Newport News City City, Virginia

• White (non-Hispanic) 72,296 39.2%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 19,873 10.8%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 74,745 40.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 5,995 3.3%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 9,250 5.0%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 420 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 182 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 1,455 0.8%

• Under 18 42,782 23.2%
• 18–24 21,311 11.6%
• 25–44 54,298 29.5%
• 45–64 39,909 21.7%
• 65 and over 25,916 14.1%

Median household income

$67,970

90% interval $64,260–$71,680

−$24,146 vs VA · 69th of 133

Below poverty line

12.6%

90% interval 9.9%–15.3%

+2.8 pp vs VA · 58th of 133

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.3%

+0.59 pp vs. state

County GDP

$18.8B

2.47% of state

Avg. annual pay

$70,965

Establishments

4,506

• Manufacturing 28,479 28.0%
• Education & health services 23,746 23.4%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 14,085 13.9%
• Professional & business services 11,007 10.8%
• Leisure & hospitality 8,585 8.4%
• Public administration 5,519 5.4%
• Financial activities 3,072 3.0%
• Other services 2,261 2.2%
• Construction 112 0.1%
• Information 10 0.0%

The sectors listed cover 95.3% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

48.2%

−19.1 pp vs VA · 121st of 133

Median gross rent

$1,339

−$240 vs VA · 36th of 133

Owner-occupied

36,655

Renter-occupied

39,457

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 65% of the city 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 (Professional & business services, $89,839/yr) pays 3.4× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $26,326/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 23 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.

• Democratic 48,169 63.7%
• Republican 26,385 34.9%
• Other / third-party 1,075 1.4%

• Spanish 10,335 6.0%
• Tagalog 1,012 0.6%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 858 0.5%
• Korean 801 0.5%
• German or other West Germanic 683 0.4%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 666 0.4%
• Vietnamese 511 0.3%
• Arabic 398 0.2%
• Chinese 235 0.1%

Households

76,112

Family households

43,361

57.0% of households

Married couples w/ children

10,166

23.4% of families

Single-mother families

7,474

17.2% of families

Veterans

17,365

13% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 38,811 20.8%
• Catholic 16,301 8.8%
• Mainline Protestant 11,422 6.1%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 10,533 5.7%
• Black Protestant 4,938 2.7%
• Orthodox 1,000 0.5%

Health insured

91.7%

±0.8 pp

Uninsured

8.3%

±0.8 pp

27th of 133

With a disability

15.5%

±0.9 pp

66th of 133

Bachelor's or higher

30.6%

±1.5 pp

−11.6 pp vs VA · 54th of 133

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.2%

90% interval 7.4%–9.0% · 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

4 (Active Circuit Court judges per Va. Code § 17.1-507; vintage 2026 vacourts.gov)

Court seats

Newport News

Traffic fatalities

19

13.43 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

17