Surry County, North Carolina

• White (non-Hispanic) 57,935 81.1%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 8,952 12.5%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 2,537 3.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 475 0.7%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,268 1.8%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 34 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 38 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 186 0.3%

• Under 18 15,042 21.1%
• 18–24 5,586 7.8%
• 25–44 16,053 22.5%
• 45–64 19,997 28.0%
• 65 and over 14,747 20.6%

Median household income

$55,191

90% interval $51,563–$58,819

−$18,864 vs NC · 82nd of 100

Below poverty line

16.7%

90% interval 14.4%–19.0%

+4.1 pp vs NC · 31st of 100

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.4%

−0.39 pp vs. state

County GDP

$3.5B

0.42% of state

Avg. annual pay

$51,491

Establishments

1,950

• Trade, transportation & utilities 6,750 23.5%
• Education & health services 6,280 21.9%
• Manufacturing 4,009 14.0%
• Leisure & hospitality 2,962 10.3%
• Professional & business services 2,081 7.2%
• Public administration 1,577 5.5%
• Other services 843 2.9%
• Financial activities 556 1.9%
• Information 28 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 87.4% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

73.4%

+6.8 pp vs NC · 49th of 100

Median gross rent

$761

−$467 vs NC · 86th of 100

Owner-occupied

21,930

Renter-occupied

7,939

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 59% 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 (Professional & business services, $68,591/yr) pays 3.3× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $20,828/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 15 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Republican 28,565 76.3%
• Democratic 8,613 23.0%
• Other / third-party 246 0.7%

• Spanish 6,829 10.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 208 0.3%
• Vietnamese 126 0.2%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 46 0.1%
• Korean 39 0.1%
• Chinese 32 0.0%
• Tagalog 26 0.0%
• German or other West Germanic 17 0.0%
• Arabic 12 0.0%

Households

29,869

Family households

19,785

66.2% of households

Married couples w/ children

4,687

23.7% of families

Single-mother families

1,779

9.0% of families

Veterans

3,550

6.3% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 28,663 40.2%
• Catholic 5,065 7.1%
• Mainline Protestant 3,986 5.6%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,699 3.8%
• Black Protestant 2,220 3.1%

Health insured

89.2%

±1 pp

Uninsured

10.8%

±1 pp

37th of 100

With a disability

19.1%

±1.3 pp

20th of 100

Bachelor's or higher

20.4%

±1.3 pp

−15.3 pp vs NC · 64th of 100

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

13.0%

90% interval 11.7%–14.3% · 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

12

21.28 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

12