Stokes County, North Carolina

• White (non-Hispanic) 40,160 89.0%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,730 3.8%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 1,650 3.7%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 33 0.1%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,309 2.9%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 82 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 175 0.4%

• Under 18 8,398 18.6%
• 18–24 3,200 7.1%
• 25–44 9,449 20.9%
• 45–64 13,651 30.2%
• 65 and over 10,441 23.1%

Median household income

$67,343

90% interval $60,215–$74,471

−$6,712 vs NC · 36th of 100

Below poverty line

11.8%

90% interval 9.3%–14.3%

−0.8 pp vs NC · 78th of 100

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.6%

−0.14 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.8B

0.21% of state

Avg. annual pay

$42,158

Establishments

842

• Education & health services 1,942 25.7%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,559 20.6%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,239 16.4%
• Manufacturing 705 9.3%
• Public administration 698 9.2%
• Professional & business services 487 6.4%
• Construction 427 5.7%
• Other services 225 3.0%
• Financial activities 154 2.0%
• Natural resources & mining 73 1.0%
• Information 44 0.6%

Home ownership

79.2%

+12.6 pp vs NC · 18th of 100

Median gross rent

$775

−$453 vs NC · 80th of 100

Owner-occupied

15,478

Renter-occupied

4,068

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 63% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Manufacturing, $58,726/yr) pays 2.7× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $21,612/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Small-business scale

  Average establishment employs only 9.0 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

• Republican 21,548 79.4%
• Democratic 5,380 19.8%
• Other / third-party 199 0.7%

• Spanish 835 1.9%
• Tagalog 107 0.2%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 95 0.2%
• German or other West Germanic 55 0.1%
• Arabic 28 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 20 0.0%
• Korean 19 0.0%
• Vietnamese 7 0.0%

Households

19,546

Family households

12,159

62.2% of households

Married couples w/ children

2,874

23.6% of families

Single-mother families

1,001

8.2% of families

Veterans

2,674

7.3% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 19,832 44.5%
• Mainline Protestant 3,660 8.2%
• Catholic 1,276 2.9%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 620 1.4%
• Black Protestant 540 1.2%
• Orthodox 8 0.0%

Health insured

92.4%

±1.3 pp

Uninsured

7.6%

±1.3 pp

93rd of 100

With a disability

20.1%

±1.9 pp

14th of 100

Bachelor's or higher

18.2%

±2 pp

−17.5 pp vs NC · 73rd of 100

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.9%

90% interval 7.9%–9.9% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

23rd 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

Danbury, Dobson

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

6

16.33 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

6