Jackson County, Alabama

• White (non-Hispanic) 46,772 88.2%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,897 3.6%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 1,662 3.1%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 253 0.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 2,125 4.0%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 208 0.4%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 14 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 122 0.2%

• Under 18 11,035 20.8%
• 18–24 4,046 7.6%
• 25–44 12,438 23.4%
• 45–64 14,452 27.2%
• 65 and over 11,082 20.9%

Median household income

$56,900

90% interval $51,916–$61,884

−$9,804 vs AL · 34th of 67

Below poverty line

17.0%

90% interval 14.4%–19.6%

+1.8 pp vs AL · 41st of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.3%

+0.46 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.1B

0.66% of state

Avg. annual pay

$51,886

Establishments

1,238

• Manufacturing 4,232 28.0%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 3,626 24.0%
• Education & health services 3,131 20.7%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,032 6.8%
• Public administration 825 5.5%
• Construction 739 4.9%
• Professional & business services 528 3.5%
• Financial activities 453 3.0%
• Information 235 1.6%
• Other services 195 1.3%
• Natural resources & mining 36 0.2%
• Unclassified 3 0.0%

Home ownership

75.1%

+4.9 pp vs AL · 34th of 67

Median gross rent

$780

−$227 vs AL · 33rd of 67

Owner-occupied

16,374

Renter-occupied

5,421

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 73% 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 (Information, $154,655/yr) pays 7.7× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $20,066/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 12 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 20,073 85.4%
• Democratic 3,276 13.9%
• Other / third-party 160 0.7%

• Spanish 1,296 2.6%
• Vietnamese 112 0.2%
• Tagalog 68 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 41 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 36 0.1%
• Korean 7 0.0%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 2 0.0%

Households

21,795

Family households

14,363

65.9% of households

Married couples w/ children

3,532

24.6% of families

Single-mother families

1,186

8.3% of families

Veterans

3,202

7.6% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 21,745 41.4%
• Catholic 2,340 4.5%
• Black Protestant 1,852 3.5%
• Mainline Protestant 1,682 3.2%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 707 1.3%

Health insured

89.7%

±1.3 pp

Uninsured

10.3%

±1.3 pp

20th of 67

With a disability

21.6%

±1.5 pp

16th of 67

Bachelor's or higher

15.9%

±1.5 pp

−12.5 pp vs AL · 41st of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

12.4%

90% interval 11.2%–13.6% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

38th 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

Scottsboro

Traffic fatalities

14

33.32 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

13

Contract, ejectment and seizure was the largest civil litigation category, at 20.4% of 269 filings. Motor-vehicle negligence ranked #4 at 11.9%.

• Contract, ejectment and seizure 55 20.4%
• Account collection 50 18.6%
• Other civil 34 12.6%
• Motor-vehicle negligence 32 11.9%
• Equity, non-damage 28 10.4%
• Workers' compensation 13 4.8%

A further 12 filings in this division were protective orders, forfeitures or other non-litigation matters, and are excluded from these shares.