DeSoto County, Mississippi

• White (non-Hispanic) 107,858 56.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 11,068 5.8%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 62,410 32.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 2,575 1.3%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 6,326 3.3%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 106 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 958 0.5%

• Under 18 47,890 25.0%
• 18–24 16,751 8.8%
• 25–44 52,021 27.2%
• 45–64 48,900 25.6%
• 65 and over 25,739 13.5%

Median household income

$85,117

90% interval $79,877–$90,357

+$25,816 vs MS · 2nd of 82

Below poverty line

9.6%

90% interval 8.1%–11.1%

−8.2 pp vs MS · 81st of 82

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.5%

−0.21 pp vs. state

County GDP

$9.8B

6.18% of state

Avg. annual pay

$47,958

Establishments

3,900

• Trade, transportation & utilities 31,502 43.0%
• Education & health services 12,503 17.1%
• Leisure & hospitality 10,614 14.5%
• Professional & business services 6,653 9.1%
• Manufacturing 3,270 4.5%
• Construction 2,762 3.8%
• Public administration 2,440 3.3%
• Financial activities 1,632 2.2%
• Other services 1,380 1.9%
• Information 326 0.4%
• Natural resources & mining 131 0.2%

Home ownership

77.9%

+7.9 pp vs MS · 28th of 82

Median gross rent

$1,451

+$497 vs MS · 1st of 82

Owner-occupied

55,278

Renter-occupied

15,708

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 75% 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 (Construction, $72,286/yr) pays 3.4× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $21,304/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 19 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.

• Republican 48,064 60.8%
• Democratic 29,023 36.7%
• Other / third-party 1,995 2.5%

• Spanish 8,075 4.5%
• Arabic 534 0.3%
• Chinese 455 0.3%
• Vietnamese 305 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 259 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 254 0.1%
• Tagalog 238 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 34 0.0%
• Korean 15 0.0%

Households

70,986

Family households

52,152

73.5% of households

Married couples w/ children

16,220

31.1% of families

Single-mother families

5,409

10.4% of families

Veterans

10,515

7.3% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 63,185 34.1%
• Black Protestant 15,670 8.5%
• Catholic 7,018 3.8%
• Mainline Protestant 6,902 3.7%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,410 1.3%

Health insured

91.7%

±0.8 pp

Uninsured

8.3%

±0.8 pp

77th of 82

With a disability

12.6%

±0.8 pp

78th of 82

Bachelor's or higher

29.0%

±1.3 pp

+3.9 pp vs MS · 8th of 82

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

9.1%

90% interval 8.3%–9.9% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

21st 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

Hernando

Traffic fatalities

21

14.64 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

18