Colbert County, Alabama

• White (non-Hispanic) 44,720 77.1%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2,049 3.5%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 8,991 15.5%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 280 0.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,775 3.1%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 96 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 111 0.2%

• Under 18 12,368 21.3%
• 18–24 4,477 7.7%
• 25–44 14,035 24.2%
• 45–64 15,289 26.4%
• 65 and over 11,853 20.4%

Median household income

$62,972

90% interval $57,100–$68,844

−$3,732 vs AL · 19th of 67

Below poverty line

14.9%

90% interval 12.1%–17.7%

−0.3 pp vs AL · 54th of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.3%

+0.46 pp vs. state

County GDP

$3.6B

1.09% of state

Avg. annual pay

$59,673

Establishments

1,704

• Manufacturing 6,020 24.3%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 5,354 21.6%
• Education & health services 4,852 19.6%
• Leisure & hospitality 2,164 8.7%
• Construction 1,763 7.1%
• Public administration 1,153 4.7%
• Other services 1,078 4.4%
• Professional & business services 1,060 4.3%
• Financial activities 904 3.7%
• Natural resources & mining 202 0.8%
• Information 122 0.5%
• Unclassified 7 0.0%

Home ownership

71.3%

+1.1 pp vs AL · 45th of 67

Median gross rent

$887

−$120 vs AL · 18th of 67

Owner-occupied

17,323

Renter-occupied

6,978

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 66% 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.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Other services, $113,525/yr) pays 5.8× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $19,578/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 15 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 19,714 72.8%
• Democratic 7,137 26.3%
• Other / third-party 235 0.9%

• Spanish 1,114 2.0%
• Vietnamese 18 0.0%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 14 0.0%
• German or other West Germanic 8 0.0%
• Arabic 8 0.0%
• Tagalog 6 0.0%
• Korean 3 0.0%

Households

24,301

Family households

15,133

62.3% of households

Married couples w/ children

3,555

23.5% of families

Single-mother families

1,694

11.2% of families

Veterans

3,321

7.3% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 25,285 44.2%
• Black Protestant 5,144 9.0%
• Mainline Protestant 2,540 4.4%
• Catholic 1,206 2.1%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 336 0.6%

Health insured

92.1%

±1.1 pp

Uninsured

7.9%

±1.1 pp

49th of 67

With a disability

18.3%

±1.1 pp

39th of 67

Bachelor's or higher

21.7%

±2 pp

−6.7 pp vs AL · 18th of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

9.8%

90% interval 8.8%–10.8% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

31st Judicial Circuit Court

Judges

2 (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

Tuscumbia

Traffic fatalities

12

26.28 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

12

Contract, ejectment and seizure was the largest civil litigation category, at 26.7% of 374 filings. Motor-vehicle negligence ranked #2 at 15.5%.

• Contract, ejectment and seizure 100 26.7%
• Motor-vehicle negligence 58 15.5%
• Account collection 51 13.6%
• Other civil 42 11.2%
• Workers' compensation 29 7.8%
• Equity, non-damage 20 5.3%

A further 45 filings in this division were protective orders, forfeitures or other non-litigation matters, and are excluded from these shares.