Jury Pool Profile

Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

Democratic +33 (2024)

Population: 1,130,906
Median household income: $83,765
Unemployment: 3.9%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 526,435 46.5%
Black or African American alone 344,569 30.5%
Asian alone 69,579 6.2%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 4,355 0.4%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 434 0.0%
Some other race alone 88,166 7.8%
Two or more races 97,368 8.6%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 174,580 15.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 35.4

Under 18 260,863 23.1%
18–24 103,146 9.1%
25–44 360,133 31.8%
45–64 274,483 24.3%
65 and over 132,281 11.7%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.9%; +0.05 pp vs. state
County GDP: $186.1B; 22.05% of state
Avg. annual pay: $88,111
Establishments: 53,030

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Professional & business services 162,616 20.6%
Trade, transportation & utilities 160,649 20.4%
Education & health services 134,747 17.1%
Financial activities 104,860 13.3%
Leisure & hospitality 85,904 10.9%
Construction 40,961 5.2%
Manufacturing 34,613 4.4%
Information 21,478 2.7%
Public administration 20,838 2.6%
Other services 20,636 2.6%
Natural resources & mining 1,079 0.1%
Unclassified 55 0.0%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 55.5%
Median gross rent: $1,521
Owner-occupied: 252,815
Renter-occupied: 202,679

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 573,679 votes cast

Democratic 376,454 65.6%
Republican 187,770 32.7%
Other / third-party 9,455 1.6%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

78.4% speak only English at home

Spanish 136,424 12.9%
Other Indo-European 22,266 2.1%
Other Asian/Pacific 18,238 1.7%
French (incl. Cajun) 9,636 0.9%
Other 9,397 0.9%
Vietnamese 7,562 0.7%
Chinese 6,368 0.6%
Slavic languages 6,153 0.6%
Arabic 5,348 0.5%
German 3,369 0.3%
Korean 2,171 0.2%
Tagalog 2,021 0.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 455,494
Family households: 267,583; 58.7% of households
Married w/ children: 188,956
Single-mother households: 31,762
Veterans: 45,741; 5.3% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

61.6% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 277,782 24.9%
Catholic 173,181 15.5%
Mainline Protestant 123,414 11.1%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 70,319 6.3%
Black Protestant 32,917 3.0%
Orthodox 9,336 0.8%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 88.4%
With a disability: 8.3%
Bachelor's or higher: 48.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 26th 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: Charlotte

Court reference

Traffic safety context

North Carolina statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 97; 11.15 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 92

NHTSA FARS 2023