Trinity is a city in Randolph County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 7,006 at the 2020 census. Trinity is part of the Greensboro-High Point Metropolitan Statistical Area of the Piedmont Triad metro region.
History
The community was named after Trinity College, which later became Duke University. Trinity College started as Brown's Schoolhouse, a private subscription school founded in 1838. The school was organized by a group of Methodists and Quakers, and was officially started by Hezekiah Leigh, who was also a founder of Randolph-Macon College. In 1841 North Carolina issued a charter for Union Institute Academy. The school took the name Trinity College in 1859, and in 1892, the college moved to Durham.
Sealy Corporation, the world's largest manufacturer of bedding products with sales of $1.2 billion in 2003, is headquartered in Trinity.
Notable people
Former baseball player Gil English died in Trinity, North Carolina. Trinity is also home to NASCAR Cup Series drivers Bobby Labonte, Brian Vickers and Kyle Petty, and current NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series driver Thad Moffitt.
The former "World's Longest Hot Wheels Track" was built at the Kyle Petty Farm in Trinity on May 9, 1999.
Geography
According to the 2020 United States census the city has a land area of and a population density of 415.1 residents per square mile.
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2020 census
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|+Trinity racial composition
!scope="col"| Race
!scope="col"| Number
!scope="col"| Percentage
|-
!scope="row"| White (non-Hispanic)
| 5,880
| 83.93%
|-
!scope="row"| Black or African American (non-Hispanic)
| 335
| 4.78%
|-
!scope="row"| Native American
| 39
| 0.56%
|-
!scope="row"| Asian
| 173
| 2.47%
|-
!scope="row"| Other/Mixed
| 249
| 3.55%
|-
!scope="row"| Hispanic or Latino
| 330
| 4.71%
|}
As of the 2020 census, Trinity had a population of 7,006. The median age was 47.2 years. 19.3% of residents were under the age of 18 and 22.2% of residents were 65 years of age or older. For every 100 females there were 96.0 males, and for every 100 females age 18 and over there were 95.4 males age 18 and over.
There were 2,856 households in Trinity, of which 27.7% had children under the age of 18 living in them. Of all households, 54.7% were married-couple households, 17.2% were households with a male householder and no spouse or partner present, and 22.9% were households with a female householder and no spouse or partner present. About 24.4% of all households were made up of individuals and 12.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.