Talladega County, Alabama

• White (non-Hispanic) 50,098 61.8%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,947 2.4%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 24,143 29.8%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 480 0.6%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 4,087 5.0%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 118 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 15 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 133 0.2%

• Under 18 16,707 20.6%
• 18–24 6,151 7.6%
• 25–44 20,696 25.5%
• 45–64 21,767 26.9%
• 65 and over 15,700 19.4%

Median household income

$55,578

90% interval $51,143–$60,013

−$11,126 vs AL · 36th of 67

Below poverty line

19.0%

90% interval 16.3%–21.7%

+3.8 pp vs AL · 25th of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.5%

+0.6 pp vs. state

County GDP

$4.5B

1.38% of state

Avg. annual pay

$60,802

Establishments

1,628

• Manufacturing 10,317 32.6%
• Education & health services 6,337 20.0%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 5,761 18.2%
• Leisure & hospitality 2,697 8.5%
• Professional & business services 2,234 7.1%
• Public administration 1,387 4.4%
• Construction 1,030 3.3%
• Financial activities 801 2.5%
• Natural resources & mining 459 1.5%

The sectors listed cover 98.1% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

72.0%

+1.8 pp vs AL · 42nd of 67

Median gross rent

$785

−$222 vs AL · 30th of 67

Owner-occupied

24,209

Renter-occupied

9,435

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 71% 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 (Natural resources & mining, $82,227/yr) pays 3.0× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $27,386/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• 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.

• Republican 22,100 66.6%
• Democratic 10,898 32.9%
• Other / third-party 177 0.5%

• Spanish 1,758 2.3%
• German or other West Germanic 167 0.2%
• Tagalog 96 0.1%
• Vietnamese 77 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 76 0.1%
• Korean 48 0.1%
• Arabic 10 0.0%

Households

33,644

Family households

22,741

67.6% of households

Married couples w/ children

4,652

20.5% of families

Single-mother families

3,279

14.4% of families

Veterans

4,507

7% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 34,314 41.8%
• Black Protestant 6,562 8.0%
• Mainline Protestant 3,515 4.3%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,087 1.3%
• Catholic 876 1.1%

Health insured

91.9%

±1 pp

Uninsured

8.1%

±1 pp

45th of 67

With a disability

21.3%

±1.4 pp

19th of 67

Bachelor's or higher

16.5%

±1.5 pp

−11.9 pp vs AL · 40th of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

9.5%

90% interval 8.5%–10.5% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

29th 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

Talladega

Traffic fatalities

27

41.98 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

25

Account collection was the largest civil litigation category, at 26.4% of 681 filings. Motor-vehicle negligence ranked #3 at 14.8%.

• Account collection 180 26.4%
• Contract, ejectment and seizure 174 25.6%
• Motor-vehicle negligence 101 14.8%
• Other civil 45 6.6%
• Workers' compensation 41 6.0%
• Negligence, general 31 4.6%

A further 11 filings in this division were protective orders, forfeitures or other non-litigation matters, and are excluded from these shares.