Robeson County, North Carolina

• White (non-Hispanic) 27,182 23.3%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 12,723 10.9%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 27,088 23.2%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 946 0.8%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 3,750 3.2%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 44,901 38.4%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 71 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 241 0.2%

• Under 18 30,188 25.8%
• 18–24 11,803 10.1%
• 25–44 27,889 23.9%
• 45–64 28,269 24.2%
• 65 and over 18,753 16.0%

Median household income

$46,927

90% interval $43,723–$50,131

−$27,128 vs NC · 100th of 100

Below poverty line

23.7%

90% interval 21.5%–25.9%

+11.1 pp vs NC · 1st of 100

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.1%

+1.38 pp vs. state

County GDP

$5.0B

0.6% of state

Avg. annual pay

$47,214

Establishments

2,012

• Education & health services 12,312 33.0%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 7,010 18.8%
• Manufacturing 6,409 17.2%
• Leisure & hospitality 3,521 9.4%
• Public administration 2,618 7.0%
• Professional & business services 2,161 5.8%
• Financial activities 1,043 2.8%
• Information 25 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 94.2% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

65.8%

−0.8 pp vs NC · 79th of 100

Median gross rent

$805

−$423 vs NC · 73rd of 100

Owner-occupied

28,399

Renter-occupied

14,735

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 69% 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 (Financial activities, $56,726/yr) pays 2.9× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $19,558/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 19 workers, typical of an institutional-employer economy where large hospitals, plants, schools, and government agencies dominate. Expect many panelists to share an employer rather than work for themselves.

• Republican 29,647 63.5%
• Democratic 16,728 35.8%
• Other / third-party 302 0.6%

• Spanish 9,490 8.7%
• Arabic 379 0.3%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 293 0.3%
• Tagalog 143 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 73 0.1%
• Korean 46 0.0%
• Vietnamese 42 0.0%
• Chinese 40 0.0%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 18 0.0%

Households

43,134

Family households

28,073

65.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

5,018

17.9% of families

Single-mother families

4,615

16.4% of families

Veterans

5,437

6.3% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 37,629 32.3%
• Mainline Protestant 8,559 7.3%
• Black Protestant 5,120 4.4%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,763 2.4%
• Catholic 2,171 1.9%

Health insured

85.8%

±0.6 pp

Uninsured

14.2%

±0.6 pp

8th of 100

With a disability

18.4%

±0.6 pp

31st of 100

Bachelor's or higher

14.7%

±0.8 pp

−21.0 pp vs NC · 95th of 100

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

13.4%

90% interval 12.3%–14.5% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

20th 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

Lumberton

Traffic fatalities

46

53.05 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

37