Moore County, North Carolina

• White (non-Hispanic) 79,384 75.7%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 8,196 7.8%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 9,355 8.9%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 1,290 1.2%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 5,636 5.4%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 398 0.4%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 99 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 518 0.5%

• Under 18 22,803 21.7%
• 18–24 6,307 6.0%
• 25–44 25,766 24.6%
• 45–64 24,769 23.6%
• 65 and over 25,231 24.1%

Median household income

$85,211

90% interval $78,556–$91,866

+$11,156 vs NC · 10th of 100

Below poverty line

10.9%

90% interval 9.0%–12.8%

−1.7 pp vs NC · 84th of 100

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.4%

−0.39 pp vs. state

County GDP

$5.7B

0.68% of state

Avg. annual pay

$56,509

Establishments

3,422

• Education & health services 13,573 31.7%
• Leisure & hospitality 7,656 17.9%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 6,760 15.8%
• Professional & business services 5,786 13.5%
• Public administration 2,071 4.8%
• Construction 2,008 4.7%
• Other services 1,491 3.5%
• Financial activities 1,168 2.7%

The sectors listed cover 94.8% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

76.4%

+9.8 pp vs NC · 30th of 100

Median gross rent

$1,254

+$26 vs NC · 13th of 100

Owner-occupied

33,621

Renter-occupied

10,392

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 65% 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 (Financial activities, $89,031/yr) pays 3.0× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $29,429/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 12 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 39,617 64.3%
• Democratic 21,436 34.8%
• Other / third-party 537 0.9%

• Spanish 5,065 5.1%
• German or other West Germanic 407 0.4%
• Vietnamese 292 0.3%
• Arabic 248 0.3%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 200 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 190 0.2%
• Tagalog 171 0.2%
• Chinese 150 0.2%
• Korean 93 0.1%

Households

44,013

Family households

29,337

66.7% of households

Married couples w/ children

7,924

27.0% of families

Single-mother families

1,630

5.6% of families

Veterans

10,291

13.1% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 20,091 20.1%
• Catholic 12,800 12.8%
• Mainline Protestant 11,136 11.2%
• Black Protestant 3,652 3.7%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,337 2.3%

Health insured

92.4%

±1 pp

Uninsured

7.6%

±1 pp

92nd of 100

With a disability

15.0%

±0.9 pp

74th of 100

Bachelor's or higher

41.0%

±1.5 pp

+5.3 pp vs NC · 10th of 100

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

9.0%

90% interval 8.1%–9.9% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

29th 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

Carthage, Raeford

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

17

20.71 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

17