Lee County, Alabama

• White (non-Hispanic) 118,308 65.3%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 9,779 5.4%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 39,130 21.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 7,839 4.3%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 4,885 2.7%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 89 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 57 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 1,047 0.6%

• Under 18 37,937 20.9%
• 18–24 30,416 16.8%
• 25–44 47,399 26.2%
• 45–64 41,361 22.8%
• 65 and over 24,021 13.3%

Median household income

$70,233

90% interval $66,785–$73,681

+$3,529 vs AL · 9th of 67

Below poverty line

16.9%

90% interval 15.0%–18.8%

+1.7 pp vs AL · 43rd of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

2.7%

−0.19 pp vs. state

County GDP

$9.3B

2.85% of state

Avg. annual pay

$55,924

Establishments

4,623

• Education & health services 19,905 29.1%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 13,194 19.3%
• Leisure & hospitality 10,172 14.9%
• Professional & business services 7,789 11.4%
• Manufacturing 6,905 10.1%
• Financial activities 2,416 3.5%
• Public administration 2,056 3.0%
• Other services 1,252 1.8%

The sectors listed cover 93.3% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

66.3%

−3.9 pp vs AL · 55th of 67

Median gross rent

$1,058

+$51 vs AL · 9th of 67

Owner-occupied

46,064

Renter-occupied

23,372

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 63% 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 (Financial activities, $76,221/yr) pays 3.3× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $23,000/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 46,020 63.3%
• Democratic 25,798 35.5%
• Other / third-party 877 1.2%

• Spanish 6,287 3.7%
• Korean 2,882 1.7%
• Chinese 1,250 0.7%
• German or other West Germanic 631 0.4%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 466 0.3%
• Vietnamese 439 0.3%
• Arabic 416 0.2%
• Tagalog 108 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 58 0.0%

Households

69,436

Family households

41,647

60.0% of households

Married couples w/ children

12,858

30.9% of families

Single-mother families

3,806

9.1% of families

Veterans

10,251

7.2% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 31,178 17.9%
• Mainline Protestant 12,672 7.3%
• Black Protestant 8,672 5.0%
• Catholic 6,545 3.8%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 3,295 1.9%

Health insured

91.4%

±0.8 pp

Uninsured

8.6%

±0.8 pp

38th of 67

With a disability

13.1%

±0.8 pp

66th of 67

Bachelor's or higher

42.4%

±1.5 pp

+14.0 pp vs AL · 3rd of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

9.7%

90% interval 8.8%–10.6% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

37th 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

Opelika

Traffic fatalities

26

18.16 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

25

Contract, ejectment and seizure was the largest civil litigation category, at 23.4% of 791 filings. Motor-vehicle negligence ranked #3 at 20.1%.

• Contract, ejectment and seizure 185 23.4%
• Account collection 182 23.0%
• Motor-vehicle negligence 159 20.1%
• Other civil 84 10.6%
• Equity, non-damage 32 4.0%
• Negligence, general 31 3.9%

A further 270 filings in this division were protective orders, forfeitures or other non-litigation matters, and are excluded from these shares.