Jury Pool Profile

Person County, North Carolina

Republican +23.7 (2024)

County seat: Roxboro
Judicial district: 11th Judicial District Superior Court
Population (July 2025 estimate): 40,636; Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 39,542.

At a glance

Person County is a 40,636-person venue. The county population is 65% White and 26% Black (Census race-alone categories). Median household income is $60,520, $13,535 below the NC state median of $74,055; 19.3% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 5.0% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, most commonly Spanish. The largest employment sector is Trade, transportation & utilities, at 28.1% of covered employment, average pay $48,086/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.41%, below the 3.75% state average. The county carried the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking 58% to 61% of the vote across the three.

Population: 39,542
Median household income: $63,300
Unemployment: 3.4%

Who sits on a jury?

Racially mixed

50–70% White and ≥15% Black. This county: 65% / 26%.

Person County has a population of 39,542, with a median age of 44.2. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 65.0%; Black residents 25.8%. Independently, 6.3% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The median household earns $60,520; 19.3% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 14.3% live below the federal poverty line.

Race & ethnicity

White (non-Hispanic) 25,382 64.2%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2,499 6.3%
Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 10,214 25.8%
Asian (non-Hispanic) 43 0.1%
Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,273 3.2%
American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 43 0.1%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
Some other race (non-Hispanic) 88 0.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Age distribution

Median age 44.2

Under 18 8,159 20.6%
18–24 3,294 8.3%
25–44 8,553 21.6%
45–64 11,118 28.1%
65 and over 8,418 21.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Income & poverty

Median household income: $60,520; 90% interval $54,006–$67,034; −$13,535 vs NC · 57th of 100
Below poverty line: 14.3%; 90% interval 11.5%–17.1%; +1.7 pp vs NC · 52nd of 100

U.S. Census SAIPE 2024

Economic context

Trade & transportation anchored

Largest sector in BLS QCEW, even counting every withheld job toward the other sectors: Trade, transportation & utilities, about 28% of covered jobs.

Trade, transportation & utilities is the largest employment sector at 28.1% of covered employment, followed by Education & health services at 21.7%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.41%, below the North Carolina state average.

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.4%; −0.34 pp vs. state
County GDP: $2.1B; 0.25% of state
Avg. annual pay: $51,186
Establishments: 788

U.S. BLS 2026M07 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2025

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Trade, transportation & utilities 2,543 28.1%
Education & health services 1,969 21.7%
Manufacturing 1,022 11.3%
Leisure & hospitality 948 10.5%
Public administration 784 8.7%
Professional & business services 508 5.6%
Other services 384 4.2%
Financial activities 214 2.4%

The sectors listed cover 92.4% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

BLS QCEW 2025

Housing

Home ownership: 77.3%; +10.7 pp vs NC · 25th of 100
Median gross rent: $864; −$364 vs NC · 57th of 100
Owner-occupied: 12,414
Renter-occupied: 3,649

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Local economy in 3 reads

Moderately concentrated

Top three sectors employ 61% 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 (Manufacturing, $72,948/yr) pays 3.6× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $20,399/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.
Mixed business scale

Average establishment employs 12 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

BLS QCEW 2025

Largest employers

Principal employers by headcount

1 of the top 5 employers on this list (1 of the listed 9) is in trade, transportation & utilities, accounting for 226 employees on this list. So trade, transportation & utilities is the largest sector by employment here, but most of the county's five biggest named employers sit outside it. A panelist who works somewhere you recognize is probably not working where most of this county works; ask where they work before assuming either pattern fits them.

#	Employer	Sector	Employees
1	Person County Board of Education	Public education (K-12 schools)	585
2	Polywood	Furniture manufacturing	500
3	Person County Government	County government	428
4	Duke Energy Progress	Electric utility	226
5	Spuntech	Nonwoven fabric manufacturing	203
6	Person Memorial Hospital	Hospital	160
7	Louisiana-Pacific	Wood products manufacturing	150
8	Piedmont Community College	Community college	150
9	City of Roxboro	Municipal government	133
10	Eaton Corporation	Electrical equipment manufacturing	101

Source: Person County, North Carolina, Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, Schedule 16 'Principal Employers, Current Year and Nine Years Ago'. Counts are compiled annually by Person County Economic Development; the schedule prints no count definition. (2025)

Political composition

Consistently Republican

Republican candidate carried this county in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (avg winning share: 60%). 'Strongly' threshold: ≥60% avg.

Person County was carried by the Republican candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 61.4% in 2024, 60.2% in 2020, 57.6% in 2016.

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 21,993 votes cast

Republican
Democratic

Republican 13,509 61.4%
Democratic 8,295 37.7%
Other / third-party 189 0.9%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Family-majority, English-speaking

Family households are 67% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 5.0% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).

5.0% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, French, Haitian, or Cajun, German or other West Germanic. Veterans account for 6.6% of the adult civilian population (2,075 individuals).

Languages spoken at home

95.0% speak only English at home

Spanish 1,668 4.5%
French, Haitian, or Cajun 38 0.1%
German or other West Germanic 24 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Household composition

Households: 16,063
Family households: 10,806; 67.3% of households
Married couples w/ children: 2,473; 22.9% of families
Single-mother families: 1,365; 12.6% of families
Veterans: 2,075; 6.6% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Religious composition

47.0% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 10,479 26.8%
Mainline Protestant 3,615 9.2%
Black Protestant 1,978 5.1%
Catholic 1,644 4.2%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 655 1.7%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 90.6%; ±1.9 pp
Uninsured: 9.4%; ±1.9 pp; 62nd of 100
With a disability: 18.9%; ±2.2 pp; 25th of 100
Bachelor's or higher: 19.3%; ±2.3 pp; −16.4 pp vs NC · 68th of 100
Uninsured, under 65 (2024): 11.1%; 90% interval 9.9%–12.3% · Census SAHIE

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

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 11th 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: Henderson, Louisburg, Oxford, Roxboro, Warrenton

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Person totals, 2024 — the per-100k rate is based on 6 recorded deaths, too few to be statistically reliable

Traffic fatalities: 6; 19.12 per 100k adults (18+)
Fatal crashes: 6

NHTSA FARS 2024