Jury Pool Profile

Alcorn County, Mississippi

Republican +68 (2024)

Population: 34,500
Median household income: $49,404
Unemployment: 3.6%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 27,926 80.9%
Black or African American alone 3,765 10.9%
Asian alone 16 0.0%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 121 0.4%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 60 0.2%
Some other race alone 869 2.5%
Two or more races 1,743 5.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,273 3.7%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 40.6

Under 18 7,792 22.6%
18–24 2,673 7.7%
25–44 8,379 24.3%
45–64 9,179 26.6%
65 and over 6,477 18.8%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.6%; -0.15 pp vs. state
County GDP: $1.7B; 1.05% of state
Avg. annual pay: $46,912
Establishments: 820

U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Trade, transportation & utilities 3,347 25.2%
Manufacturing 2,758 20.8%
Education & health services 2,468 18.6%
Professional & business services 1,490 11.2%
Leisure & hospitality 1,289 9.7%
Public administration 583 4.4%
Financial activities 554 4.2%
Construction 397 3.0%
Other services 245 1.8%
Information 71 0.5%
Natural resources & mining 68 0.5%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 65.4%
Median gross rent: $728
Owner-occupied: 9,340
Renter-occupied: 4,941

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 15,112 votes cast

Republican 12,657 83.8%
Democratic 2,328 15.4%
Other / third-party 127 0.8%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

97.6% speak only English at home

Spanish 354 1.1%
Other 229 0.7%
Tagalog 81 0.2%
German 40 0.1%
Other Indo-European 39 0.1%
Arabic 26 0.1%
Vietnamese 13 0.0%
Chinese 2 0.0%
French (incl. Cajun) 1 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 14,281
Family households: 8,914; 62.4% of households
Married w/ children: 6,259
Single-mother households: 896
Veterans: 1,447; 5.4% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

72.8% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 20,487 59.0%
Mainline Protestant 2,099 6.0%
Black Protestant 1,538 4.4%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 621 1.8%
Catholic 534 1.5%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 88.8%
With a disability: 22.4%
Bachelor's or higher: 18.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 1st Circuit Court District
Judges: 4 (Circuit Court judges per district (general civil + felony criminal jurisdiction); Chancery Court judges (equity matters — separate 20 Chancery Court Districts) and limited-jurisdiction County Court judges are not counted here. Vintage 2026 courts.ms.gov; statutory judgeship allocations are set district-by-district in Miss. Code § 9-7-3 et seq. Counts for the smallest rural districts (22nd, 23rd) are approximate and may reflect single-judgeship statutory allocations.)
Court seats: Aberdeen, Booneville, Corinth, Fulton, Iuka, Pontotoc, Tupelo

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Mississippi statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 13; 48.67 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 11

NHTSA FARS 2023