Lauderdale County, Alabama

• White (non-Hispanic) 78,710 82.1%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3,317 3.5%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 8,649 9.0%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 593 0.6%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 4,046 4.2%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 173 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 21 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 321 0.3%

• Under 18 18,584 19.4%
• 18–24 11,662 12.2%
• 25–44 22,286 23.3%
• 45–64 23,653 24.7%
• 65 and over 19,645 20.5%

Median household income

$67,098

90% interval $61,998–$72,198

+$394 vs AL · 15th of 67

Below poverty line

12.8%

90% interval 10.1%–15.5%

−2.4 pp vs AL · 60th of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.3%

+0.39 pp vs. state

County GDP

$3.9B

1.21% of state

Avg. annual pay

$48,444

Establishments

2,678

• Education & health services 8,566 27.6%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 7,097 22.9%
• Leisure & hospitality 4,847 15.6%
• Manufacturing 2,293 7.4%
• Professional & business services 2,017 6.5%
• Public administration 1,590 5.1%
• Financial activities 1,473 4.8%
• Other services 664 2.1%

The sectors listed cover 92.1% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

68.9%

−1.3 pp vs AL · 50th of 67

Median gross rent

$838

−$169 vs AL · 24th of 67

Owner-occupied

27,047

Renter-occupied

12,211

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 66% 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, $67,469/yr) pays 3.2× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $21,378/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• 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 32,708 75.3%
• Democratic 10,326 23.8%
• Other / third-party 420 1.0%

• Spanish 2,481 2.7%
• Vietnamese 235 0.3%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 160 0.2%
• German or other West Germanic 126 0.1%
• Chinese 79 0.1%
• Tagalog 71 0.1%
• Arabic 67 0.1%
• Korean 21 0.0%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 20 0.0%

Households

39,258

Family households

25,141

64.0% of households

Married couples w/ children

5,961

23.7% of families

Single-mother families

1,919

7.6% of families

Veterans

5,119

6.6% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 49,681 53.1%
• Mainline Protestant 6,149 6.6%
• Black Protestant 3,576 3.8%
• Catholic 1,466 1.6%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,126 1.2%

Health insured

91.2%

±0.9 pp

Uninsured

8.8%

±0.9 pp

35th of 67

With a disability

16.9%

±1 pp

50th of 67

Bachelor's or higher

29.8%

±1.5 pp

+1.4 pp vs AL · 9th of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

9.8%

90% interval 8.8%–10.8% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

11th Judicial Circuit Court

Judges

4 (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

Florence

Traffic fatalities

19

24.6 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

18

Contract, ejectment and seizure was the largest civil litigation category, at 23.7% of 435 filings. Motor-vehicle negligence ranked #2 at 19.3%.

• Contract, ejectment and seizure 103 23.7%
• Motor-vehicle negligence 84 19.3%
• Account collection 60 13.8%
• Other civil 51 11.7%
• Equity, non-damage 22 5.1%
• Workers' compensation 20 4.6%

A further 24 filings in this division were protective orders, forfeitures or other non-litigation matters, and are excluded from these shares.