Jury Pool Profile

Union County, North Carolina

Republican +25 (2024)

Population: 244,975
Median household income: $99,243
Unemployment: 3.3%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 174,145 71.1%
Black or African American alone 27,397 11.2%
Asian alone 10,002 4.1%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 1,086 0.4%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 58 0.0%
Some other race alone 14,837 6.1%
Two or more races 17,450 7.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 31,683 12.9%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 39.1

Under 18 63,709 26.0%
18–24 22,985 9.4%
25–44 56,716 23.2%
45–64 69,164 28.2%
65 and over 32,401 13.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.3%; -0.5 pp vs. state
County GDP: $13.1B; 1.55% of state
Avg. annual pay: $61,500
Establishments: 7,848

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Trade, transportation & utilities 14,390 19.4%
Education & health services 12,876 17.3%
Manufacturing 12,424 16.7%
Construction 10,057 13.5%
Professional & business services 8,174 11.0%
Leisure & hospitality 7,239 9.7%
Public administration 3,272 4.4%
Other services 2,422 3.3%
Financial activities 2,034 2.7%
Natural resources & mining 746 1.0%
Information 655 0.9%
Unclassified 10 0.0%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 81.8%
Median gross rent: $1,390
Owner-occupied: 67,303
Renter-occupied: 14,928

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 138,875 votes cast

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

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

83.1% speak only English at home

Spanish 23,669 10.2%
Other Indo-European 5,463 2.4%
Slavic languages 2,883 1.2%
Other Asian/Pacific 2,583 1.1%
Other 1,120 0.5%
Chinese 1,021 0.4%
French (incl. Cajun) 632 0.3%
German 592 0.3%
Tagalog 343 0.1%
Arabic 287 0.1%
Vietnamese 261 0.1%
Korean 259 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 82,231
Family households: 65,269; 79.4% of households
Married w/ children: 54,055
Single-mother households: 3,862
Veterans: 11,567; 6.4% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

52.6% overall adherence rate

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%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 92.1%
With a disability: 9.2%
Bachelor's or higher: 39.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 30th Judicial District Superior Court
Judges: 3 (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: Albemarle, Monroe

Court reference

Traffic safety context

North Carolina statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 21; 11.59 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 20

NHTSA FARS 2023