Jury Pool Profile

Pitt County, North Carolina

Democratic +6 (2024)

Population: 172,279
Median household income: $58,851
Unemployment: 4.0%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 91,243 53.0%
Black or African American alone 60,469 35.1%
Asian alone 3,077 1.8%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 649 0.4%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 73 0.0%
Some other race alone 8,719 5.1%
Two or more races 8,049 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 13,263 7.7%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 33.6

Under 18 37,050 21.5%
18–24 28,795 16.7%
25–44 43,748 25.4%
45–64 38,074 22.1%
65 and over 24,612 14.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.0%; +0.23 pp vs. state
County GDP: $12.5B; 1.48% of state
Avg. annual pay: $59,866
Establishments: 4,498

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 30,224 37.1%
Trade, transportation & utilities 13,044 16.0%
Leisure & hospitality 9,388 11.5%
Professional & business services 8,948 11.0%
Manufacturing 6,782 8.3%
Construction 4,259 5.2%
Public administration 3,392 4.2%
Financial activities 2,370 2.9%
Other services 1,878 2.3%
Information 612 0.8%
Natural resources & mining 449 0.6%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 50.9%
Median gross rent: $971
Owner-occupied: 37,384
Renter-occupied: 36,020

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 86,924 votes cast

Democratic 45,595 52.5%
Republican 40,403 46.5%
Other / third-party 926 1.1%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

91.7% speak only English at home

Spanish 9,723 6.0%
Other Asian/Pacific 997 0.6%
Arabic 460 0.3%
Chinese 441 0.3%
German 363 0.2%
Other Indo-European 338 0.2%
Other 296 0.2%
French (incl. Cajun) 276 0.2%
Tagalog 256 0.2%
Slavic languages 231 0.1%
Korean 134 0.1%
Vietnamese 47 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 73,404
Family households: 41,384; 56.4% of households
Married w/ children: 26,075
Single-mother households: 6,632
Veterans: 9,576; 7.1% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

38.1% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 27,439 16.1%
Mainline Protestant 16,874 9.9%
Catholic 10,819 6.4%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 4,944 2.9%
Black Protestant 4,733 2.8%
Orthodox 61 0.0%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 90.0%
With a disability: 14.8%
Bachelor's or higher: 33.9%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 3rd Judicial District Superior Court
Judges: 3 (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: Greenville

Court reference

Traffic safety context

North Carolina statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 33; 24.4 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 33

NHTSA FARS 2023