Grenada County, Mississippi

• White (non-Hispanic) 10,678 50.3%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 102 0.5%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 9,489 44.7%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 795 3.7%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 7 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 146 0.7%

• Under 18 5,133 24.2%
• 18–24 1,751 8.3%
• 25–44 5,043 23.8%
• 45–64 5,301 25.0%
• 65 and over 3,989 18.8%

Median household income

$50,210

90% interval $44,769–$55,651

−$9,091 vs MS · 45th of 82

Below poverty line

19.4%

90% interval 15.3%–23.5%

+1.6 pp vs MS · 48th of 82

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.1%

+0.37 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.2B

0.74% of state

Avg. annual pay

$46,077

Establishments

596

• Manufacturing 2,714 28.0%
• Education & health services 1,961 20.2%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,866 19.2%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,151 11.9%
• Professional & business services 788 8.1%
• Public administration 446 4.6%
• Financial activities 325 3.4%
• Construction 231 2.4%
• Other services 124 1.3%
• Information 55 0.6%
• Natural resources & mining 37 0.4%

Home ownership

66.6%

−3.4 pp vs MS · 62nd of 82

Median gross rent

$807

−$147 vs MS · 35th of 82

Owner-occupied

5,636

Renter-occupied

2,828

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 67% 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 (Financial activities, $61,314/yr) pays 2.9× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $21,175/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• 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.

• Republican 5,651 57.9%
• Democratic 4,060 41.6%
• Other / third-party 55 0.6%

• French, Haitian, or Cajun 239 1.2%
• Spanish 124 0.6%
• Vietnamese 25 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 15 0.1%

Households

8,464

Family households

5,260

62.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,019

19.4% of families

Single-mother families

706

13.4% of families

Veterans

1,015

6.3% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 9,980 46.1%
• Black Protestant 2,012 9.3%
• Mainline Protestant 1,544 7.1%
• Catholic 500 2.3%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 135 0.6%

Health insured

89.4%

±2.1 pp

Uninsured

10.6%

±2.1 pp

57th of 82

With a disability

20.8%

±2.4 pp

32nd of 82

Bachelor's or higher

21.8%

±3.3 pp

−3.3 pp vs MS · 19th of 82

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

11.7%

90% interval 10.4%–13.0% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

5th 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

Ackerman, Carrollton, Vaiden, Grenada, Kosciusko, Louisville, Walthall, Winona

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

13

80.83 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

12