Clay County, Mississippi

• White (non-Hispanic) 6,773 36.8%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 36 0.2%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 11,058 60.2%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 20 0.1%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 496 2.7%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%

• Under 18 4,145 22.5%
• 18–24 1,651 9.0%
• 25–44 4,498 24.5%
• 45–64 4,455 24.2%
• 65 and over 3,634 19.8%

Median household income

$46,829

90% interval $41,405–$52,253

−$12,472 vs MS · 59th of 82

Below poverty line

20.6%

90% interval 15.6%–25.6%

+2.8 pp vs MS · 35th of 82

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.7%

+0.96 pp vs. state

County GDP

$688.5M

0.44% of state

Avg. annual pay

$48,187

Establishments

402

• Manufacturing 2,038 31.4%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,388 21.4%
• Education & health services 1,216 18.8%
• Leisure & hospitality 652 10.1%
• Public administration 335 5.2%
• Professional & business services 300 4.6%
• Financial activities 155 2.4%
• Information 9 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 94.0% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

71.3%

+1.3 pp vs MS · 49th of 82

Median gross rent

$817

−$137 vs MS · 33rd of 82

Owner-occupied

5,567

Renter-occupied

2,238

• 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.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Professional & business services, $119,366/yr) pays 5.7× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $21,021/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 16 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 4,960 54.8%
• Republican 4,017 44.4%
• Other / third-party 80 0.9%

• Spanish 48 0.3%
• Tagalog 7 0.0%

Households

7,805

Family households

5,314

68.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,089

20.5% of families

Single-mother families

1,127

21.2% of families

Veterans

871

6.1% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 8,328 44.7%
• Mainline Protestant 4,856 26.1%
• Black Protestant 2,940 15.8%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 196 1.1%
• Catholic 186 1.0%

Health insured

90.9%

±3.1 pp

Uninsured

9.1%

±3.1 pp

72nd of 82

With a disability

12.0%

±2.1 pp

79th of 82

Bachelor's or higher

17.3%

±2.9 pp

−7.8 pp vs MS · 48th of 82

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

12.4%

90% interval 11.0%–13.8% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

16th 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

Columbus, Macon, Starkville, West Point

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

4

28.09 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

4