Amite County, Mississippi

• White (non-Hispanic) 7,364 58.6%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 10 0.1%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 5,033 40.1%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 3 0.0%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 129 1.0%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 26 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%

• Under 18 2,542 20.2%
• 18–24 899 7.2%
• 25–44 2,355 18.7%
• 45–64 3,467 27.6%
• 65 and over 3,302 26.3%

Median household income

$48,604

90% interval $42,936–$54,272

−$10,697 vs MS · 55th of 82

Below poverty line

22.0%

90% interval 17.4%–26.6%

+4.2 pp vs MS · 25th of 82

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.6%

+0.88 pp vs. state

County GDP

$389.3M

0.25% of state

Avg. annual pay

$45,841

Establishments

208

• Education & health services 572 27.4%
• Manufacturing 488 23.4%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 486 23.3%
• Public administration 180 8.6%
• Natural resources & mining 131 6.3%
• Construction 83 4.0%
• Leisure & hospitality 58 2.8%
• Financial activities 34 1.6%
• Information 6 0.3%

The sectors listed cover 97.6% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

82.4%

+12.4 pp vs MS · 8th of 82

Median gross rent

$670

−$284 vs MS · 66th of 82

Owner-occupied

4,819

Renter-occupied

1,031

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 74% 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 (Manufacturing, $60,186/yr) pays 3.2× the lowest (Information, $18,723/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 4,484 65.8%
• Democratic 2,246 33.0%
• Other / third-party 85 1.2%

• Spanish 54 0.5%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 12 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 11 0.1%
• Tagalog 3 0.0%

Households

5,850

Family households

3,575

61.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

745

20.8% of families

Single-mother families

500

14.0% of families

Veterans

373

3.7% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 5,409 42.5%
• Black Protestant 454 3.6%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 317 2.5%
• Mainline Protestant 133 1.0%
• Catholic 35 0.3%

Health insured

88.6%

±3.2 pp

Uninsured

11.4%

±3.2 pp

39th of 82

With a disability

24.2%

±3 pp

10th of 82

Bachelor's or higher

11.2%

±2.5 pp

−13.9 pp vs MS · 78th of 82

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

14.1%

90% interval 12.6%–15.6% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

6th Circuit Court District

Judges

2 (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

Liberty, Meadville, Natchez, Woodville

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

4

39.91 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

4