Greenwood County, South Carolina

• White (non-Hispanic) 40,086 57.7%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5,019 7.2%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 21,680 31.2%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 600 0.9%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,570 2.3%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 34 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 500 0.7%

• Under 18 15,553 22.4%
• 18–24 6,887 9.9%
• 25–44 16,615 23.9%
• 45–64 16,974 24.4%
• 65 and over 13,460 19.4%

Median household income

$57,337

90% interval $52,391–$62,283

−$15,170 vs SC · 27th of 46

Below poverty line

16.3%

90% interval 13.2%–19.4%

+3.0 pp vs SC · 26th of 46

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.3%

+0.56 pp vs. state

County GDP

$4.9B

1.37% of state

Avg. annual pay

$55,032

Establishments

1,617

• Education & health services 7,932 28.2%
• Manufacturing 5,655 20.1%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 4,778 17.0%
• Leisure & hospitality 3,127 11.1%
• Professional & business services 1,235 4.4%
• Public administration 793 2.8%
• Financial activities 785 2.8%

The sectors listed cover 86.3% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

67.0%

−4.9 pp vs SC · 38th of 46

Median gross rent

$898

−$282 vs SC · 23rd of 46

Owner-occupied

18,685

Renter-occupied

9,199

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 65% 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, $66,064/yr) pays 3.2× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $20,388/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 17 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 19,715 63.8%
• Democratic 10,766 34.9%
• Other / third-party 407 1.3%

• Spanish 2,642 4.0%
• Korean 140 0.2%
• Tagalog 127 0.2%
• Chinese 62 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 20 0.0%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 10 0.0%
• Vietnamese 6 0.0%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 3 0.0%
• Arabic 2 0.0%

Households

27,884

Family households

16,745

60.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

3,608

21.5% of families

Single-mother families

2,519

15.0% of families

Veterans

3,467

6.4% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 19,960 28.8%
• Mainline Protestant 7,158 10.3%
• Catholic 4,085 5.9%
• Black Protestant 3,378 4.9%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,366 2.0%

Health insured

92.6%

±1 pp

Uninsured

7.4%

±1 pp

44th of 46

With a disability

11.6%

±1.1 pp

44th of 46

Bachelor's or higher

24.7%

±1.8 pp

−7.4 pp vs SC · 18th of 46

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

10.7%

90% interval 9.6%–11.8% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

8th Judicial Circuit Court

Judges

3 (Resident Circuit Court judgeships authorized for this circuit by S.C. Code Ann. 14-5-610, as amended by 2026 Act No. 154. Authorized seats, not seated judges; South Carolina also elects at-large circuit judges statewide who are not counted in any circuit.)

Court seats

Abbeville, Greenwood, Laurens, Newberry

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

5

9.27 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

5