Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana

• White (non-Hispanic) 82,693 60.5%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 7,924 5.8%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 39,995 29.2%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 1,072 0.8%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 4,493 3.3%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 89 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 48 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 424 0.3%

• Under 18 33,579 24.6%
• 18–24 13,435 9.8%
• 25–44 37,553 27.5%
• 45–64 31,137 22.8%
• 65 and over 21,034 15.4%

Median household income

$57,775

90% interval $53,501–$62,049

−$3,263 vs LA · 30th of 64

Below poverty line

19.4%

90% interval 16.4%–22.4%

+0.8 pp vs LA · 37th of 64

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.2%

+0.83 pp vs. state

County GDP

$6.4B

1.96% of state

Avg. annual pay

$48,968

Establishments

3,888

• Education & health services 13,974 29.6%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 11,256 23.8%
• Leisure & hospitality 6,333 13.4%
• Professional & business services 3,429 7.3%
• Manufacturing 2,877 6.1%
• Construction 2,027 4.3%
• Financial activities 1,601 3.4%
• Public administration 1,389 2.9%
• Other services 959 2.0%
• Information 364 0.8%
• Natural resources & mining 297 0.6%

The sectors listed cover 94.3% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

70.3%

+2.9 pp vs LA · 36th of 64

Median gross rent

$1,003

−$61 vs LA · 18th of 64

Owner-occupied

36,540

Renter-occupied

15,459

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 67% of the parish 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, $75,980/yr) pays 4.0× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $18,762/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 12 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 37,500 68.1%
• Democratic 16,886 30.6%
• Other / third-party 718 1.3%

• Spanish 5,033 4.0%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 408 0.3%
• Vietnamese 278 0.2%
• Chinese 160 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 84 0.1%
• Arabic 71 0.1%
• Tagalog 54 0.0%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 33 0.0%
• Korean 2 0.0%

Households

51,999

Family households

33,632

64.7% of households

Married couples w/ children

8,038

23.9% of families

Single-mother families

5,528

16.4% of families

Veterans

6,438

6.2% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 37,131 27.9%
• Catholic 18,467 13.9%
• Black Protestant 7,803 5.9%
• Mainline Protestant 3,851 2.9%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,392 1.8%

Health insured

92.7%

±0.9 pp

Uninsured

7.3%

±0.9 pp

27th of 64

With a disability

21.2%

±1.3 pp

10th of 64

Bachelor's or higher

20.8%

±1.6 pp

−6.2 pp vs LA · 19th of 64

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

9.4%

90% interval 8.4%–10.4% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

21st Judicial District Court

Judges

9

Court seats

Livingston Parish Courthouse (Livingston, LA), St. Helena Parish Courthouse (Greensburg, LA), Tangipahoa Parish Courthouse (Amite, LA)

This judicial district spans multiple parishes.

Traffic fatalities

30

33.3 per 100k drivers

Injuries

1,649

1833 per 100k drivers

Fatal crashes

28

Licensed drivers

89,962