Jury Pool Profile
Rutherford County, North Carolina
Republican +48 (2024)
- Population
- 64,850
- Median household income
- $49,771
- Unemployment
- 4.8%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 53,801 83.0%
- Black or African American alone 5,240 8.1%
- Asian alone 342 0.5%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 153 0.2%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 31 0.0%
- Some other race alone 1,656 2.6%
- Two or more races 3,627 5.6%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3,533 5.4%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 45.3
- Under 18 13,138 20.3%
- 18–24 4,647 7.2%
- 25–44 14,466 22.3%
- 45–64 18,265 28.2%
- 65 and over 14,334 22.1%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 4.8%
- +0.97 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $2.5B
- 0.29% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $48,125
- Establishments
- 1,498
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 4,020 22.3%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 3,563 19.8%
- Manufacturing 2,560 14.2%
- Leisure & hospitality 2,063 11.5%
- Public administration 1,428 7.9%
- Professional & business services 1,410 7.8%
- Construction 1,362 7.6%
- Information 617 3.4%
- Financial activities 455 2.5%
- Other services 435 2.4%
- Natural resources & mining 82 0.5%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 74.1%
- Median gross rent
- $748
- Owner-occupied
- 19,699
- Renter-occupied
- 6,890
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 34,600 votes cast
- Republican 25,456 73.6%
- Democratic 8,914 25.8%
- Other / third-party 230 0.7%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
94.1% speak only English at home
- Spanish 2,772 4.5%
- German 149 0.2%
- Other Indo-European 136 0.2%
- Vietnamese 127 0.2%
- Other Asian/Pacific 114 0.2%
- Slavic languages 86 0.1%
- Arabic 86 0.1%
- Korean 46 0.1%
- Tagalog 30 0.0%
- Chinese 27 0.0%
- French (incl. Cajun) 25 0.0%
- Other 17 0.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 26,589
- Family households
- 17,002
- 63.9% of households
- Married w/ children
- 12,213
- Single-mother households
- 1,747
- Veterans
- 4,122
- 8% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
69.8% overall adherence rate
- Evangelical Protestant 34,047 52.8%
- Mainline Protestant 5,031 7.8%
- Black Protestant 2,488 3.9%
- Catholic 2,429 3.8%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 978 1.5%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 88.2%
- With a disability
- 21.4%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 20.7%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 41st Judicial District Superior Court
- Judges
- 1 (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
- Marion, Rutherfordton
This judicial district spans multiple countys.
Traffic safety context
North Carolina statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 11
- 21.27 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 10
NHTSA FARS 2023