Jury Pool Profile
Claiborne County, Mississippi
Democratic +68 (2024)
- Population
- 8,908
- Median household income
- $34,371
- Unemployment
- 9.3%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 968 10.9%
- Black or African American alone 7,681 86.2%
- Asian alone 13 0.1%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 0 0.0%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
- Some other race alone 5 0.1%
- Two or more races 241 2.7%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 20 0.2%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 33.8
- Under 18 1,941 21.8%
- 18–24 1,803 20.2%
- 25–44 1,759 19.7%
- 45–64 1,717 19.3%
- 65 and over 1,688 18.9%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 9.3%
- +5.51 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $860.8M
- 0.54% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $69,263
- Establishments
- 134
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 1,667 51.2%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 1,043 32.0%
- Public administration 164 5.0%
- Leisure & hospitality 163 5.0%
- Manufacturing 131 4.0%
- Professional & business services 38 1.2%
- Financial activities 29 0.9%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 75.2%
- Median gross rent
- $651
- Owner-occupied
- 2,132
- Renter-occupied
- 704
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 3,541 votes cast
- Democratic 2,950 83.3%
- Republican 558 15.8%
- Other / third-party 33 0.9%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
99.2% speak only English at home
- Other 26 0.3%
- Spanish 15 0.2%
- German 12 0.1%
- Other Indo-European 9 0.1%
- Slavic languages 7 0.1%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 2,836
- Family households
- 1,801
- 63.5% of households
- Married w/ children
- 954
- Single-mother households
- 207
- Veterans
- 240
- 3.5% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
13.0% overall adherence rate
- 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%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 81.9%
- With a disability
- 11.6%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 20.6%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- 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 countys.
Traffic safety context
Mississippi statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 1
- 14.35 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 1
NHTSA FARS 2023