DeKalb County, Alabama

• White (non-Hispanic) 55,620 77.0%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 12,382 17.1%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 975 1.3%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 136 0.2%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 2,447 3.4%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 291 0.4%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 6 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 412 0.6%

• Under 18 17,353 24.0%
• 18–24 6,178 8.5%
• 25–44 17,372 24.0%
• 45–64 18,618 25.8%
• 65 and over 12,748 17.6%

Median household income

$54,180

90% interval $50,017–$58,343

−$12,524 vs AL · 40th of 67

Below poverty line

21.3%

90% interval 18.6%–24.0%

+6.1 pp vs AL · 16th of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

2.7%

−0.13 pp vs. state

County GDP

$3.1B

0.94% of state

Avg. annual pay

$52,324

Establishments

1,566

• Manufacturing 6,639 27.8%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 5,498 23.0%
• Education & health services 5,119 21.5%
• Leisure & hospitality 2,003 8.4%
• Professional & business services 1,276 5.3%
• Public administration 1,080 4.5%
• Construction 779 3.3%
• Financial activities 562 2.4%
• Natural resources & mining 370 1.6%
• Other services 296 1.2%
• Information 181 0.8%
• Unclassified 12 0.1%

Home ownership

78.3%

+8.1 pp vs AL · 14th of 67

Median gross rent

$693

−$314 vs AL · 52nd of 67

Owner-occupied

20,490

Renter-occupied

5,691

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 72% 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 (Information, $75,842/yr) pays 3.5× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $21,922/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• 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 25,633 86.6%
• Democratic 3,758 12.7%
• Other / third-party 192 0.6%

• Spanish 9,485 13.9%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 100 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 77 0.1%
• Tagalog 17 0.0%
• Vietnamese 16 0.0%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 8 0.0%
• Korean 5 0.0%

Households

26,181

Family households

18,378

70.2% of households

Married couples w/ children

5,480

29.8% of families

Single-mother families

1,296

7.1% of families

Veterans

3,103

5.7% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 34,683 48.4%
• Catholic 5,787 8.1%
• Mainline Protestant 3,217 4.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,129 1.6%
• Black Protestant 450 0.6%

Health insured

84.5%

±1.3 pp

Uninsured

15.5%

±1.3 pp

1st of 67

With a disability

17.0%

±1.1 pp

49th of 67

Bachelor's or higher

14.1%

±1.5 pp

−14.3 pp vs AL · 54th of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

14.6%

90% interval 13.2%–16.0% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

9th 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

Centre, Fort Payne

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

21

38.24 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

20

Other civil was the largest civil litigation category, at 21.4% of 351 filings. Motor-vehicle negligence ranked #4 at 10.3%.

• Other civil 75 21.4%
• Contract, ejectment and seizure 69 19.7%
• Account collection 58 16.5%
• Motor-vehicle negligence 36 10.3%
• Equity, non-damage 22 6.3%
• Negligence, general 17 4.8%

A further 16 filings in this division were protective orders, forfeitures or other non-litigation matters, and are excluded from these shares.