Jury Pool Profile

Pender County, North Carolina

Republican +35 (2024)

Population: 63,475
Median household income: $76,838
Unemployment: 3.5%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 48,080 75.7%
Black or African American alone 7,847 12.4%
Asian alone 437 0.7%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 209 0.3%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 41 0.1%
Some other race alone 3,429 5.4%
Two or more races 3,432 5.4%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5,402 8.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 41.8

Under 18 14,269 22.5%
18–24 4,577 7.2%
25–44 15,542 24.5%
45–64 17,638 27.8%
65 and over 11,449 18.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.5%; -0.29 pp vs. state
County GDP: $2.5B; 0.3% of state
Avg. annual pay: $47,159
Establishments: 1,964

U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Trade, transportation & utilities 3,158 21.5%
Education & health services 3,079 20.9%
Leisure & hospitality 2,369 16.1%
Construction 1,274 8.7%
Professional & business services 1,221 8.3%
Public administration 1,122 7.6%
Manufacturing 687 4.7%
Financial activities 669 4.5%
Other services 537 3.7%
Natural resources & mining 505 3.4%
Information 82 0.6%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 81.8%
Median gross rent: $1,072
Owner-occupied: 19,761
Renter-occupied: 4,391

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 38,837 votes cast

Republican 26,042 67.1%
Democratic 12,460 32.1%
Other / third-party 335 0.9%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

92.5% speak only English at home

Spanish 3,872 6.5%
Other Indo-European 163 0.3%
Slavic languages 129 0.2%
Other Asian/Pacific 117 0.2%
German 106 0.2%
Tagalog 45 0.1%
French (incl. Cajun) 40 0.1%
Chinese 19 0.0%
Arabic 17 0.0%
Korean 7 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 24,152
Family households: 16,231; 67.2% of households
Married w/ children: 12,636
Single-mother households: 1,173
Veterans: 4,715; 9.7% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

39.9% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 9,866 16.4%
Catholic 5,612 9.3%
Mainline Protestant 3,651 6.1%
Black Protestant 2,995 5.0%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,921 3.2%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 90.3%
With a disability: 15.3%
Bachelor's or higher: 29.8%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 6th Judicial District Superior Court
Judges: 4 (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: Burgaw, Wilmington

Court reference

Traffic safety context

North Carolina statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 15; 30.48 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 14

NHTSA FARS 2023