Jury Pool Profile

Stokes County, North Carolina

Republican +60 (2024)

Population: 44,889
Median household income: $60,039
Unemployment: 3.7%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 40,992 91.3%
Black or African American alone 1,543 3.4%
Asian alone 16 0.0%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 88 0.2%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
Some other race alone 507 1.1%
Two or more races 1,743 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,621 3.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 47.6

Under 18 8,367 18.6%
18–24 3,287 7.3%
25–44 9,331 20.8%
45–64 13,805 30.8%
65 and over 10,099 22.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.7%; -0.14 pp vs. state
County GDP: $1.8B; 0.21% of state
Avg. annual pay: $41,766
Establishments: 844

U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 1,969 25.5%
Trade, transportation & utilities 1,504 19.5%
Leisure & hospitality 1,261 16.4%
Public administration 697 9.0%
Manufacturing 680 8.8%
Construction 621 8.1%
Professional & business services 500 6.5%
Other services 229 3.0%
Financial activities 162 2.1%
Natural resources & mining 53 0.7%
Information 32 0.4%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 78.4%
Median gross rent: $766
Owner-occupied: 15,187
Renter-occupied: 4,187

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 27,127 votes cast

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

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

96.6% speak only English at home

Spanish 850 2.0%
Tagalog 201 0.5%
Other Asian/Pacific 107 0.2%
Slavic languages 101 0.2%
French (incl. Cajun) 56 0.1%
German 48 0.1%
Other Indo-European 46 0.1%
Arabic 26 0.1%
Other 11 0.0%
Vietnamese 8 0.0%
Korean 1 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 19,374
Family households: 12,315; 63.6% of households
Married w/ children: 9,544
Single-mother households: 1,248
Veterans: 2,802; 7.7% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

58.3% overall adherence rate

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%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 91.4%
With a disability: 19.4%
Bachelor's or higher: 18.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 23rd 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: Danbury, Dobson

Court reference

Traffic safety context

North Carolina statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 5; 13.69 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 5

NHTSA FARS 2023