Howard County, Arkansas

• White (non-Hispanic) 7,909 62.9%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,582 12.6%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 2,614 20.8%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 73 0.6%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 393 3.1%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 12 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%

• Under 18 3,234 25.7%
• 18–24 1,034 8.2%
• 25–44 3,158 25.1%
• 45–64 2,786 22.1%
• 65 and over 2,371 18.8%

Median household income

$50,330

90% interval $44,457–$56,203

−$11,816 vs AR · 55th of 75

Below poverty line

18.5%

90% interval 14.9%–22.1%

+3.2 pp vs AR · 32nd of 75

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.3%

+1.07 pp vs. state

County GDP

$908.5M

0.48% of state

Avg. annual pay

$46,946

Establishments

340

• Manufacturing 2,179 38.0%
• Education & health services 1,338 23.3%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 899 15.7%
• Leisure & hospitality 280 4.9%
• Public administration 249 4.3%
• Construction 201 3.5%
• Professional & business services 173 3.0%
• Natural resources & mining 158 2.8%
• Information 4 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 95.6% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

72.5%

+6.1 pp vs AR · 38th of 75

Median gross rent

$690

−$257 vs AR · 56th of 75

Owner-occupied

3,698

Renter-occupied

1,400

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 77% 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, $53,254/yr) pays 2.7× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $19,610/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 17 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 3,246 72.6%
• Democratic 1,158 25.9%
• Other / third-party 69 1.5%

• Spanish 1,168 9.9%
• German or other West Germanic 273 2.3%
• Chinese 53 0.5%
• Tagalog 3 0.0%

Households

5,098

Family households

3,400

66.7% of households

Married couples w/ children

969

28.5% of families

Single-mother families

542

15.9% of families

Veterans

507

5.4% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 5,818 45.5%
• Black Protestant 1,132 8.9%
• Mainline Protestant 565 4.4%
• Catholic 270 2.1%

Health insured

90.1%

±2.5 pp

Uninsured

9.9%

±2.5 pp

17th of 75

With a disability

20.3%

±2.2 pp

47th of 75

Bachelor's or higher

16.2%

±3.1 pp

−9.5 pp vs AR · 43rd 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

9th Judicial Circuit Court

Judges

4 (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

Arkadelphia, Ashdown, De Queen, Murfreesboro, Nashville

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

2

21.39 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

2