Covington County, Alabama

• White (non-Hispanic) 30,978 82.3%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 765 2.0%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 4,477 11.9%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 173 0.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,066 2.8%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 71 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 98 0.3%

• Under 18 8,346 22.2%
• 18–24 2,857 7.6%
• 25–44 8,389 22.3%
• 45–64 9,681 25.7%
• 65 and over 8,355 22.2%

Median household income

$53,576

90% interval $47,955–$59,197

−$13,128 vs AL · 43rd of 67

Below poverty line

18.9%

90% interval 15.5%–22.3%

+3.7 pp vs AL · 27th of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.0%

+0.12 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.7B

0.51% of state

Avg. annual pay

$50,610

Establishments

1,166

• Trade, transportation & utilities 3,469 27.8%
• Education & health services 3,064 24.6%
• Manufacturing 1,719 13.8%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,064 8.5%
• Professional & business services 698 5.6%
• Public administration 692 5.6%
• Financial activities 471 3.8%

The sectors listed cover 89.7% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

76.3%

+6.1 pp vs AL · 27th of 67

Median gross rent

$746

−$261 vs AL · 42nd of 67

Owner-occupied

11,168

Renter-occupied

3,474

• 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.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $70,631/yr) pays 3.6× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $19,407/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 11 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 14,677 86.0%
• Democratic 2,314 13.6%
• Other / third-party 81 0.5%

• Spanish 409 1.2%
• German or other West Germanic 48 0.1%
• Tagalog 22 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 7 0.0%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 3 0.0%
• Korean 3 0.0%

Households

14,642

Family households

9,813

67.0% of households

Married couples w/ children

2,465

25.1% of families

Single-mother families

808

8.2% of families

Veterans

2,438

8.3% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 18,437 49.1%
• Mainline Protestant 2,000 5.3%
• Black Protestant 468 1.2%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 459 1.2%
• Catholic 369 1.0%

Health insured

90.6%

±1.4 pp

Uninsured

9.4%

±1.4 pp

25th of 67

With a disability

20.8%

±1.6 pp

26th of 67

Bachelor's or higher

17.2%

±1.7 pp

−11.2 pp vs AL · 34th of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

11.4%

90% interval 10.2%–12.6% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

22nd 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

Andalusia

Traffic fatalities

11

37.57 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

7

Account collection was the largest civil litigation category, at 26.6% of 188 filings. Motor-vehicle negligence ranked #4 at 8.5%.

• Account collection 50 26.6%
• Contract, ejectment and seizure 41 21.8%
• Other civil 26 13.8%
• Motor-vehicle negligence 16 8.5%
• Equity, non-damage 12 6.4%
• Negligence, general 8 4.3%

A further 5 filings in this division were protective orders, forfeitures or other non-litigation matters, and are excluded from these shares.