Nash County, North Carolina

• White (non-Hispanic) 44,504 46.3%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 7,925 8.2%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 38,539 40.1%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 982 1.0%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 3,243 3.4%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 489 0.5%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 22 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 512 0.5%

• Under 18 21,210 22.0%
• 18–24 7,682 8.0%
• 25–44 22,956 23.9%
• 45–64 25,745 26.8%
• 65 and over 18,623 19.4%

Median household income

$66,531

90% interval $61,946–$71,116

−$7,524 vs NC · 38th of 100

Below poverty line

12.5%

90% interval 9.8%–15.2%

−0.1 pp vs NC · 69th of 100

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.8%

+1 pp vs. state

County GDP

$7.2B

0.85% of state

Avg. annual pay

$55,481

Establishments

2,352

• Education & health services 8,740 21.7%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 8,188 20.4%
• Manufacturing 7,600 18.9%
• Leisure & hospitality 4,098 10.2%
• Professional & business services 3,308 8.2%
• Construction 2,593 6.4%
• Public administration 2,183 5.4%
• Financial activities 1,346 3.3%
• Other services 1,232 3.1%
• Natural resources & mining 775 1.9%
• Information 168 0.4%

Home ownership

63.6%

−3.0 pp vs NC · 85th of 100

Median gross rent

$953

−$275 vs NC · 45th of 100

Owner-occupied

24,658

Renter-occupied

14,139

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 61% 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 (Information, $89,239/yr) pays 4.2× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $21,109/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 17 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 26,431 50.5%
• Democratic 25,508 48.7%
• Other / third-party 425 0.8%

• Spanish 6,884 7.6%
• Arabic 256 0.3%
• Tagalog 240 0.3%
• German or other West Germanic 105 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 64 0.1%
• Chinese 62 0.1%
• Vietnamese 26 0.0%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 21 0.0%
• Korean 16 0.0%

Households

38,797

Family households

25,206

65.0% of households

Married couples w/ children

4,939

19.6% of families

Single-mother families

3,397

13.5% of families

Veterans

5,784

7.7% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 36,569 38.5%
• Mainline Protestant 8,381 8.8%
• Black Protestant 2,969 3.1%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,679 1.8%
• Catholic 917 1.0%

Health insured

88.6%

±1.1 pp

Uninsured

11.4%

±1.1 pp

29th of 100

With a disability

14.4%

±1.1 pp

81st of 100

Bachelor's or higher

22.1%

±1.6 pp

−13.6 pp vs NC · 53rd of 100

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

11.2%

90% interval 10.1%–12.3% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

8th 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

Nashville, Tarboro, Wilson

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

12

16 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

10