Spartanburg County, South Carolina

• White (non-Hispanic) 226,992 65.3%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 32,322 9.3%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 66,985 19.3%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 8,163 2.3%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 11,464 3.3%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 255 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 150 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 1,521 0.4%

• Under 18 81,285 23.4%
• 18–24 30,925 8.9%
• 25–44 92,532 26.6%
• 45–64 86,435 24.8%
• 65 and over 56,675 16.3%

Median household income

$70,103

90% interval $67,158–$73,048

−$2,404 vs SC · 12th of 46

Below poverty line

12.5%

90% interval 10.7%–14.3%

−0.8 pp vs SC · 37th of 46

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.6%

−0.07 pp vs. state

County GDP

$23.0B

6.44% of state

Avg. annual pay

$62,161

Establishments

8,562

• Manufacturing 38,205 24.3%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 35,184 22.3%
• Education & health services 32,877 20.9%
• Leisure & hospitality 14,379 9.1%
• Professional & business services 13,800 8.8%
• Construction 7,537 4.8%
• Financial activities 4,512 2.9%
• Other services 3,492 2.2%
• Public administration 2,934 1.9%
• Information 979 0.6%
• Natural resources & mining 340 0.2%
• Unclassified 3 0.0%

The sectors listed cover 97.9% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

73.0%

+1.1 pp vs SC · 26th of 46

Median gross rent

$1,084

−$96 vs SC · 12th of 46

Owner-occupied

96,094

Renter-occupied

35,578

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 67% 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 (Financial activities, $80,528/yr) pays 3.2× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $25,236/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 18 workers, typical of an institutional-employer economy where large hospitals, plants, schools, and government agencies dominate. Expect many panelists to share an employer rather than work for themselves.

• Republican 103,032 66.2%
• Democratic 50,710 32.6%
• Other / third-party 1,855 1.2%

• Spanish 22,873 7.0%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 9,226 2.8%
• German or other West Germanic 1,325 0.4%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 1,090 0.3%
• Chinese 1,005 0.3%
• Vietnamese 284 0.1%
• Tagalog 247 0.1%
• Arabic 90 0.0%
• Korean 25 0.0%

Households

131,672

Family households

90,383

68.6% of households

Married couples w/ children

25,216

27.9% of families

Single-mother families

9,388

10.4% of families

Veterans

17,521

6.6% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 115,421 35.2%
• Mainline Protestant 20,096 6.1%
• Catholic 14,064 4.3%
• Black Protestant 11,832 3.6%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 7,368 2.2%
• Orthodox 266 0.1%

Health insured

89.3%

±0.6 pp

Uninsured

10.7%

±0.6 pp

16th of 46

With a disability

15.1%

±0.6 pp

31st of 46

Bachelor's or higher

25.1%

±0.8 pp

−7.0 pp vs SC · 17th of 46

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

12.4%

90% interval 11.5%–13.3% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

7th 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

Gaffney, Spartanburg

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

66

24.76 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

56