Itawamba County, Mississippi

• White (non-Hispanic) 21,189 88.2%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 446 1.9%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 1,240 5.2%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 111 0.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 903 3.8%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 19 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 13 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 115 0.5%

• Under 18 5,112 21.3%
• 18–24 2,863 11.9%
• 25–44 5,765 24.0%
• 45–64 6,097 25.4%
• 65 and over 4,199 17.5%

Median household income

$58,396

90% interval $51,800–$64,992

−$905 vs MS · 17th of 82

Below poverty line

18.7%

90% interval 15.7%–21.7%

+0.9 pp vs MS · 54th of 82

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.3%

−0.38 pp vs. state

County GDP

$733.0M

0.46% of state

Avg. annual pay

$44,410

Establishments

404

• Manufacturing 1,766 29.5%
• Education & health services 1,532 25.6%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,082 18.1%
• Leisure & hospitality 464 7.8%
• Public administration 267 4.5%
• Financial activities 138 2.3%
• Professional & business services 131 2.2%

The sectors listed cover 89.9% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

79.0%

+9.0 pp vs MS · 24th of 82

Median gross rent

$811

−$143 vs MS · 34th of 82

Owner-occupied

7,595

Renter-occupied

2,024

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 73% 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 (Manufacturing, $53,000/yr) pays 2.6× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $20,134/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 15 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 9,523 89.7%
• Democratic 1,027 9.7%
• Other / third-party 71 0.7%

• Spanish 201 0.9%
• German or other West Germanic 13 0.1%
• Arabic 5 0.0%

Households

9,619

Family households

6,170

64.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,779

28.8% of families

Single-mother families

615

10.0% of families

Veterans

1,086

5.7% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 6,824 28.6%
• Black Protestant 2,744 11.5%
• Mainline Protestant 1,354 5.7%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 146 0.6%
• Catholic 72 0.3%

Health insured

91.0%

±1.9 pp

Uninsured

9.0%

±1.9 pp

74th of 82

With a disability

14.6%

±1.9 pp

72nd of 82

Bachelor's or higher

16.0%

±2.7 pp

−9.1 pp vs MS · 55th of 82

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

12.2%

90% interval 10.9%–13.5% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

1st 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

Aberdeen, Booneville, Corinth, Fulton, Iuka, Pontotoc, Tupelo

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

5

26.42 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

4