Franklin County, Mississippi

• White (non-Hispanic) 4,758 62.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 81 1.1%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 2,670 35.0%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 2 0.0%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 98 1.3%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 13 0.2%

• Under 18 1,764 23.1%
• 18–24 574 7.5%
• 25–44 1,740 22.8%
• 45–64 1,903 25.0%
• 65 and over 1,641 21.5%

Median household income

$53,267

90% interval $47,194–$59,340

−$6,034 vs MS · 35th of 82

Below poverty line

18.8%

90% interval 14.3%–23.3%

+1.0 pp vs MS · 52nd of 82

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.7%

+0.95 pp vs. state

County GDP

$252.1M

0.16% of state

Avg. annual pay

$49,540

Establishments

134

• Education & health services 430 27.9%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 415 27.0%
• Public administration 165 10.7%
• Natural resources & mining 112 7.3%
• Professional & business services 46 3.0%
• Financial activities 43 2.8%
• Other services 32 2.1%
• Information 4 0.3%

The sectors listed cover 81.0% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

81.7%

+11.7 pp vs MS · 13th of 82

Median gross rent

$725

Owner-occupied

2,511

Renter-occupied

563

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 66% 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, $97,446/yr) pays 5.9× the lowest (Information, $16,404/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 11 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 2,831 69.6%
• Democratic 1,213 29.8%
• Other / third-party 22 0.5%

• Spanish 5 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 5 0.1%
• Arabic 4 0.1%
• Vietnamese 2 0.0%

Households

3,074

Family households

2,164

70.4% of households

Married couples w/ children

446

20.6% of families

Single-mother families

344

15.9% of families

Veterans

399

6.8% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 4,461 58.1%
• Mainline Protestant 407 5.3%
• Black Protestant 352 4.6%

Health insured

90.9%

±3 pp

Uninsured

9.1%

±3 pp

73rd of 82

With a disability

20.1%

±3.4 pp

36th of 82

Bachelor's or higher

19.0%

±4.2 pp

−6.1 pp vs MS · 36th of 82

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

12.2%

90% interval 10.8%–13.6% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

6th 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

Liberty, Meadville, Natchez, Woodville

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

0

0 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

0