Choctaw County, Mississippi

• White (non-Hispanic) 5,436 67.0%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 154 1.9%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 2,255 27.8%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 75 0.9%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 165 2.0%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 13 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 20 0.2%

• Under 18 1,737 21.4%
• 18–24 638 7.9%
• 25–44 1,803 22.2%
• 45–64 2,057 25.3%
• 65 and over 1,883 23.2%

Median household income

$53,406

90% interval $47,387–$59,425

−$5,895 vs MS · 34th of 82

Below poverty line

20.6%

90% interval 16.1%–25.1%

+2.8 pp vs MS · 34th of 82

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.2%

+0.49 pp vs. state

County GDP

$833.5M

0.53% of state

Avg. annual pay

$54,833

Establishments

153

• Education & health services 934 41.4%
• Natural resources & mining 445 19.7%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 279 12.4%
• Public administration 156 6.9%
• Leisure & hospitality 68 3.0%
• Professional & business services 44 1.9%
• Information 4 0.2%

The sectors listed cover 85.5% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

79.4%

+9.4 pp vs MS · 20th of 82

Median gross rent

$638

−$316 vs MS · 75th of 82

Owner-occupied

2,752

Renter-occupied

712

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 73% 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.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Trade, transportation & utilities, $95,693/yr) pays 8.8× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $10,919/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 15 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 2,881 74.1%
• Democratic 965 24.8%
• Other / third-party 44 1.1%

• Spanish 73 0.9%
• Vietnamese 28 0.4%
• Tagalog 18 0.2%

Households

3,464

Family households

2,303

66.5% of households

Married couples w/ children

652

28.3% of families

Single-mother families

224

9.7% of families

Veterans

310

4.9% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 4,106 49.8%
• Mainline Protestant 636 7.7%
• Black Protestant 196 2.4%

Health insured

89.4%

±3 pp

Uninsured

10.6%

±3 pp

56th of 82

With a disability

22.8%

±3.2 pp

18th of 82

Bachelor's or higher

20.1%

±3.3 pp

−5.0 pp vs MS · 25th of 82

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

11.2%

90% interval 9.9%–12.5% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

5th 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

Ackerman, Carrollton, Vaiden, Grenada, Kosciusko, Louisville, Walthall, Winona

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

1

15.67 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

1