Crittenden County, Arkansas

• White (non-Hispanic) 18,328 38.8%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,555 3.3%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 24,040 50.9%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 358 0.8%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 2,923 6.2%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 45 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 17 0.0%

• Under 18 12,759 27.0%
• 18–24 4,149 8.8%
• 25–44 11,760 24.9%
• 45–64 11,377 24.1%
• 65 and over 7,221 15.3%

Median household income

$51,600

90% interval $47,368–$55,832

−$10,546 vs AR · 49th of 75

Below poverty line

22.5%

90% interval 18.3%–26.7%

+7.2 pp vs AR · 10th of 75

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.7%

+1.4 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.3B

1.25% of state

Avg. annual pay

$49,985

Establishments

1,121

• Trade, transportation & utilities 6,612 36.9%
• Education & health services 3,328 18.6%
• Leisure & hospitality 2,980 16.6%
• Manufacturing 1,940 10.8%
• Professional & business services 863 4.8%
• Public administration 758 4.2%
• Financial activities 403 2.3%
• Other services 72 0.4%
• Construction 47 0.3%
• Information 6 0.0%

The sectors listed cover 95.0% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

57.4%

−9.0 pp vs AR · 70th of 75

Median gross rent

$911

−$36 vs AR · 9th of 75

Owner-occupied

10,440

Renter-occupied

7,763

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 72% 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 (Construction, $76,157/yr) pays 2.7× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $28,292/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 16 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Democratic 7,362 50.1%
• Republican 7,028 47.9%
• Other / third-party 291 2.0%

• Spanish 786 1.8%
• Chinese 155 0.4%
• Tagalog 69 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 60 0.1%
• Korean 39 0.1%
• Arabic 31 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 15 0.0%
• German or other West Germanic 2 0.0%

Households

18,203

Family households

11,981

65.8% of households

Married couples w/ children

2,118

17.7% of families

Single-mother families

2,377

19.8% of families

Veterans

1,835

5.3% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 18,351 38.1%
• Black Protestant 9,854 20.5%
• Mainline Protestant 2,249 4.7%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 853 1.8%
• Catholic 420 0.9%

Health insured

90.4%

±1.2 pp

Uninsured

9.6%

±1.2 pp

23rd of 75

With a disability

17.6%

±1.4 pp

65th of 75

Bachelor's or higher

17.0%

±1.7 pp

−8.7 pp vs AR · 36th of 75

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

10.7%

90% interval 9.4%–12.0% · 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

16

46.37 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

14