Claiborne County, Mississippi

• White (non-Hispanic) 948 11.0%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 25 0.3%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 7,374 85.9%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 12 0.1%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 208 2.4%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 10 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 5 0.1%

• Under 18 1,869 21.8%
• 18–24 1,564 18.2%
• 25–44 1,783 20.8%
• 45–64 1,698 19.8%
• 65 and over 1,668 19.4%

Median household income

$38,548

90% interval $33,930–$43,166

−$20,753 vs MS · 78th of 82

Below poverty line

33.3%

90% interval 26.4%–40.2%

+15.5 pp vs MS · 4th of 82

Unemployment (12-mo)

8.0%

+4.32 pp vs. state

County GDP

$860.8M

0.54% of state

Avg. annual pay

$68,952

Establishments

134

• Education & health services 1,727 53.0%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,008 30.9%
• Public administration 164 5.0%
• Leisure & hospitality 142 4.4%
• Manufacturing 125 3.8%
• Professional & business services 44 1.3%
• Financial activities 30 0.9%

The sectors listed cover 99.4% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

76.5%

+6.5 pp vs MS · 34th of 82

Median gross rent

$660

−$294 vs MS · 73rd of 82

Owner-occupied

2,302

Renter-occupied

706

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 89% 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 (Professional & business services, $143,289/yr) pays 5.8× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $24,711/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 24 workers, typical of an institutional-employer economy where large hospitals, plants, schools, and government agencies dominate. Expect many panelists to share an employer rather than work for themselves.

• Democratic 2,950 83.3%
• Republican 558 15.8%
• Other / third-party 33 0.9%

• Spanish 33 0.4%
• German or other West Germanic 12 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 10 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 1 0.0%

Households

3,008

Family households

1,859

61.8% of households

Married couples w/ children

251

13.5% of families

Single-mother families

253

13.6% of families

Veterans

238

3.6% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 745 8.2%
• Mainline Protestant 304 3.3%
• Black Protestant 76 0.8%
• Catholic 61 0.7%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1 0.0%

Health insured

84.9%

±3.2 pp

Uninsured

15.1%

±3.2 pp

9th of 82

With a disability

13.4%

±2.6 pp

74th of 82

Bachelor's or higher

18.1%

±4 pp

−7.0 pp vs MS · 40th of 82

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

10.4%

90% interval 9.1%–11.7% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

23rd Circuit Court District

Judges

1 (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

Fayette, Hazlehurst, Port Gibson

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

6

89.38 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

6