Union County, North Carolina

• White (non-Hispanic) 167,601 66.8%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 33,636 13.4%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 27,313 10.9%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 11,323 4.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 9,619 3.8%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 282 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 54 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 1,130 0.5%

• Under 18 64,232 25.6%
• 18–24 23,798 9.5%
• 25–44 58,562 23.3%
• 45–64 70,394 28.1%
• 65 and over 33,972 13.5%

Median household income

$107,681

90% interval $100,049–$115,313

+$33,626 vs NC · 1st of 100

Below poverty line

7.6%

90% interval 6.3%–8.9%

−5.0 pp vs NC · 99th of 100

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.3%

−0.41 pp vs. state

County GDP

$13.1B

1.55% of state

Avg. annual pay

$65,474

Establishments

7,938

• Trade, transportation & utilities 14,975 19.2%
• Education & health services 14,558 18.6%
• Manufacturing 12,236 15.7%
• Professional & business services 8,653 11.1%
• Leisure & hospitality 7,446 9.5%
• Public administration 3,294 4.2%
• Other services 2,681 3.4%
• Financial activities 2,395 3.1%

The sectors listed cover 84.7% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

81.6%

+15.0 pp vs NC · 9th of 100

Median gross rent

$1,496

+$268 vs NC · 5th of 100

Owner-occupied

68,778

Renter-occupied

15,459

• Diversified

  Top three sectors employ 53% of the workforce, a relatively diversified local economy. Expect mixed employer backgrounds on the panel rather than concentration in any one institution or industry.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $105,909/yr) pays 4.5× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $23,290/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Small-business scale

  Average establishment employs only 9.8 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

• Republican 86,271 62.1%
• Democratic 51,168 36.8%
• Other / third-party 1,436 1.0%

• Spanish 24,412 10.3%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 2,960 1.2%
• Chinese 1,240 0.5%
• German or other West Germanic 625 0.3%
• Tagalog 488 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 484 0.2%
• Korean 322 0.1%
• Vietnamese 321 0.1%
• Arabic 303 0.1%

Households

84,237

Family households

66,692

79.2% of households

Married couples w/ children

25,901

38.8% of families

Single-mother families

4,005

6.0% of families

Veterans

11,834

6.3% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 54,730 23.0%
• Catholic 39,161 16.4%
• Mainline Protestant 15,090 6.3%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 8,367 3.5%
• Black Protestant 7,940 3.3%

Health insured

92.3%

±0.6 pp

Uninsured

7.7%

±0.6 pp

91st of 100

With a disability

9.6%

±0.5 pp

97th of 100

Bachelor's or higher

40.5%

±1.3 pp

+4.8 pp vs NC · 11th of 100

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

9.0%

90% interval 8.3%–9.7% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

30th 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

Monroe

Traffic fatalities

24

12.85 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

24