Northampton County, North Carolina

• White (non-Hispanic) 6,605 39.0%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 407 2.4%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 9,216 54.4%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 5 0.0%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 599 3.5%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 42 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 57 0.3%

• Under 18 2,998 17.7%
• 18–24 1,087 6.4%
• 25–44 3,138 18.5%
• 45–64 4,695 27.7%
• 65 and over 5,013 29.6%

Median household income

$51,986

90% interval $46,995–$56,977

−$22,069 vs NC · 90th of 100

Below poverty line

22.5%

90% interval 18.1%–26.9%

+9.9 pp vs NC · 4th of 100

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.8%

+1.1 pp vs. state

County GDP

$738.9M

0.09% of state

Avg. annual pay

$51,980

Establishments

342

• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,988 42.3%
• Education & health services 1,106 23.5%
• Public administration 543 11.6%
• Manufacturing 346 7.4%
• Construction 186 4.0%
• Professional & business services 181 3.9%
• Natural resources & mining 124 2.6%
• Leisure & hospitality 97 2.1%
• Other services 94 2.0%

The sectors listed cover 99.3% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

74.6%

+8.0 pp vs NC · 40th of 100

Median gross rent

$758

−$470 vs NC · 88th of 100

Owner-occupied

5,860

Renter-occupied

1,997

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 77% 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 (Construction, $85,420/yr) pays 3.9× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $21,834/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 14 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Democratic 5,239 57.0%
• Republican 3,905 42.5%
• Other / third-party 53 0.6%

• Spanish 378 2.3%
• Arabic 47 0.3%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 26 0.2%
• German or other West Germanic 22 0.1%

Households

7,857

Family households

4,611

58.7% of households

Married couples w/ children

595

12.9% of families

Single-mother families

520

11.3% of families

Veterans

1,017

7.3% of civilians 18+

• Black Protestant 5,172 29.6%
• Evangelical Protestant 3,151 18.0%
• Mainline Protestant 1,354 7.7%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 509 2.9%
• Orthodox 30 0.2%

Health insured

91.4%

±1.4 pp

Uninsured

8.6%

±1.4 pp

82nd of 100

With a disability

23.1%

±2.2 pp

5th of 100

Bachelor's or higher

17.9%

±2 pp

−17.8 pp vs NC · 76th of 100

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

9.1%

90% interval 8.0%–10.2% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

7th 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

Halifax, Jackson, Windsor, Winton

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

7

50.24 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

7