Holmes County, Mississippi

• White (non-Hispanic) 2,368 14.6%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 64 0.4%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 13,116 81.0%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 46 0.3%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 575 3.6%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 19 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 3 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%

• Under 18 3,959 24.5%
• 18–24 1,734 10.7%
• 25–44 3,948 24.4%
• 45–64 3,835 23.7%
• 65 and over 2,715 16.8%

Median household income

$38,543

90% interval $35,528–$41,558

−$20,758 vs MS · 79th of 82

Below poverty line

34.3%

90% interval 26.6%–42.0%

+16.5 pp vs MS · 3rd of 82

Unemployment (12-mo)

6.6%

+2.89 pp vs. state

County GDP

$334.2M

0.21% of state

Avg. annual pay

$44,669

Establishments

288

• Education & health services 1,336 45.2%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 494 16.7%
• Manufacturing 359 12.1%
• Public administration 301 10.2%
• Leisure & hospitality 105 3.5%
• Financial activities 75 2.5%
• Information 8 0.3%

The sectors listed cover 90.5% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

61.0%

−9.0 pp vs MS · 73rd of 82

Median gross rent

$590

−$364 vs MS · 80th of 82

Owner-occupied

3,757

Renter-occupied

2,400

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 74% 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 (Financial activities, $94,911/yr) pays 5.3× the lowest (Information, $17,988/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 10 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Democratic 5,420 80.5%
• Republican 1,243 18.5%
• Other / third-party 67 1.0%

• Spanish 45 0.3%
• German or other West Germanic 5 0.0%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 4 0.0%
• Chinese 4 0.0%

Households

6,157

Family households

3,891

63.2% of households

Married couples w/ children

436

11.2% of families

Single-mother families

969

24.9% of families

Veterans

519

4.2% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 4,082 24.0%
• Black Protestant 2,754 16.2%
• Mainline Protestant 1,222 7.2%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 232 1.4%
• Catholic 9 0.1%

Health insured

89.1%

±1.9 pp

Uninsured

10.9%

±1.9 pp

52nd of 82

With a disability

30.1%

±2.9 pp

2nd of 82

Bachelor's or higher

13.9%

±2.4 pp

−11.2 pp vs MS · 64th of 82

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

12.1%

90% interval 10.6%–13.6% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

22nd Circuit Court District

Judges

1 (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

Belzoni, Lexington, Yazoo City

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

6

49.05 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

6