Harrison County, Mississippi

• White (non-Hispanic) 128,273 60.8%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 14,638 6.9%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 49,235 23.3%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 5,202 2.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 12,477 5.9%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 248 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 61 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 757 0.4%

• Under 18 49,789 23.6%
• 18–24 18,498 8.8%
• 25–44 55,528 26.3%
• 45–64 52,026 24.7%
• 65 and over 35,050 16.6%

Median household income

$63,362

90% interval $59,605–$67,119

+$4,061 vs MS · 9th of 82

Below poverty line

15.9%

90% interval 13.8%–18.0%

−1.9 pp vs MS · 69th of 82

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.5%

−0.26 pp vs. state

County GDP

$12.8B

8.11% of state

Avg. annual pay

$50,773

Establishments

5,211

• Leisure & hospitality 23,591 26.2%
• Education & health services 22,211 24.6%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 17,612 19.5%
• Professional & business services 7,465 8.3%
• Public administration 5,777 6.4%
• Construction 3,818 4.2%
• Financial activities 3,759 4.2%
• Information 71 0.1%
• Other services 15 0.0%

The sectors listed cover 93.6% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

62.2%

−7.8 pp vs MS · 70th of 82

Median gross rent

$1,115

+$161 vs MS · 5th of 82

Owner-occupied

51,826

Renter-occupied

31,532

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 70% 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, $68,444/yr) pays 2.7× the lowest (Information, $25,822/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 17 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 48,497 63.9%
• Democratic 26,555 35.0%
• Other / third-party 871 1.1%

• Spanish 8,415 4.2%
• Vietnamese 1,708 0.9%
• Tagalog 742 0.4%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 616 0.3%
• German or other West Germanic 447 0.2%
• Chinese 195 0.1%
• Arabic 183 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 180 0.1%
• Korean 152 0.1%

Households

83,358

Family households

53,173

63.8% of households

Married couples w/ children

13,042

24.5% of families

Single-mother families

8,262

15.5% of families

Veterans

20,597

13.3% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 38,795 18.6%
• Catholic 28,459 13.6%
• Mainline Protestant 11,662 5.6%
• Black Protestant 9,544 4.6%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 3,813 1.8%
• Orthodox 70 0.0%

Health insured

86.9%

±0.9 pp

Uninsured

13.1%

±0.9 pp

13th of 82

With a disability

19.9%

±0.7 pp

41st of 82

Bachelor's or higher

27.5%

±1.2 pp

+2.4 pp vs MS · 13th of 82

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

12.7%

90% interval 11.6%–13.8% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

2nd Circuit Court District

Judges

4 (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

Bay St. Louis, Gulfport, Biloxi, Wiggins

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

24

14.9 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

23