St. Clair County, Alabama

• White (non-Hispanic) 78,235 83.1%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2,805 3.0%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 9,458 10.0%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 537 0.6%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 2,497 2.7%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 294 0.3%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 85 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 255 0.3%

• Under 18 20,940 22.2%
• 18–24 6,919 7.3%
• 25–44 24,756 26.3%
• 45–64 24,719 26.3%
• 65 and over 16,832 17.9%

Median household income

$76,980

90% interval $71,941–$82,019

+$10,276 vs AL · 7th of 67

Below poverty line

9.7%

90% interval 7.6%–11.8%

−5.5 pp vs AL · 65th of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

2.6%

−0.27 pp vs. state

County GDP

$3.2B

0.97% of state

Avg. annual pay

$57,291

Establishments

2,112

• Trade, transportation & utilities 5,508 24.6%
• Education & health services 3,918 17.5%
• Manufacturing 3,754 16.8%
• Leisure & hospitality 2,706 12.1%
• Professional & business services 1,441 6.4%
• Public administration 1,374 6.1%
• Other services 877 3.9%
• Financial activities 715 3.2%

The sectors listed cover 90.7% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

82.6%

+12.4 pp vs AL · 2nd of 67

Median gross rent

$1,084

+$77 vs AL · 7th of 67

Owner-occupied

29,001

Renter-occupied

6,106

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 59% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Manufacturing, $94,962/yr) pays 4.3× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $22,064/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 11 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 35,501 81.7%
• Democratic 7,640 17.6%
• Other / third-party 299 0.7%

• Spanish 2,292 2.6%
• Tagalog 123 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 86 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 71 0.1%
• Chinese 55 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 16 0.0%
• Arabic 6 0.0%

Households

35,107

Family households

25,382

72.3% of households

Married couples w/ children

7,539

29.7% of families

Single-mother families

1,961

7.7% of families

Veterans

4,931

6.8% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 40,818 44.8%
• Mainline Protestant 2,366 2.6%
• Black Protestant 2,250 2.5%
• Catholic 1,617 1.8%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 385 0.4%

Health insured

92.8%

±0.9 pp

Uninsured

7.2%

±0.9 pp

62nd of 67

With a disability

16.7%

±1.1 pp

52nd of 67

Bachelor's or higher

21.4%

±1.5 pp

−7.0 pp vs AL · 20th of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.9%

90% interval 8.0%–9.8% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

30th 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

Ashville and Pell City

Traffic fatalities

18

24.58 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

16

Contract, ejectment and seizure was the largest civil litigation category, at 24.6% of 692 filings. Motor-vehicle negligence ranked #3 at 15.3%.

• Contract, ejectment and seizure 170 24.6%
• Account collection 169 24.4%
• Motor-vehicle negligence 106 15.3%
• Other civil 98 14.2%
• Equity, non-damage 29 4.2%
• Negligence, general 19 2.7%

A further 237 filings in this division were protective orders, forfeitures or other non-litigation matters, and are excluded from these shares.