Jury Pool Profile

Coffee County, Alabama

Republican +57.9 (2024)

County seat: Elba and Enterprise
Judicial district: 12th Judicial Circuit Court
Population (July 2025 estimate): 56,953; Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 54,920.

At a glance

Coffee County is a 56,953-person venue. The county population is 71% White and 16% Black (Census race-alone categories). Median household income is $71,584, $4,880 above the AL state median of $66,704; 22.5% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 8.0% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, most commonly Spanish and German or other West Germanic. The largest employment sector is Education & health services, at 22.8% of covered employment, average pay $51,330/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 2.83%, below the 2.86% state average. The county carried the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking 76% to 79% of the vote across the three.

Population: 54,920
Median household income: $68,353
Unemployment: 2.8%

Who sits on a jury?

Predominantly White

≥70% White (race-alone) and <20% Black. This county: 71% / 16%.

Coffee County has a population of 54,920, with a median age of 39.0. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 71.1%; Black residents 16.2%. Independently, 9.8% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The median household earns $71,584; 22.5% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 12.9% live below the federal poverty line.

Race & ethnicity

White (non-Hispanic) 37,067 67.5%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5,396 9.8%
Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 8,549 15.6%
Asian (non-Hispanic) 626 1.1%
Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 2,896 5.3%
American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 248 0.5%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 25 0.0%
Some other race (non-Hispanic) 113 0.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Age distribution

Median age 39

Under 18 13,250 24.1%
18–24 4,364 7.9%
25–44 14,162 25.8%
45–64 13,698 24.9%
65 and over 9,446 17.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Income & poverty

Median household income: $71,584; 90% interval $65,981–$77,187; +$4,880 vs AL · 8th of 67
Below poverty line: 12.9%; 90% interval 10.5%–15.3%; −2.3 pp vs AL · 59th of 67

U.S. Census SAIPE 2024

Economic context

Healthcare & education anchored

BLS QCEW 'Education & health services' is ≥20% of total covered employment. This county: 22.8%.

Education & health services is the largest employment sector at 22.8% of covered employment, followed by Manufacturing at 21.6%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 2.83%, below the Alabama state average.

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 2.8%; −0.03 pp vs. state
County GDP: $2.3B; 0.71% of state
Avg. annual pay: $48,290
Establishments: 1,436

U.S. BLS 2026M07 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2025

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 4,043 22.8%
Manufacturing 3,822 21.6%
Trade, transportation & utilities 3,714 21.0%
Leisure & hospitality 1,918 10.8%
Professional & business services 1,284 7.3%
Public administration 1,108 6.3%
Financial activities 529 3.0%
Construction 435 2.5%
Natural resources & mining 349 2.0%

The sectors listed cover 97.2% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

BLS QCEW 2025

Housing

Home ownership: 72.3%; +2.1 pp vs AL · 41st of 67
Median gross rent: $1,018; +$11 vs AL · 12th of 67
Owner-occupied: 15,163
Renter-occupied: 5,821

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Local economy in 3 reads

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 (Financial activities, $61,036/yr) pays 2.9× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $21,265/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.
Mixed business scale

Average establishment employs 12 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

BLS QCEW 2025

Political composition

Consistently strongly Republican

Republican candidate carried this county in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (avg winning share: 77%). 'Strongly' threshold: ≥60% avg.

Coffee County was carried by the Republican candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 78.6% in 2024, 75.9% in 2020, 77.1% in 2016.

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 22,270 votes cast

Republican
Democratic

Republican 17,495 78.6%
Democratic 4,601 20.7%
Other / third-party 174 0.8%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Family-majority, English-speaking

Family households are 67% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 8.0% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).

8.0% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, German or other West Germanic, Korean. Veterans account for 15.3% of the adult civilian population (6,136 individuals).

Languages spoken at home

92.0% speak only English at home

Spanish 2,883 5.6%
German or other West Germanic 528 1.0%
Korean 124 0.2%
Vietnamese 119 0.2%
Chinese 108 0.2%
Arabic 47 0.1%
French, Haitian, or Cajun 30 0.1%
Tagalog 29 0.1%
Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 26 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Household composition

Households: 20,984
Family households: 14,055; 67.0% of households
Married couples w/ children: 3,756; 26.7% of families
Single-mother families: 1,432; 10.2% of families
Veterans: 6,136; 15.3% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Religious composition

69.3% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 29,288 54.8%
Mainline Protestant 2,661 5.0%
Catholic 2,423 4.5%
Black Protestant 1,908 3.6%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 792 1.5%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 89.6%; ±1.2 pp
Uninsured: 10.4%; ±1.2 pp; 16th of 67
With a disability: 17.5%; ±1.1 pp; 44th of 67
Bachelor's or higher: 22.5%; ±1.5 pp; −5.9 pp vs AL · 16th of 67
Uninsured, under 65 (2024): 10.3%; 90% interval 9.3%–11.3% · Census SAHIE

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

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 12th Judicial Circuit Court
Judges: 3 (Circuit Court judges per circuit (general civil + felony criminal jurisdiction); District Court judges (limited jurisdiction) separate. Vintage 2026 alacourt.gov; counts for the 34th, 36th, and 41st circuits are approximate (single-county rural circuits typically carry 1 judge per Ala. Code § 12-17-23).)
Court seats: Elba and Enterprise, Troy

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Coffee totals, 2024 — the per-100k rate is based on 5 recorded deaths, too few to be statistically reliable

Traffic fatalities: 5; 12 per 100k adults (18+)
Fatal crashes: 5

NHTSA FARS 2024

Civil docket composition

Filings in this county, 2025

Account collection was the largest civil litigation category, at 26.9% of 297 filings. Motor-vehicle negligence ranked #4 at 14.5%.

Account collection 80 26.9%
Contract, ejectment and seizure 59 19.9%
Other civil 56 18.9%
Motor-vehicle negligence 43 14.5%
Equity, non-damage 11 3.7%
Negligence, general 11 3.7%

A further 139 filings in this division were protective orders, forfeitures or other non-litigation matters, and are excluded from these shares.

State judiciary caseload statistics