Walker County, Alabama

• White (non-Hispanic) 55,914 86.2%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2,435 3.8%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 4,070 6.3%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 270 0.4%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,857 2.9%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 52 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 243 0.4%

• Under 18 14,869 22.9%
• 18–24 5,207 8.0%
• 25–44 15,279 23.6%
• 45–64 16,743 25.8%
• 65 and over 12,743 19.7%

Median household income

$57,993

90% interval $53,660–$62,326

−$8,711 vs AL · 31st of 67

Below poverty line

18.1%

90% interval 15.0%–21.2%

+2.9 pp vs AL · 31st of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.0%

+0.11 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.6B

0.79% of state

Avg. annual pay

$50,390

Establishments

1,562

• Education & health services 5,571 29.5%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 4,151 22.0%
• Manufacturing 2,480 13.2%
• Leisure & hospitality 2,324 12.3%
• Public administration 909 4.8%
• Professional & business services 887 4.7%
• Natural resources & mining 755 4.0%
• Other services 607 3.2%
• Construction 537 2.8%
• Financial activities 24 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 96.7% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

76.1%

+5.9 pp vs AL · 29th of 67

Median gross rent

$756

−$251 vs AL · 40th of 67

Owner-occupied

19,330

Renter-occupied

6,058

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 65% 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 (Natural resources & mining, $91,087/yr) pays 4.2× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $21,703/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 25,464 85.6%
• Democratic 4,102 13.8%
• Other / third-party 181 0.6%

• Spanish 1,795 2.9%
• Chinese 95 0.2%
• German or other West Germanic 45 0.1%
• Vietnamese 42 0.1%
• Tagalog 33 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 28 0.0%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 24 0.0%
• Korean 3 0.0%

Households

25,388

Family households

16,775

66.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

3,679

21.9% of families

Single-mother families

1,695

10.1% of families

Veterans

2,704

5.4% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 36,792 56.3%
• Mainline Protestant 2,176 3.3%
• Black Protestant 1,992 3.0%
• Catholic 1,661 2.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 923 1.4%

Health insured

90.4%

±1 pp

Uninsured

9.6%

±1 pp

24th of 67

With a disability

22.2%

±1.3 pp

13th of 67

Bachelor's or higher

16.6%

±1.6 pp

−11.8 pp vs AL · 37th of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

11.3%

90% interval 10.2%–12.4% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

14th 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

Jasper

Traffic fatalities

22

44.02 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

21

Contract, ejectment and seizure was the largest civil litigation category, at 27.0% of 397 filings. Motor-vehicle negligence ranked #3 at 13.4%.

• Contract, ejectment and seizure 107 27.0%
• Account collection 89 22.4%
• Motor-vehicle negligence 53 13.4%
• Other civil 44 11.1%
• Negligence, general 23 5.8%
• Equity, non-damage 17 4.3%

A further 22 filings in this division were protective orders, forfeitures or other non-litigation matters, and are excluded from these shares.