Jury Pool Profile
Orange County, North Carolina
Democratic +51 (2024)
- Population
- 147,292
- Median household income
- $88,553
- Unemployment
- 3.4%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 103,797 70.5%
- Black or African American alone 15,595 10.6%
- Asian alone 11,605 7.9%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 677 0.5%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 39 0.0%
- Some other race alone 5,557 3.8%
- Two or more races 10,022 6.8%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 15,540 10.6%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 36.2
- Under 18 28,511 19.4%
- 18–24 25,492 17.3%
- 25–44 34,491 23.4%
- 45–64 35,697 24.2%
- 65 and over 23,101 15.7%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 3.4%
- -0.47 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $13.1B
- 1.55% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $79,229
- Establishments
- 5,494
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 41,941 53.5%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 8,732 11.1%
- Leisure & hospitality 7,650 9.8%
- Professional & business services 7,333 9.3%
- Public administration 2,856 3.6%
- Other services 2,326 3.0%
- Financial activities 2,155 2.7%
- Construction 2,065 2.6%
- Manufacturing 1,897 2.4%
- Information 1,258 1.6%
- Natural resources & mining 210 0.3%
- Unclassified 7 0.0%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 64.2%
- Median gross rent
- $1,387
- Owner-occupied
- 36,269
- Renter-occupied
- 20,187
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 87,426 votes cast
- Democratic 65,444 74.9%
- Republican 20,806 23.8%
- Other / third-party 1,176 1.3%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
83.5% speak only English at home
- Spanish 11,002 7.8%
- Chinese 3,364 2.4%
- Other Indo-European 2,610 1.8%
- Other Asian/Pacific 2,030 1.4%
- French (incl. Cajun) 694 0.5%
- Arabic 684 0.5%
- Korean 617 0.4%
- German 595 0.4%
- Other 510 0.4%
- Slavic languages 507 0.4%
- Tagalog 370 0.3%
- Vietnamese 332 0.2%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 56,456
- Family households
- 33,795
- 59.9% of households
- Married w/ children
- 27,624
- Single-mother households
- 2,593
- Veterans
- 5,771
- 4.9% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
49.9% overall adherence rate
- 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%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 93.4%
- With a disability
- 8.6%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 61.8%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- 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 countys.
Traffic safety context
North Carolina statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 17
- 14.31 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 16
NHTSA FARS 2023