Limestone County, Alabama

• White (non-Hispanic) 80,405 72.3%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 8,295 7.5%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 14,108 12.7%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 1,895 1.7%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 5,629 5.1%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 321 0.3%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 37 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 543 0.5%

• Under 18 24,658 22.2%
• 18–24 8,343 7.5%
• 25–44 30,227 27.2%
• 45–64 30,691 27.6%
• 65 and over 17,314 15.6%

Median household income

$78,991

90% interval $72,078–$85,904

+$12,287 vs AL · 5th of 67

Below poverty line

10.3%

90% interval 8.5%–12.1%

−4.9 pp vs AL · 64th of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

2.5%

−0.34 pp vs. state

County GDP

$7.0B

2.14% of state

Avg. annual pay

$64,128

Establishments

2,262

• Trade, transportation & utilities 9,257 26.6%
• Manufacturing 8,243 23.7%
• Education & health services 6,941 20.0%
• Construction 2,848 8.2%
• Leisure & hospitality 2,508 7.2%
• Professional & business services 1,727 5.0%
• Public administration 1,104 3.2%
• Financial activities 881 2.5%
• Other services 592 1.7%
• Natural resources & mining 511 1.5%
• Information 98 0.3%
• Unclassified 2 0.0%

Home ownership

77.6%

+7.4 pp vs AL · 17th of 67

Median gross rent

$970

−$37 vs AL · 13th of 67

Owner-occupied

31,777

Renter-occupied

9,176

• 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 (Information, $86,465/yr) pays 3.5× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $24,518/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 37,887 71.4%
• Democratic 14,581 27.5%
• Other / third-party 628 1.2%

• Spanish 4,598 4.4%
• German or other West Germanic 445 0.4%
• Korean 416 0.4%
• Vietnamese 215 0.2%
• Chinese 198 0.2%
• Arabic 121 0.1%
• Tagalog 96 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 52 0.0%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 36 0.0%

Households

40,953

Family households

28,535

69.7% of households

Married couples w/ children

9,223

32.3% of families

Single-mother families

2,273

8.0% of families

Veterans

7,259

8.4% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 35,856 34.6%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 6,353 6.1%
• Mainline Protestant 4,893 4.7%
• Black Protestant 4,447 4.3%
• Catholic 2,614 2.5%

Health insured

92.2%

±1.2 pp

Uninsured

7.8%

±1.2 pp

50th of 67

With a disability

14.8%

±1 pp

60th of 67

Bachelor's or higher

30.2%

±1.8 pp

+1.8 pp vs AL · 8th of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.4%

90% interval 7.6%–9.2% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

39th 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

Athens

Traffic fatalities

22

25.41 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

21

Account collection was the largest civil litigation category, at 19.6% of 601 filings. Motor-vehicle negligence ranked #3 at 16.0%.

• Account collection 118 19.6%
• Contract, ejectment and seizure 109 18.1%
• Motor-vehicle negligence 96 16.0%
• Other civil 86 14.3%
• Equity, non-damage 43 7.2%
• Workers' compensation 35 5.8%

A further 39 filings in this division were protective orders, forfeitures or other non-litigation matters, and are excluded from these shares.