Jury Pool Profile

Pike County, Alabama

Republican +25.1 (2024)

County seat: Troy
Judicial district: 12th Judicial Circuit Court
Population (July 2025 estimate): 33,688; Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 32,987.

At a glance

Pike County is a 33,688-person venue. The county population is 56% White and 37% Black (Census race-alone categories). Median household income is $51,052, $15,652 below the AL state median of $66,704; 28.0% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 4.8% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, most commonly Spanish and Chinese. The largest employment sector is Trade, transportation & utilities, at 27.3% of covered employment, average pay $48,139/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.4%, above the 2.86% state average. The county carried the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking 58% to 62% of the vote across the three.

Population: 32,987
Median household income: $48,677
Unemployment: 3.4%

Who sits on a jury?

Racially mixed

50–70% White and ≥15% Black. This county: 56% / 37%.

Pike County has a population of 32,987, with a median age of 31.6. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 55.6%; Black residents 37.2%. Independently, 2.7% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The median household earns $51,052; 28.0% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 22.8% live below the federal poverty line.

Race & ethnicity

White (non-Hispanic) 18,009 54.6%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 902 2.7%
Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 12,233 37.1%
Asian (non-Hispanic) 616 1.9%
Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,058 3.2%
American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 89 0.3%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 34 0.1%
Some other race (non-Hispanic) 46 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Age distribution

Median age 31.6

Under 18 6,358 19.3%
18–24 7,256 22.0%
25–44 7,520 22.8%
45–64 6,713 20.4%
65 and over 5,140 15.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Income & poverty

Median household income: $51,052; 90% interval $45,317–$56,787; −$15,652 vs AL · 50th of 67
Below poverty line: 22.8%; 90% interval 18.9%–26.7%; +7.6 pp vs AL · 10th of 67

U.S. Census SAIPE 2024

Economic context

Healthcare & education anchored

BLS QCEW 'Education & health services' is ≥20% of total covered employment. This county: 20.5%.

Trade, transportation & utilities is the largest employment sector at 27.3% of covered employment, followed by Education & health services at 20.5%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.4%, above the Alabama state average.

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.4%; +0.54 pp vs. state
County GDP: $2.1B; 0.64% of state
Avg. annual pay: $53,806
Establishments: 818

U.S. BLS 2026M07 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2025

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Trade, transportation & utilities 4,229 27.3%
Education & health services 3,179 20.5%
Manufacturing 2,883 18.6%
Leisure & hospitality 1,703 11.0%
Professional & business services 1,187 7.7%
Public administration 941 6.1%
Financial activities 480 3.1%
Construction 359 2.3%
Other services 342 2.2%
Natural resources & mining 122 0.8%
Information 27 0.2%

BLS QCEW 2025

Housing

Home ownership: 61.3%; −8.9 pp vs AL · 65th of 67
Median gross rent: $856; −$151 vs AL · 22nd of 67
Owner-occupied: 7,657
Renter-occupied: 4,827

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Local economy in 3 reads

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.
Wide wage spread

Highest-paid sector (Other services, $78,545/yr) pays 4.2× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $18,822/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.
Institutional employer scale

Average establishment employs 19 workers, typical of an institutional-employer economy where large hospitals, plants, schools, and government agencies dominate. Expect many panelists to share an employer rather than work for themselves.

BLS QCEW 2025

Political composition

Consistently Republican

Republican candidate carried this county in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (avg winning share: 60%). 'Strongly' threshold: ≥60% avg.

Pike County was carried by the Republican candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 62.2% in 2024, 58.1% in 2020, 59.0% in 2016.

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 13,214 votes cast

Republican
Democratic

Republican 8,224 62.2%
Democratic 4,899 37.1%
Other / third-party 91 0.7%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Family-majority, English-speaking

Family households are 57% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 4.8% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).

4.8% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, Chinese, Korean. Veterans account for 7.0% of the adult civilian population (1,861 individuals).

Languages spoken at home

95.2% speak only English at home

Spanish 603 1.9%
Chinese 248 0.8%
Korean 111 0.4%
German or other West Germanic 94 0.3%
Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 81 0.3%
Vietnamese 66 0.2%
Tagalog 37 0.1%
French, Haitian, or Cajun 1 0.0%
Arabic 1 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Household composition

Households: 12,484
Family households: 7,102; 56.9% of households
Married couples w/ children: 1,536; 21.6% of families
Single-mother families: 1,005; 14.2% of families
Veterans: 1,861; 7% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Religious composition

48.8% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 10,338 31.3%
Black Protestant 2,550 7.7%
Mainline Protestant 2,389 7.2%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 523 1.6%
Catholic 322 1.0%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 91.6%; ±1.2 pp
Uninsured: 8.4%; ±1.2 pp; 40th of 67
With a disability: 15.2%; ±1.2 pp; 59th of 67
Bachelor's or higher: 28.0%; ±2.6 pp; −0.4 pp vs AL · 11th of 67
Uninsured, under 65 (2024): 10.0%; 90% interval 8.7%–11.3% · Census SAHIE

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

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 12th 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: Elba and Enterprise, Troy

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Pike totals, 2024 — the per-100k rate is based on 8 recorded deaths, too few to be statistically reliable

Traffic fatalities: 8; 30.04 per 100k adults (18+)
Fatal crashes: 7

NHTSA FARS 2024

Civil docket composition

Filings in this county, 2025

Contract, ejectment and seizure was the largest civil litigation category, at 27.4% of 197 filings. Motor-vehicle negligence ranked #3 at 13.7%.

Contract, ejectment and seizure 54 27.4%
Account collection 35 17.8%
Motor-vehicle negligence 27 13.7%
Other civil 21 10.7%
Workers' compensation 17 8.6%
Equity, non-damage 12 6.1%

A further 91 filings in this division were protective orders, forfeitures or other non-litigation matters, and are excluded from these shares.

State judiciary caseload statistics

Presidential vote share by year
Year	Republican	Democratic
2016	59.0%	38.7%
2020	58.1%	40.7%
2024	62.2%	37.1%