Craighead County, Arkansas

• White (non-Hispanic) 80,158 70.8%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 7,146 6.3%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 18,846 16.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 1,404 1.2%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 5,078 4.5%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 193 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 31 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 393 0.3%

• Under 18 28,553 25.2%
• 18–24 12,148 10.7%
• 25–44 32,143 28.4%
• 45–64 24,682 21.8%
• 65 and over 15,723 13.9%

Median household income

$58,784

90% interval $54,117–$63,451

−$3,362 vs AR · 19th of 75

Below poverty line

18.4%

90% interval 16.0%–20.8%

+3.1 pp vs AR · 33rd of 75

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.0%

−0.3 pp vs. state

County GDP

$7.3B

3.85% of state

Avg. annual pay

$53,124

Establishments

3,090

• Education & health services 18,413 33.2%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 11,099 20.0%
• Manufacturing 7,556 13.6%
• Leisure & hospitality 6,281 11.3%
• Professional & business services 4,496 8.1%
• Construction 2,673 4.8%
• Financial activities 1,856 3.3%
• Public administration 1,243 2.2%
• Other services 1,116 2.0%
• Information 452 0.8%
• Natural resources & mining 268 0.5%

Home ownership

60.1%

−6.3 pp vs AR · 67th of 75

Median gross rent

$958

+$11 vs AR · 8th of 75

Owner-occupied

26,712

Renter-occupied

17,725

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 67% 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 (Financial activities, $70,875/yr) pays 3.1× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $22,687/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 18 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 25,152 67.5%
• Democratic 11,210 30.1%
• Other / third-party 880 2.4%

• Spanish 5,273 5.0%
• Chinese 296 0.3%
• German or other West Germanic 213 0.2%
• Arabic 202 0.2%
• Tagalog 182 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 157 0.1%
• Vietnamese 153 0.1%
• Korean 37 0.0%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 3 0.0%

Households

44,437

Family households

29,178

65.7% of households

Married couples w/ children

8,652

29.7% of families

Single-mother families

4,108

14.1% of families

Veterans

5,325

6.3% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 50,599 45.5%
• Mainline Protestant 5,656 5.1%
• Black Protestant 4,980 4.5%
• Catholic 3,923 3.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,999 1.8%
• Orthodox 50 0.0%

Health insured

91.8%

±1.1 pp

Uninsured

8.2%

±1.1 pp

40th of 75

With a disability

19.5%

±1.2 pp

54th of 75

Bachelor's or higher

29.7%

±1.9 pp

+4.0 pp vs AR · 5th of 75

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

10.4%

90% interval 9.3%–11.5% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

2nd Judicial Circuit Court

Judges

9 (Circuit Court judges per circuit (general civil + criminal jurisdiction across five subject-matter divisions: civil, criminal, juvenile, probate, domestic relations); District Court judges (limited jurisdiction) separate. Vintage 2026 arcourts.gov; counts for small rural circuits are approximate (single-county or single-judge circuits typically carry 2-4 judges per Ark. Code Ann. § 16-13-2402). Five circuits (8th, 9th, 11th, 18th, 19th) are administratively subdivided into East/West subdistricts for judge-residence purposes; the counts here combine both subdistricts.)

Court seats

Blytheville, Osceola, Harrisburg, Jonesboro, Lake City, Marion, Paragould, Piggott, Corning

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

22

25.98 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

19