Lamar County, Alabama

• White (non-Hispanic) 11,726 85.6%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 262 1.9%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 1,366 10.0%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 6 0.0%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 285 2.1%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 25 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 23 0.2%

• Under 18 3,030 22.1%
• 18–24 949 6.9%
• 25–44 2,997 21.9%
• 45–64 3,648 26.6%
• 65 and over 3,069 22.4%

Median household income

$54,598

90% interval $48,141–$61,055

−$12,106 vs AL · 38th of 67

Below poverty line

18.1%

90% interval 14.4%–21.8%

+2.9 pp vs AL · 30th of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.4%

+0.52 pp vs. state

County GDP

$473.5M

0.15% of state

Avg. annual pay

$52,592

Establishments

295

• Manufacturing 1,126 33.7%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 635 19.0%
• Education & health services 582 17.4%
• Professional & business services 266 8.0%
• Public administration 201 6.0%
• Leisure & hospitality 175 5.2%
• Financial activities 116 3.5%
• Construction 72 2.2%
• Natural resources & mining 61 1.8%
• Other services 38 1.1%
• Information 13 0.4%
• Unclassified 1 0.0%

The sectors listed cover 98.2% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

75.7%

+5.5 pp vs AL · 33rd of 67

Median gross rent

$549

−$458 vs AL · 65th of 67

Owner-occupied

3,849

Renter-occupied

1,237

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 70% 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 (Professional & business services, $65,326/yr) pays 3.0× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $21,467/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 6,033 87.8%
• Democratic 806 11.7%
• Other / third-party 36 0.5%

• Spanish 85 0.7%
• German or other West Germanic 26 0.2%

Households

5,086

Family households

3,549

69.8% of households

Married couples w/ children

899

25.3% of families

Single-mother families

375

10.6% of families

Veterans

736

6.9% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 8,141 58.3%
• Black Protestant 906 6.5%
• Mainline Protestant 677 4.8%

Health insured

92.0%

±1.8 pp

Uninsured

8.0%

±1.8 pp

47th of 67

With a disability

22.6%

±2.3 pp

11th of 67

Bachelor's or higher

12.1%

±2.2 pp

−16.3 pp vs AL · 63rd of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

10.0%

90% interval 8.8%–11.2% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

24th Judicial Circuit Court

Judges

1 (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

Carrollton, Fayette, Vernon

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

4

37.51 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

4

Account collection was the largest civil litigation category, at 34.8% of 46 filings. Motor-vehicle negligence ranked #3 at 10.9%.

• Account collection 16 34.8%
• Contract, ejectment and seizure 11 23.9%
• Motor-vehicle negligence 5 10.9%
• Other civil 5 10.9%
• Negligence, general 3 6.5%
• Will, trust, estate and guardianship 2 4.3%

A further 32 filings in this division were protective orders, forfeitures or other non-litigation matters, and are excluded from these shares.