George County, Mississippi

• White (non-Hispanic) 21,414 85.1%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 786 3.1%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 1,811 7.2%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 33 0.1%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 913 3.6%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 28 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 185 0.7%

• Under 18 6,699 26.6%
• 18–24 2,008 8.0%
• 25–44 6,453 25.6%
• 45–64 6,265 24.9%
• 65 and over 3,745 14.9%

Median household income

$66,266

90% interval $59,389–$73,143

+$6,965 vs MS · 8th of 82

Below poverty line

14.1%

90% interval 10.8%–17.4%

−3.7 pp vs MS · 76th of 82

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.7%

+0.93 pp vs. state

County GDP

$652.6M

0.41% of state

Avg. annual pay

$46,055

Establishments

416

• Education & health services 1,606 30.0%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,430 26.7%
• Leisure & hospitality 627 11.7%
• Professional & business services 324 6.1%
• Manufacturing 310 5.8%
• Public administration 271 5.1%
• Financial activities 212 4.0%
• Information 6 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 89.4% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

82.1%

+12.1 pp vs MS · 11th of 82

Median gross rent

$844

−$110 vs MS · 28th of 82

Owner-occupied

7,638

Renter-occupied

1,664

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 68% 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, $73,105/yr) pays 4.3× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $17,178/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 13 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 9,858 89.1%
• Democratic 1,138 10.3%
• Other / third-party 73 0.7%

• Spanish 331 1.4%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 44 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 28 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 8 0.0%

Households

9,302

Family households

6,686

71.9% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,959

29.3% of families

Single-mother families

324

4.8% of families

Veterans

1,396

7.6% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 9,686 39.8%
• Black Protestant 704 2.9%
• Mainline Protestant 644 2.6%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 406 1.7%
• Catholic 157 0.6%

Health insured

87.5%

±2.4 pp

Uninsured

12.5%

±2.4 pp

23rd of 82

With a disability

20.8%

±2.7 pp

31st of 82

Bachelor's or higher

17.5%

±2.7 pp

−7.6 pp vs MS · 46th of 82

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

12.1%

90% interval 10.7%–13.5% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

19th 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

Leakesville, Lucedale, Pascagoula

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

9

48.73 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

9