Martin County, North Carolina

• White (non-Hispanic) 11,071 51.2%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 963 4.4%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 8,673 40.1%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 120 0.6%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 738 3.4%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 16 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 63 0.3%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%

• Under 18 4,399 20.3%
• 18–24 1,433 6.6%
• 25–44 4,711 21.8%
• 45–64 5,569 25.7%
• 65 and over 5,532 25.6%

Median household income

$52,295

90% interval $46,920–$57,670

−$21,760 vs NC · 88th of 100

Below poverty line

19.7%

90% interval 15.5%–23.9%

+7.1 pp vs NC · 17th of 100

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.0%

+0.21 pp vs. state

County GDP

$808.0M

0.1% of state

Avg. annual pay

$40,822

Establishments

474

• Education & health services 1,558 25.4%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,298 21.2%
• Leisure & hospitality 746 12.2%
• Manufacturing 740 12.1%
• Public administration 656 10.7%
• Professional & business services 272 4.4%
• Natural resources & mining 258 4.2%
• Construction 251 4.1%
• Financial activities 162 2.6%
• Information 12 0.2%

The sectors listed cover 97.2% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

66.8%

+0.2 pp vs NC · 75th of 100

Median gross rent

$758

−$470 vs NC · 87th of 100

Owner-occupied

6,346

Renter-occupied

3,156

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 59% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $72,102/yr) pays 4.5× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $15,968/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• 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.

• Republican 6,601 54.9%
• Democratic 5,360 44.6%
• Other / third-party 67 0.6%

• Spanish 684 3.3%
• Chinese 67 0.3%
• German or other West Germanic 13 0.1%
• Tagalog 6 0.0%
• Korean 1 0.0%

Households

9,502

Family households

6,039

63.6% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,132

18.7% of families

Single-mother families

702

11.6% of families

Veterans

1,023

5.9% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 5,942 27.0%
• Black Protestant 888 4.0%
• Mainline Protestant 782 3.5%
• Catholic 350 1.6%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 282 1.3%

Health insured

92.9%

±1.2 pp

Uninsured

7.1%

±1.2 pp

97th of 100

With a disability

19.7%

±2.2 pp

17th of 100

Bachelor's or higher

16.7%

±2.2 pp

−19.0 pp vs NC · 86th of 100

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

10.9%

90% interval 9.6%–12.2% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

2nd 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

Columbia, Plymouth, Swan Quarter, Washington, Williamston

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

5

28.99 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

4