Jackson County, Mississippi

• White (non-Hispanic) 95,941 66.1%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 11,070 7.6%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 27,386 18.9%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 3,049 2.1%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 6,262 4.3%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 625 0.4%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 17 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 899 0.6%

• Under 18 33,197 22.9%
• 18–24 11,408 7.9%
• 25–44 37,577 25.9%
• 45–64 38,000 26.2%
• 65 and over 25,067 17.3%

Median household income

$69,544

90% interval $65,188–$73,900

+$10,243 vs MS · 5th of 82

Below poverty line

13.8%

90% interval 11.6%–16.0%

−4.0 pp vs MS · 78th of 82

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.5%

−0.17 pp vs. state

County GDP

$10.9B

6.87% of state

Avg. annual pay

$61,859

Establishments

2,827

• Manufacturing 13,813 27.6%
• Education & health services 10,205 20.4%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 6,798 13.6%
• Leisure & hospitality 5,669 11.3%
• Professional & business services 4,938 9.9%
• Public administration 3,135 6.3%
• Construction 2,283 4.6%
• Financial activities 1,492 3.0%
• Other services 1,045 2.1%
• Information 470 0.9%
• Natural resources & mining 248 0.5%

Home ownership

72.7%

+2.7 pp vs MS · 47th of 82

Median gross rent

$1,101

+$147 vs MS · 6th of 82

Owner-occupied

41,889

Renter-occupied

15,758

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 62% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Natural resources & mining, $94,953/yr) pays 4.4× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $21,693/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 18 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 36,376 69.4%
• Democratic 15,469 29.5%
• Other / third-party 565 1.1%

• Spanish 6,405 4.7%
• Vietnamese 869 0.6%
• Tagalog 379 0.3%
• Chinese 256 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 202 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 159 0.1%
• Korean 37 0.0%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 20 0.0%
• Arabic 20 0.0%

Households

57,647

Family households

38,418

66.6% of households

Married couples w/ children

10,525

27.4% of families

Single-mother families

4,205

10.9% of families

Veterans

11,491

10.4% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 45,777 32.0%
• Mainline Protestant 8,749 6.1%
• Catholic 8,292 5.8%
• Black Protestant 4,202 2.9%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,232 1.6%

Health insured

88.5%

±0.9 pp

Uninsured

11.5%

±0.9 pp

37th of 82

With a disability

21.5%

±1.1 pp

26th of 82

Bachelor's or higher

26.7%

±1.4 pp

+1.6 pp vs MS · 15th of 82

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

11.3%

90% interval 10.3%–12.3% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

19th Circuit Court District

Judges

3 (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

Leakesville, Lucedale, Pascagoula

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

26

23.2 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

24