Orange County, North Carolina

• White (non-Hispanic) 99,091 66.2%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 15,914 10.6%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 15,117 10.1%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 11,717 7.8%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 6,692 4.5%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 334 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 57 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 756 0.5%

• Under 18 28,235 18.9%
• 18–24 27,010 18.0%
• 25–44 34,619 23.1%
• 45–64 35,717 23.9%
• 65 and over 24,097 16.1%

Median household income

$83,872

90% interval $78,027–$89,717

+$9,817 vs NC · 13th of 100

Below poverty line

12.4%

90% interval 10.8%–14.0%

−0.2 pp vs NC · 73rd of 100

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.4%

−0.4 pp vs. state

County GDP

$13.1B

1.55% of state

Avg. annual pay

$80,088

Establishments

5,080

• Education & health services 43,370 54.5%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 8,462 10.6%
• Leisure & hospitality 7,539 9.5%
• Professional & business services 6,725 8.5%
• Public administration 2,886 3.6%
• Manufacturing 2,833 3.6%
• Financial activities 2,115 2.7%
• Other services 2,094 2.6%

The sectors listed cover 95.6% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

63.8%

−2.8 pp vs NC · 82nd of 100

Median gross rent

$1,496

+$268 vs NC · 4th of 100

Owner-occupied

36,606

Renter-occupied

20,736

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 75% 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.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $150,447/yr) pays 5.5× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $27,430/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 16 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 65,444 74.9%
• Republican 20,806 23.8%
• Other / third-party 1,176 1.3%

• Spanish 11,602 8.1%
• Chinese 3,141 2.2%
• Korean 870 0.6%
• Arabic 762 0.5%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 689 0.5%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 654 0.5%
• German or other West Germanic 571 0.4%
• Vietnamese 451 0.3%
• Tagalog 328 0.2%

Households

57,342

Family households

33,595

58.6% of households

Married couples w/ children

11,347

33.8% of families

Single-mother families

2,640

7.9% of families

Veterans

5,717

4.7% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 25,740 17.3%
• Mainline Protestant 19,509 13.1%
• Evangelical Protestant 15,507 10.4%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 7,078 4.8%
• Black Protestant 5,909 4.0%
• Orthodox 444 0.3%

Health insured

93.5%

±0.6 pp

Uninsured

6.5%

±0.6 pp

98th of 100

With a disability

9.1%

±0.5 pp

98th of 100

Bachelor's or higher

61.8%

±1.8 pp

+26.1 pp vs NC · 1st of 100

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.1%

90% interval 7.3%–8.9% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

18th 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

Hillsborough, Pittsboro

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

22

18.12 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

16