Onslow County, North Carolina

• White (non-Hispanic) 133,070 64.0%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 29,152 14.0%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 23,976 11.5%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 3,771 1.8%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 15,367 7.4%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 1,046 0.5%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 328 0.2%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 1,196 0.6%

• Under 18 51,514 24.8%
• 18–24 42,072 20.2%
• 25–44 59,682 28.7%
• 45–64 33,449 16.1%
• 65 and over 21,189 10.2%

Median household income

$71,800

90% interval $68,136–$75,464

−$2,255 vs NC · 26th of 100

Below poverty line

11.5%

90% interval 9.3%–13.7%

−1.1 pp vs NC · 81st of 100

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.0%

+0.2 pp vs. state

County GDP

$12.5B

1.48% of state

Avg. annual pay

$48,929

Establishments

4,270

• Trade, transportation & utilities 12,647 23.5%
• Education & health services 12,646 23.5%
• Leisure & hospitality 9,518 17.7%
• Professional & business services 6,605 12.3%
• Public administration 4,972 9.2%
• Construction 3,091 5.7%
• Financial activities 1,662 3.1%
• Other services 1,480 2.7%
• Information 2 0.0%

The sectors listed cover 97.7% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

63.7%

−2.9 pp vs NC · 83rd of 100

Median gross rent

$1,265

+$37 vs NC · 11th of 100

Owner-occupied

47,971

Renter-occupied

27,294

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 65% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Public administration, $69,534/yr) pays 3.1× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $22,740/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• 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 54,960 67.5%
• Democratic 25,684 31.5%
• Other / third-party 832 1.0%

• Spanish 13,925 7.3%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 943 0.5%
• German or other West Germanic 759 0.4%
• Tagalog 581 0.3%
• Chinese 334 0.2%
• Korean 332 0.2%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 288 0.2%
• Vietnamese 175 0.1%
• Arabic 147 0.1%

Households

75,265

Family households

53,022

70.4% of households

Married couples w/ children

18,155

34.2% of families

Single-mother families

4,773

9.0% of families

Veterans

25,185

21.4% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 39,535 19.3%
• Catholic 14,758 7.2%
• Mainline Protestant 8,344 4.1%
• Black Protestant 4,926 2.4%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 4,326 2.1%

Health insured

90.5%

±1 pp

Uninsured

9.5%

±1 pp

59th of 100

With a disability

17.1%

±0.9 pp

50th of 100

Bachelor's or higher

26.0%

±1.4 pp

−9.7 pp vs NC · 40th of 100

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.1%

90% interval 7.2%–9.0% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

5th 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

Clinton, Jacksonville, Kenansville, Trenton

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

19

12.15 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

19