Hinds County, Mississippi

• White (non-Hispanic) 50,098 22.9%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4,690 2.1%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 156,710 71.7%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 1,833 0.8%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 4,344 2.0%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 365 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 11 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 482 0.2%

• Under 18 51,293 23.5%
• 18–24 23,002 10.5%
• 25–44 56,884 26.0%
• 45–64 51,652 23.6%
• 65 and over 35,702 16.3%

Median household income

$51,926

90% interval $47,818–$56,034

−$7,375 vs MS · 41st of 82

Below poverty line

22.2%

90% interval 19.5%–24.9%

+4.4 pp vs MS · 24th of 82

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.9%

+0.14 pp vs. state

County GDP

$15.4B

9.76% of state

Avg. annual pay

$61,510

Establishments

5,706

• Education & health services 43,922 40.1%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 15,682 14.3%
• Professional & business services 11,749 10.7%
• Public administration 11,430 10.4%
• Leisure & hospitality 8,450 7.7%
• Financial activities 5,548 5.1%
• Manufacturing 4,549 4.2%
• Construction 4,196 3.8%
• Other services 2,307 2.1%
• Information 1,095 1.0%
• Natural resources & mining 537 0.5%

Home ownership

58.3%

−11.7 pp vs MS · 75th of 82

Median gross rent

$1,061

+$107 vs MS · 8th of 82

Owner-occupied

52,263

Renter-occupied

37,315

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 65% 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, $85,802/yr) pays 3.9× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $22,078/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.

• Democratic 62,840 72.4%
• Republican 22,816 26.3%
• Other / third-party 1,174 1.4%

• Spanish 4,176 2.0%
• Vietnamese 378 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 232 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 219 0.1%
• Arabic 218 0.1%
• Chinese 198 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 109 0.1%
• Korean 79 0.0%
• Tagalog 51 0.0%

Households

89,578

Family households

52,497

58.6% of households

Married couples w/ children

9,228

17.6% of families

Single-mother families

10,512

20.0% of families

Veterans

9,612

5.8% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 93,027 40.8%
• Black Protestant 45,089 19.8%
• Mainline Protestant 21,717 9.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 7,085 3.1%
• Catholic 7,055 3.1%
• Orthodox 275 0.1%

Health insured

87.1%

±0.7 pp

Uninsured

12.9%

±0.7 pp

18th of 82

With a disability

15.5%

±0.7 pp

68th of 82

Bachelor's or higher

31.2%

±1.3 pp

+6.1 pp vs MS · 6th of 82

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

13.3%

90% interval 12.2%–14.4% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

7th 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

Jackson, Raymond

Traffic fatalities

59

35.28 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

53