Cross County, Arkansas

• White (non-Hispanic) 11,844 71.6%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 378 2.3%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 2,617 15.8%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 479 2.9%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,170 7.1%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 43 0.3%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 12 0.1%

• Under 18 3,925 23.7%
• 18–24 1,122 6.8%
• 25–44 4,223 25.5%
• 45–64 4,150 25.1%
• 65 and over 3,123 18.9%

Median household income

$54,428

90% interval $48,200–$60,656

−$7,718 vs AR · 34th of 75

Below poverty line

18.4%

90% interval 14.3%–22.5%

+3.1 pp vs AR · 34th of 75

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.3%

+0.09 pp vs. state

County GDP

$587.8M

0.31% of state

Avg. annual pay

$43,091

Establishments

455

• Education & health services 1,564 33.2%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,097 23.3%
• Leisure & hospitality 412 8.7%
• Manufacturing 306 6.5%
• Construction 294 6.2%
• Financial activities 246 5.2%
• Public administration 192 4.1%
• Professional & business services 160 3.4%
• Information 15 0.3%

The sectors listed cover 91.0% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

67.5%

+1.1 pp vs AR · 50th of 75

Median gross rent

$764

−$183 vs AR · 34th of 75

Owner-occupied

4,378

Renter-occupied

2,105

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 65% 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, $55,110/yr) pays 2.7× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $20,600/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 10 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 4,753 72.7%
• Democratic 1,642 25.1%
• Other / third-party 139 2.1%

• Tagalog 339 2.2%
• Arabic 221 1.4%
• Spanish 204 1.3%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 15 0.1%
• Chinese 4 0.0%
• German or other West Germanic 3 0.0%

Households

6,483

Family households

4,608

71.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,174

25.5% of families

Single-mother families

751

16.3% of families

Veterans

819

6.5% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 6,969 41.4%
• Black Protestant 1,342 8.0%
• Mainline Protestant 1,158 6.9%
• Catholic 300 1.8%

Health insured

91.3%

±1.8 pp

Uninsured

8.7%

±1.8 pp

33rd of 75

With a disability

18.7%

±1.7 pp

61st of 75

Bachelor's or higher

18.4%

±3.1 pp

−7.3 pp vs AR · 27th of 75

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

12.4%

90% interval 10.9%–13.9% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

1st Judicial Circuit Court

Judges

5 (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

Augusta, Clarendon, Forrest City, Helena, Marianna, Wynne

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

3

23.78 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

3