Marshall County, Alabama

• White (non-Hispanic) 76,257 76.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 17,192 17.2%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 2,478 2.5%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 599 0.6%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 2,774 2.8%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 197 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 72 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 179 0.2%

• Under 18 25,941 26.0%
• 18–24 8,226 8.2%
• 25–44 23,706 23.8%
• 45–64 24,825 24.9%
• 65 and over 17,050 17.1%

Median household income

$64,913

90% interval $59,655–$70,171

−$1,791 vs AL · 17th of 67

Below poverty line

15.9%

90% interval 13.6%–18.2%

+0.7 pp vs AL · 50th of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

2.6%

−0.29 pp vs. state

County GDP

$5.3B

1.62% of state

Avg. annual pay

$50,246

Establishments

2,686

• Manufacturing 12,771 31.1%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 8,406 20.5%
• Education & health services 7,510 18.3%
• Leisure & hospitality 4,110 10.0%
• Professional & business services 3,001 7.3%
• Public administration 1,436 3.5%
• Financial activities 1,234 3.0%
• Other services 542 1.3%

The sectors listed cover 95.0% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

75.8%

+5.6 pp vs AL · 30th of 67

Median gross rent

$795

−$212 vs AL · 29th of 67

Owner-occupied

27,625

Renter-occupied

8,834

• 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 (Financial activities, $62,100/yr) pays 3.0× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $20,734/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 34,434 85.5%
• Democratic 5,553 13.8%
• Other / third-party 290 0.7%

• Spanish 11,257 12.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 372 0.4%
• German or other West Germanic 89 0.1%
• Chinese 69 0.1%
• Vietnamese 60 0.1%
• Korean 37 0.0%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 21 0.0%
• Tagalog 14 0.0%
• Arabic 8 0.0%

Households

36,459

Family households

25,599

70.2% of households

Married couples w/ children

7,006

27.4% of families

Single-mother families

2,293

9.0% of families

Veterans

5,716

7.8% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 46,814 48.0%
• Catholic 7,903 8.1%
• Mainline Protestant 6,268 6.4%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,248 1.3%
• Black Protestant 860 0.9%

Health insured

88.0%

±1.1 pp

Uninsured

12.0%

±1.1 pp

6th of 67

With a disability

16.3%

±1 pp

55th of 67

Bachelor's or higher

21.5%

±1.2 pp

−6.9 pp vs AL · 19th of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

12.7%

90% interval 11.7%–13.7% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

27th Judicial Circuit Court

Judges

3 (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

Guntersville

Traffic fatalities

15

20.32 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

12

Contract, ejectment and seizure was the largest civil litigation category, at 24.2% of 500 filings. Motor-vehicle negligence ranked #2 at 16.6%.

• Contract, ejectment and seizure 121 24.2%
• Motor-vehicle negligence 83 16.6%
• Account collection 76 15.2%
• Other civil 58 11.6%
• Equity, non-damage 34 6.8%
• Negligence, general 25 5.0%

A further 6 filings in this division were protective orders, forfeitures or other non-litigation matters, and are excluded from these shares.