Lee County, North Carolina

• White (non-Hispanic) 36,695 55.8%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 14,286 21.7%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 11,333 17.2%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 579 0.9%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 2,842 4.3%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 22 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 8 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 51 0.1%

• Under 18 15,587 23.7%
• 18–24 5,463 8.3%
• 25–44 16,607 25.2%
• 45–64 16,876 25.6%
• 65 and over 11,283 17.1%

Median household income

$71,876

90% interval $65,702–$78,050

−$2,179 vs NC · 25th of 100

Below poverty line

13.5%

90% interval 11.2%–15.8%

+0.9 pp vs NC · 61st of 100

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.7%

−0.08 pp vs. state

County GDP

$4.3B

0.5% of state

Avg. annual pay

$60,057

Establishments

1,744

• Manufacturing 8,520 31.1%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 5,228 19.1%
• Education & health services 4,770 17.4%
• Leisure & hospitality 2,561 9.3%
• Professional & business services 2,166 7.9%
• Public administration 1,359 5.0%
• Financial activities 555 2.0%

The sectors listed cover 91.8% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

67.3%

+0.7 pp vs NC · 73rd of 100

Median gross rent

$1,017

−$211 vs NC · 36th of 100

Owner-occupied

16,927

Renter-occupied

8,218

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 68% 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 (Manufacturing, $82,621/yr) pays 3.8× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $21,899/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 16 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 17,489 58.3%
• Democratic 12,245 40.8%
• Other / third-party 273 0.9%

• Spanish 11,585 18.7%
• Arabic 188 0.3%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 163 0.3%
• German or other West Germanic 95 0.2%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 92 0.1%
• Tagalog 92 0.1%
• Vietnamese 91 0.1%
• Korean 73 0.1%

Households

25,145

Family households

17,424

69.3% of households

Married couples w/ children

3,986

22.9% of families

Single-mother families

2,050

11.8% of families

Veterans

3,590

7.2% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 14,028 22.2%
• Catholic 6,897 10.9%
• Mainline Protestant 5,500 8.7%
• Black Protestant 2,370 3.7%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,971 3.1%

Health insured

87.8%

±1.3 pp

Uninsured

12.2%

±1.3 pp

20th of 100

With a disability

16.4%

±1.3 pp

57th of 100

Bachelor's or higher

21.3%

±1.8 pp

−14.4 pp vs NC · 61st of 100

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

13.5%

90% interval 12.1%–14.9% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

12th 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

Lillington, Sanford

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

12

23.89 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

12