Richmond County, North Carolina

• White (non-Hispanic) 23,145 54.7%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3,297 7.8%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 13,227 31.2%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 418 1.0%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,181 2.8%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 835 2.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 241 0.6%

• Under 18 9,943 23.5%
• 18–24 3,520 8.3%
• 25–44 10,323 24.4%
• 45–64 10,888 25.7%
• 65 and over 7,670 18.1%

Median household income

$50,515

90% interval $44,988–$56,042

−$23,540 vs NC · 93rd of 100

Below poverty line

21.5%

90% interval 17.3%–25.7%

+8.9 pp vs NC · 5th of 100

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.0%

+0.29 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.6B

0.31% of state

Avg. annual pay

$47,857

Establishments

868

• Education & health services 3,506 25.8%
• Manufacturing 3,187 23.5%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 2,386 17.6%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,215 9.0%
• Public administration 1,156 8.5%
• Professional & business services 824 6.1%
• Construction 429 3.2%
• Natural resources & mining 313 2.3%
• Financial activities 299 2.2%
• Information 9 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 98.2% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

65.9%

−0.7 pp vs NC · 78th of 100

Median gross rent

$724

−$504 vs NC · 95th of 100

Owner-occupied

11,228

Renter-occupied

5,798

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 67% 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.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Natural resources & mining, $66,178/yr) pays 3.7× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $17,799/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• 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.

• Republican 11,931 60.1%
• Democratic 7,787 39.2%
• Other / third-party 130 0.7%

• Spanish 2,673 6.7%
• Korean 83 0.2%
• Vietnamese 54 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 52 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 33 0.1%
• Chinese 28 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 26 0.1%

Households

17,026

Family households

10,897

64.0% of households

Married couples w/ children

2,295

21.1% of families

Single-mother families

2,023

18.6% of families

Veterans

1,838

5.7% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 18,121 42.2%
• Mainline Protestant 5,587 13.0%
• Black Protestant 3,159 7.4%
• Catholic 2,003 4.7%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 612 1.4%

Health insured

88.4%

±1.6 pp

Uninsured

11.6%

±1.6 pp

25th of 100

With a disability

17.1%

±1.5 pp

52nd of 100

Bachelor's or higher

16.0%

±2.1 pp

−19.7 pp vs NC · 92nd of 100

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

10.6%

90% interval 9.4%–11.8% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

21st 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

Laurinburg, Rockingham, Wadesboro

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

14

43.21 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

13