Jury Pool Profile

Lincoln County, North Carolina

Republican +46 (2024)

Population: 90,359
Median household income: $78,490
Unemployment: 3.3%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 76,579 84.7%
Black or African American alone 5,271 5.8%
Asian alone 705 0.8%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 174 0.2%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 5 0.0%
Some other race alone 2,354 2.6%
Two or more races 5,271 5.8%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 7,065 7.8%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 44.3

Under 18 18,769 20.8%
18–24 6,418 7.1%
25–44 21,089 23.3%
45–64 26,915 29.8%
65 and over 17,168 19.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.3%; -0.5 pp vs. state
County GDP: $4.7B; 0.56% of state
Avg. annual pay: $55,677
Establishments: 2,604

U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Trade, transportation & utilities 6,505 23.1%
Manufacturing 4,995 17.8%
Education & health services 4,869 17.3%
Leisure & hospitality 3,166 11.3%
Professional & business services 2,635 9.4%
Construction 2,199 7.8%
Public administration 1,391 4.9%
Financial activities 1,303 4.6%
Other services 742 2.6%
Information 163 0.6%
Natural resources & mining 138 0.5%
Unclassified 4 0.0%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 78.5%
Median gross rent: $977
Owner-occupied: 27,998
Renter-occupied: 7,683

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 55,433 votes cast

Republican 40,183 72.5%
Democratic 14,842 26.8%
Other / third-party 408 0.7%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

92.4% speak only English at home

Spanish 4,823 5.6%
Slavic languages 544 0.6%
Other Asian/Pacific 202 0.2%
German 201 0.2%
Other Indo-European 192 0.2%
Vietnamese 160 0.2%
Tagalog 112 0.1%
Other 107 0.1%
Arabic 67 0.1%
French (incl. Cajun) 65 0.1%
Korean 7 0.0%
Chinese 5 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 35,681
Family households: 25,928; 72.7% of households
Married w/ children: 20,522
Single-mother households: 1,561
Veterans: 5,391; 7.5% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

51.2% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 23,012 26.5%
Mainline Protestant 12,993 15.0%
Catholic 6,426 7.4%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,057 1.2%
Black Protestant 970 1.1%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 90.8%
With a disability: 15.1%
Bachelor's or higher: 27.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 39th 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: Lincolnton, Shelby

Court reference

Traffic safety context

North Carolina statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 14; 19.56 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 14

NHTSA FARS 2023