Vance County, North Carolina

• White (non-Hispanic) 15,752 37.2%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4,006 9.5%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 20,032 47.3%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 288 0.7%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,793 4.2%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 451 1.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%

• Under 18 10,160 24.0%
• 18–24 3,630 8.6%
• 25–44 9,774 23.1%
• 45–64 10,595 25.0%
• 65 and over 8,163 19.3%

Median household income

$54,441

90% interval $49,290–$59,592

−$19,614 vs NC · 84th of 100

Below poverty line

18.1%

90% interval 14.2%–22.0%

+5.5 pp vs NC · 24th of 100

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.5%

+0.76 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.7B

0.2% of state

Avg. annual pay

$48,239

Establishments

926

• Trade, transportation & utilities 4,376 30.9%
• Education & health services 3,844 27.1%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,566 11.0%
• Manufacturing 1,443 10.2%
• Public administration 908 6.4%
• Professional & business services 891 6.3%
• Financial activities 358 2.5%
• Information 19 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 94.6% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

60.1%

−6.5 pp vs NC · 93rd of 100

Median gross rent

$883

−$345 vs NC · 52nd of 100

Owner-occupied

9,712

Renter-occupied

6,435

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 69% of the county workforce. Most panelists likely share employer relationships within these sectors, surface those connections early in voir dire before any institutional-defendant or sector-specific framing.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Manufacturing, $66,910/yr) pays 3.7× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $18,227/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.

• Democratic 11,292 56.3%
• Republican 8,614 42.9%
• Other / third-party 153 0.8%

• Spanish 2,646 6.7%
• Arabic 210 0.5%
• Vietnamese 72 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 49 0.1%
• Tagalog 33 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 6 0.0%
• Chinese 4 0.0%

Households

16,147

Family households

10,147

62.8% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,522

15.0% of families

Single-mother families

1,642

16.2% of families

Veterans

2,169

6.7% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 14,348 33.7%
• Mainline Protestant 4,262 10.0%
• Black Protestant 2,746 6.4%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 945 2.2%
• Catholic 496 1.2%

Health insured

86.8%

±1.8 pp

Uninsured

13.2%

±1.8 pp

13th of 100

With a disability

18.7%

±1.9 pp

28th of 100

Bachelor's or higher

17.2%

±2 pp

−18.5 pp vs NC · 82nd of 100

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

11.7%

90% interval 10.4%–13.0% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

11th 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

Henderson, Louisburg, Oxford, Roxboro, Warrenton

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

4

12.44 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

4