Jury Pool Profile
Wayne County, North Carolina
Republican +16 (2024)
- Population
- 117,606
- Median household income
- $58,082
- Unemployment
- 3.8%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 64,683 55.0%
- Black or African American alone 35,979 30.6%
- Asian alone 1,367 1.2%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 180 0.2%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 101 0.1%
- Some other race alone 3,093 2.6%
- Two or more races 12,203 10.4%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 15,495 13.2%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 37.4
- Under 18 27,905 23.7%
- 18–24 11,287 9.6%
- 25–44 29,660 25.2%
- 45–64 29,063 24.7%
- 65 and over 19,691 16.7%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 3.8%
- +0 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $6.8B
- 0.8% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $49,087
- Establishments
- 2,557
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 10,503 25.1%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 9,424 22.5%
- Manufacturing 5,722 13.7%
- Leisure & hospitality 4,697 11.2%
- Public administration 2,927 7.0%
- Professional & business services 2,753 6.6%
- Construction 2,234 5.3%
- Financial activities 1,542 3.7%
- Natural resources & mining 1,004 2.4%
- Other services 983 2.3%
- Information 92 0.2%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 61.5%
- Median gross rent
- $932
- Owner-occupied
- 28,846
- Renter-occupied
- 18,042
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 54,667 votes cast
- Republican 31,580 57.8%
- Democratic 22,618 41.4%
- Other / third-party 469 0.9%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
86.2% speak only English at home
- Spanish 12,579 11.4%
- Other Indo-European 728 0.7%
- French (incl. Cajun) 437 0.4%
- German 326 0.3%
- Other Asian/Pacific 294 0.3%
- Korean 250 0.2%
- Tagalog 203 0.2%
- Arabic 160 0.1%
- Chinese 105 0.1%
- Other 75 0.1%
- Slavic languages 26 0.0%
- Vietnamese 21 0.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 46,888
- Family households
- 30,863
- 65.8% of households
- Married w/ children
- 20,857
- Single-mother households
- 4,071
- Veterans
- 10,292
- 12% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
48.5% overall adherence rate
- Evangelical Protestant 29,639 25.3%
- Mainline Protestant 9,050 7.7%
- Catholic 8,193 7.0%
- Black Protestant 6,037 5.1%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 3,982 3.4%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 87.9%
- With a disability
- 15.8%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 21.3%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 9th 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
- Goldsboro, Kinston, Snow Hill
This judicial district spans multiple countys.
Traffic safety context
North Carolina statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 23
- 25.64 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 19
NHTSA FARS 2023