Chickasaw County, Mississippi

• White (non-Hispanic) 8,363 49.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 189 1.1%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 8,074 47.7%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 61 0.4%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 221 1.3%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 7 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%

• Under 18 4,197 24.8%
• 18–24 1,416 8.4%
• 25–44 4,236 25.0%
• 45–64 3,913 23.1%
• 65 and over 3,153 18.6%

Median household income

$46,080

90% interval $40,771–$51,389

−$13,221 vs MS · 62nd of 82

Below poverty line

23.1%

90% interval 18.7%–27.5%

+5.3 pp vs MS · 21st of 82

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.4%

+0.7 pp vs. state

County GDP

$573.9M

0.36% of state

Avg. annual pay

$39,463

Establishments

367

• Manufacturing 1,223 28.2%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,122 25.9%
• Education & health services 787 18.2%
• Public administration 326 7.5%
• Leisure & hospitality 285 6.6%
• Natural resources & mining 173 4.0%
• Financial activities 150 3.5%
• Construction 134 3.1%

The sectors listed cover 97.0% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

70.3%

+0.3 pp vs MS · 54th of 82

Median gross rent

$670

−$284 vs MS · 67th of 82

Owner-occupied

4,692

Renter-occupied

1,982

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 72% 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 (Financial activities, $51,720/yr) pays 3.3× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $15,861/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.

• Republican 4,079 56.4%
• Democratic 3,090 42.7%
• Other / third-party 65 0.9%

• Spanish 160 1.0%
• Chinese 50 0.3%
• German or other West Germanic 34 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 19 0.1%

Households

6,674

Family households

4,413

66.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

912

20.7% of families

Single-mother families

733

16.6% of families

Veterans

560

4.4% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 10,012 58.5%
• Black Protestant 1,446 8.5%
• Mainline Protestant 1,283 7.5%
• Catholic 250 1.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 157 0.9%

Health insured

89.0%

±2.3 pp

Uninsured

11.0%

±2.3 pp

50th of 82

With a disability

14.6%

±1.8 pp

71st of 82

Bachelor's or higher

12.0%

±2.4 pp

−13.1 pp vs MS · 76th of 82

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

13.9%

90% interval 12.4%–15.4% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

3rd Circuit Court District

Judges

3 (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

Ashland, Holly Springs, Houston, Okolona, New Albany, Oxford, Pittsboro, Ripley

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

7

55.04 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

7