Geneva County, Alabama

• White (non-Hispanic) 21,643 80.5%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,437 5.3%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 2,265 8.4%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 168 0.6%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 986 3.7%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 44 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 5 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 339 1.3%

• Under 18 5,905 22.0%
• 18–24 1,918 7.1%
• 25–44 6,110 22.7%
• 45–64 7,502 27.9%
• 65 and over 5,452 20.3%

Median household income

$55,097

90% interval $49,591–$60,603

−$11,607 vs AL · 37th of 67

Below poverty line

17.1%

90% interval 13.1%–21.1%

+1.9 pp vs AL · 39th of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

2.9%

−0.01 pp vs. state

County GDP

$827.5M

0.25% of state

Avg. annual pay

$43,432

Establishments

616

• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,309 23.4%
• Education & health services 1,135 20.3%
• Manufacturing 856 15.3%
• Leisure & hospitality 434 7.8%
• Natural resources & mining 426 7.6%
• Professional & business services 349 6.2%
• Construction 250 4.5%
• Financial activities 238 4.3%
• Public administration 77 1.4%

The sectors listed cover 90.8% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

78.1%

+7.9 pp vs AL · 15th of 67

Median gross rent

$784

−$223 vs AL · 31st of 67

Owner-occupied

8,316

Renter-occupied

2,331

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 59% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Public administration, $56,867/yr) pays 3.3× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $17,473/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Small-business scale

  Average establishment employs only 9.1 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

• Republican 10,929 88.2%
• Democratic 1,391 11.2%
• Other / third-party 70 0.6%

• Spanish 884 3.5%
• Korean 250 1.0%
• German or other West Germanic 26 0.1%
• Vietnamese 3 0.0%

Households

10,647

Family households

7,126

66.9% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,879

26.4% of families

Single-mother families

550

7.7% of families

Veterans

2,009

9.6% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 13,057 49.0%
• Mainline Protestant 1,260 4.7%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 689 2.6%
• Black Protestant 302 1.1%
• Catholic 61 0.2%

Health insured

87.5%

±1.6 pp

Uninsured

12.5%

±1.6 pp

4th of 67

With a disability

23.0%

±2.3 pp

7th of 67

Bachelor's or higher

13.2%

±2 pp

−15.2 pp vs AL · 60th of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

12.5%

90% interval 11.1%–13.9% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

33rd 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

Geneva, Ozark

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

7

33.36 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

6

Account collection was the largest civil litigation category, at 31.8% of 157 filings. Motor-vehicle negligence ranked #4 at 10.2%.

• Account collection 50 31.8%
• Contract, ejectment and seizure 31 19.7%
• Other civil 19 12.1%
• Motor-vehicle negligence 16 10.2%
• Equity, non-damage 11 7.0%
• Bad faith, fraud and misrepresentation 6 3.8%

A further 6 filings in this division were protective orders, forfeitures or other non-litigation matters, and are excluded from these shares.