Jury Pool Profile
Craighead County, Arkansas
Republican +37 (2024)
- Population
- 112,097
- Median household income
- $57,615
- Unemployment
- 3.9%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 82,027 73.2%
- Black or African American alone 18,803 16.8%
- Asian alone 1,291 1.2%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 286 0.3%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 38 0.0%
- Some other race alone 2,650 2.4%
- Two or more races 7,002 6.2%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6,899 6.2%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 34.5
- Under 18 28,368 25.3%
- 18–24 12,017 10.7%
- 25–44 31,527 28.1%
- 45–64 24,794 22.1%
- 65 and over 15,391 13.7%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 3.9%
- -0.3 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $7.3B
- 3.85% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $51,690
- Establishments
- 3,006
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 18,088 32.9%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 11,068 20.1%
- Manufacturing 7,497 13.6%
- Leisure & hospitality 6,342 11.5%
- Professional & business services 4,443 8.1%
- Construction 2,732 5.0%
- Financial activities 1,883 3.4%
- Public administration 1,220 2.2%
- Other services 976 1.8%
- Information 479 0.9%
- Natural resources & mining 327 0.6%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 59.2%
- Median gross rent
- $930
- Owner-occupied
- 25,668
- Renter-occupied
- 17,689
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 37,242 votes cast
- Republican 25,152 67.5%
- Democratic 11,210 30.1%
- Other / third-party 880 2.4%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
94.0% speak only English at home
- Spanish 4,684 4.5%
- Chinese 381 0.4%
- Other Asian/Pacific 215 0.2%
- Arabic 214 0.2%
- German 208 0.2%
- Other Indo-European 182 0.2%
- French (incl. Cajun) 149 0.1%
- Tagalog 63 0.1%
- Other 58 0.1%
- Vietnamese 51 0.0%
- Korean 33 0.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 43,357
- Family households
- 28,907
- 66.7% of households
- Married w/ children
- 20,427
- Single-mother households
- 4,078
- Veterans
- 5,160
- 6.2% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
60.4% overall adherence rate
- 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%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 91.6%
- With a disability
- 19.0%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 27.8%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- 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 countys.
Traffic safety context
Arkansas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 10
- 11.94 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 9
NHTSA FARS 2023