Monroe County, Alabama

• White (non-Hispanic) 10,390 53.6%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 45 0.2%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 8,127 41.9%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 73 0.4%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 558 2.9%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 169 0.9%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 26 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%

• Under 18 4,101 21.2%
• 18–24 1,844 9.5%
• 25–44 4,000 20.6%
• 45–64 5,249 27.1%
• 65 and over 4,194 21.6%

Median household income

$51,014

90% interval $45,588–$56,440

−$15,690 vs AL · 51st of 67

Below poverty line

21.2%

90% interval 16.1%–26.3%

+6.0 pp vs AL · 17th of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

6.0%

+3.11 pp vs. state

County GDP

$848.1M

0.26% of state

Avg. annual pay

$56,137

Establishments

492

• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,456 24.3%
• Education & health services 1,348 22.5%
• Manufacturing 1,295 21.6%
• Leisure & hospitality 381 6.4%
• Professional & business services 359 6.0%
• Public administration 312 5.2%
• Natural resources & mining 237 4.0%
• Other services 204 3.4%
• Construction 179 3.0%

The sectors listed cover 96.3% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

71.7%

+1.5 pp vs AL · 44th of 67

Median gross rent

$666

−$341 vs AL · 56th of 67

Owner-occupied

5,280

Renter-occupied

2,083

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 68% 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.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Manufacturing, $89,564/yr) pays 4.9× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $18,391/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• 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 6,007 61.3%
• Democratic 3,740 38.2%
• Other / third-party 52 0.5%

• Spanish 61 0.3%
• Arabic 53 0.3%
• Korean 28 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 27 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 12 0.1%
• Tagalog 12 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 9 0.0%

Households

7,363

Family households

4,497

61.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

642

14.3% of families

Single-mother families

473

10.5% of families

Veterans

879

5.8% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 8,471 42.8%
• Black Protestant 2,892 14.6%
• Mainline Protestant 1,090 5.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 390 2.0%
• Catholic 144 0.7%

Health insured

90.9%

±1.8 pp

Uninsured

9.1%

±1.8 pp

31st of 67

With a disability

17.9%

±2.2 pp

41st of 67

Bachelor's or higher

11.7%

±2 pp

−16.7 pp vs AL · 65th of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

10.5%

90% interval 9.2%–11.8% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

35th 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

Evergreen, Monroeville

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

4

26.17 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

4

Contract, ejectment and seizure was the largest civil litigation category, at 23.3% of 133 filings. Motor-vehicle negligence ranked #5 at 9.0%.

• Contract, ejectment and seizure 31 23.3%
• Account collection 25 18.8%
• Other civil 21 15.8%
• Equity, non-damage 12 9.0%
• Motor-vehicle negligence 12 9.0%
• Workers' compensation 9 6.8%

A further 5 filings in this division were protective orders, forfeitures or other non-litigation matters, and are excluded from these shares.