White County, Arkansas

• White (non-Hispanic) 66,171 85.0%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3,853 5.0%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 3,244 4.2%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 539 0.7%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 3,742 4.8%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 68 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 14 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 207 0.3%

• Under 18 18,039 23.2%
• 18–24 8,344 10.7%
• 25–44 18,855 24.2%
• 45–64 19,400 24.9%
• 65 and over 13,200 17.0%

Median household income

$57,435

90% interval $52,060–$62,810

−$4,711 vs AR · 24th of 75

Below poverty line

17.4%

90% interval 14.8%–20.0%

+2.1 pp vs AR · 41st of 75

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.2%

−0.03 pp vs. state

County GDP

$3.3B

1.76% of state

Avg. annual pay

$47,487

Establishments

1,889

• Education & health services 7,902 29.7%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 6,788 25.5%
• Leisure & hospitality 3,277 12.3%
• Manufacturing 2,559 9.6%
• Construction 1,603 6.0%
• Professional & business services 1,544 5.8%
• Financial activities 952 3.6%
• Public administration 713 2.7%
• Other services 636 2.4%
• Natural resources & mining 482 1.8%
• Information 134 0.5%

Home ownership

69.1%

+2.7 pp vs AR · 48th of 75

Median gross rent

$850

−$97 vs AR · 19th of 75

Owner-occupied

20,482

Renter-occupied

9,147

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 68% 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.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Natural resources & mining, $77,699/yr) pays 4.1× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $19,184/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 14 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 24,514 79.5%
• Democratic 5,641 18.3%
• Other / third-party 682 2.2%

• Spanish 1,938 2.6%
• Tagalog 156 0.2%
• German or other West Germanic 126 0.2%
• Chinese 112 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 80 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 54 0.1%
• Korean 24 0.0%
• Arabic 22 0.0%

Households

29,629

Family households

20,490

69.2% of households

Married couples w/ children

6,044

29.5% of families

Single-mother families

2,080

10.2% of families

Veterans

4,397

7.4% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 41,946 54.6%
• Mainline Protestant 3,373 4.4%
• Black Protestant 2,899 3.8%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,562 2.0%
• Catholic 1,375 1.8%

Health insured

90.2%

±1.3 pp

Uninsured

9.8%

±1.3 pp

19th of 75

With a disability

20.4%

±1.3 pp

46th of 75

Bachelor's or higher

20.4%

±1.5 pp

−5.3 pp vs AR · 15th of 75

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

10.9%

90% interval 9.8%–12.0% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

17th 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

Des Arc, DeValls Bluff, Searcy

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

19

31.77 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

18