Scotland County, North Carolina

• White (non-Hispanic) 13,466 40.1%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,349 4.0%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 12,424 37.0%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 424 1.3%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,745 5.2%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 3,849 11.5%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 333 1.0%

• Under 18 7,804 23.2%
• 18–24 3,125 9.3%
• 25–44 8,139 24.2%
• 45–64 8,344 24.8%
• 65 and over 6,178 18.4%

Median household income

$55,335

90% interval $51,164–$59,506

−$18,720 vs NC · 80th of 100

Below poverty line

22.9%

90% interval 18.9%–26.9%

+10.3 pp vs NC · 3rd of 100

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.9%

+1.16 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.6B

0.18% of state

Avg. annual pay

$52,025

Establishments

678

• Education & health services 3,732 29.7%
• Manufacturing 2,512 20.0%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 2,026 16.1%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,167 9.3%
• Public administration 1,145 9.1%
• Professional & business services 1,016 8.1%
• Construction 359 2.9%
• Financial activities 284 2.3%
• Other services 158 1.3%
• Natural resources & mining 113 0.9%
• Information 40 0.3%

Home ownership

61.8%

−4.8 pp vs NC · 88th of 100

Median gross rent

$778

−$450 vs NC · 79th of 100

Owner-occupied

7,773

Renter-occupied

4,807

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 66% 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 (Manufacturing, $65,230/yr) pays 3.3× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $19,964/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 7,767 53.2%
• Democratic 6,754 46.2%
• Other / third-party 92 0.6%

• Spanish 807 2.6%
• Chinese 153 0.5%
• Arabic 129 0.4%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 127 0.4%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 49 0.2%
• Tagalog 45 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 43 0.1%
• Vietnamese 8 0.0%

Households

12,580

Family households

8,074

64.2% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,549

19.2% of families

Single-mother families

1,359

16.8% of families

Veterans

1,796

7% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 4,653 13.6%
• Black Protestant 3,660 10.7%
• Mainline Protestant 3,221 9.4%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 607 1.8%
• Catholic 446 1.3%

Health insured

90.1%

±1.2 pp

Uninsured

9.9%

±1.2 pp

51st of 100

With a disability

18.4%

±1.4 pp

32nd of 100

Bachelor's or higher

16.6%

±1.6 pp

−19.1 pp vs NC · 88th of 100

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

9.7%

90% interval 8.6%–10.8% · 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

8

31.02 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

8