Bolivar County, Mississippi

• White (non-Hispanic) 9,160 31.0%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 787 2.7%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 18,671 63.2%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 282 1.0%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 541 1.8%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 12 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 81 0.3%

• Under 18 7,273 24.6%
• 18–24 3,049 10.3%
• 25–44 7,237 24.5%
• 45–64 6,919 23.4%
• 65 and over 5,056 17.1%

Median household income

$44,329

90% interval $39,900–$48,758

−$14,972 vs MS · 66th of 82

Below poverty line

30.0%

90% interval 25.8%–34.2%

+12.2 pp vs MS · 12th of 82

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.7%

+0.98 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.4B

0.88% of state

Avg. annual pay

$44,558

Establishments

841

• Education & health services 3,581 34.1%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 2,260 21.5%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,184 11.3%
• Manufacturing 1,111 10.6%
• Public administration 623 5.9%
• Professional & business services 536 5.1%
• Financial activities 349 3.3%
• Construction 288 2.7%
• Natural resources & mining 254 2.4%
• Other services 244 2.3%
• Information 75 0.7%

Home ownership

62.6%

−7.4 pp vs MS · 69th of 82

Median gross rent

$685

−$269 vs MS · 61st of 82

Owner-occupied

7,464

Renter-occupied

4,451

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 67% 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, $62,498/yr) pays 3.6× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $17,385/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• 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.

• Democratic 6,419 61.5%
• Republican 3,943 37.8%
• Other / third-party 73 0.7%

• Spanish 543 2.0%
• Tagalog 80 0.3%
• Arabic 51 0.2%
• Vietnamese 31 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 30 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 6 0.0%

Households

11,915

Family households

7,064

59.3% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,041

14.7% of families

Single-mother families

1,294

18.3% of families

Veterans

714

3.2% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 9,893 31.9%
• Black Protestant 3,628 11.7%
• Mainline Protestant 1,501 4.8%
• Catholic 1,077 3.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 424 1.4%

Health insured

88.8%

±2 pp

Uninsured

11.2%

±2 pp

44th of 82

With a disability

18.9%

±1.4 pp

46th of 82

Bachelor's or higher

28.0%

±2.8 pp

+2.9 pp vs MS · 12th of 82

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

12.3%

90% interval 10.9%–13.7% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

11th 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

Clarksdale, Cleveland, Rosedale, Marks, Tunica

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

5

22.46 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

5