0.1 pp vs. state

County GDP

$306.6M

0.04% of state

Avg. annual pay

$50,616

Establishments

187

• Education & health services 557 35.2%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 281 17.8%
• Public administration 204 12.9%
• Construction 142 9.0%
• Manufacturing 104 6.6%
• Professional & business services 77 4.9%
• Natural resources & mining 74 4.7%
• Information 5 0.3%

The sectors listed cover 91.3% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

79.4%

+12.8 pp vs NC · 16th of 100

Median gross rent

$747

−$481 vs NC · 90th of 100

Owner-occupied

3,277

Renter-occupied

848

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 66% 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.

• Compressed wage spread

  Highest-paid sector pays only 1.5× the lowest ($60,479 vs $39,404/yr), a relatively flat local wage distribution.

• Small-business scale

  Average establishment employs only 8.5 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

• Republican 3,409 62.5%
• Democratic 2,007 36.8%
• Other / third-party 42 0.8%

• Spanish 378 4.3%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 49 0.6%
• German or other West Germanic 4 0.0%

Households

4,125

Family households

2,767

67.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

443

16.0% of families

Single-mother families

289

10.4% of families

Veterans

919

12.2% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 1,627 17.7%
• Mainline Protestant 932 10.2%
• Black Protestant 779 8.5%

Health insured

90.8%

±1.8 pp

Uninsured

9.2%

±1.8 pp

69th of 100

With a disability

20.7%

±2.6 pp

12th of 100

Bachelor's or higher

19.8%

±3.3 pp

−15.9 pp vs NC · 66th of 100

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

11.3%

90% interval 9.9%–12.7% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

5th 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

Clinton, Jacksonville, Kenansville, Trenton

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

1

13.2 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

1