Yadkin County, North Carolina

• White (non-Hispanic) 30,674 81.6%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4,676 12.4%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 605 1.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 23 0.1%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,295 3.4%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 54 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 247 0.7%

• Under 18 7,761 20.7%
• 18–24 2,966 7.9%
• 25–44 8,354 22.2%
• 45–64 10,616 28.3%
• 65 and over 7,877 21.0%

Median household income

$66,012

90% interval $59,349–$72,675

−$8,043 vs NC · 40th of 100

Below poverty line

14.5%

90% interval 12.2%–16.8%

+1.9 pp vs NC · 49th of 100

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.3%

−0.5 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.3B

0.16% of state

Avg. annual pay

$47,507

Establishments

781

• Manufacturing 2,541 25.5%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,960 19.7%
• Education & health services 1,488 14.9%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,015 10.2%
• Professional & business services 702 7.1%
• Public administration 561 5.6%
• Information 182 1.8%
• Other services 29 0.3%

The sectors listed cover 85.2% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

76.9%

+10.3 pp vs NC · 28th of 100

Median gross rent

$766

−$462 vs NC · 84th of 100

Owner-occupied

11,546

Renter-occupied

3,463

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 60% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Information, $76,298/yr) pays 4.2× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $17,969/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 13 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 16,439 80.8%
• Democratic 3,739 18.4%
• Other / third-party 168 0.8%

• Spanish 3,741 10.5%
• German or other West Germanic 56 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 27 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 21 0.1%

Households

15,009

Family households

10,327

68.8% of households

Married couples w/ children

2,952

28.6% of families

Single-mother families

711

6.9% of families

Veterans

1,966

6.6% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 16,823 45.2%
• Mainline Protestant 3,344 9.0%
• Catholic 2,901 7.8%
• Black Protestant 552 1.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 395 1.1%

Health insured

88.0%

±1.4 pp

Uninsured

12.0%

±1.4 pp

24th of 100

With a disability

17.3%

±1.6 pp

46th of 100

Bachelor's or higher

17.5%

±1.7 pp

−18.2 pp vs NC · 81st 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

34th 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

Jefferson, Sparta, Wilkesboro, Yadkinville

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

11

36.9 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

11