Cullman County, Alabama

• White (non-Hispanic) 81,036 89.5%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4,563 5.0%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 880 1.0%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 498 0.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 3,258 3.6%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 228 0.3%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 18 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 85 0.1%

• Under 18 20,313 22.4%
• 18–24 7,010 7.7%
• 25–44 22,301 24.6%
• 45–64 23,708 26.2%
• 65 and over 17,234 19.0%

Median household income

$64,722

90% interval $58,647–$70,797

−$1,982 vs AL · 18th of 67

Below poverty line

14.1%

90% interval 11.6%–16.6%

−1.1 pp vs AL · 56th of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

2.8%

−0.11 pp vs. state

County GDP

$4.3B

1.32% of state

Avg. annual pay

$53,582

Establishments

2,380

• Trade, transportation & utilities 7,242 23.3%
• Education & health services 7,095 22.9%
• Manufacturing 6,329 20.4%
• Leisure & hospitality 3,215 10.4%
• Professional & business services 1,728 5.6%
• Public administration 1,632 5.3%
• Financial activities 939 3.0%
• Other services 599 1.9%

The sectors listed cover 92.8% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

76.6%

+6.4 pp vs AL · 26th of 67

Median gross rent

$908

−$99 vs AL · 16th of 67

Owner-occupied

27,088

Renter-occupied

8,259

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 67% 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, $77,620/yr) pays 3.3× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $23,580/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 13 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 38,704 89.9%
• Democratic 4,039 9.4%
• Other / third-party 309 0.7%

• Spanish 3,253 3.8%
• Tagalog 154 0.2%
• Vietnamese 103 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 67 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 44 0.1%
• Chinese 14 0.0%

Households

35,347

Family households

24,892

70.4% of households

Married couples w/ children

7,205

28.9% of families

Single-mother families

1,925

7.7% of families

Veterans

4,727

6.7% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 47,760 54.4%
• Catholic 3,171 3.6%
• Mainline Protestant 2,598 3.0%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 834 0.9%
• Black Protestant 650 0.7%

Health insured

89.1%

±1.3 pp

Uninsured

10.9%

±1.3 pp

13th of 67

With a disability

18.4%

±1.2 pp

38th of 67

Bachelor's or higher

19.7%

±1.6 pp

−8.7 pp vs AL · 25th of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

11.9%

90% interval 10.8%–13.0% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

32nd 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

Cullman

Traffic fatalities

22

31.32 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

21

Contract, ejectment and seizure was the largest civil litigation category, at 25.1% of 557 filings. Motor-vehicle negligence ranked #2 at 17.8%.

• Contract, ejectment and seizure 140 25.1%
• Motor-vehicle negligence 99 17.8%
• Account collection 94 16.9%
• Other civil 87 15.6%
• Negligence, general 33 5.9%
• Equity, non-damage 29 5.2%

A further 10 filings in this division were protective orders, forfeitures or other non-litigation matters, and are excluded from these shares.