Jury Pool Profile

Jackson County, Mississippi

Republican +40 (2024)

Population: 144,437
Median household income: $64,756
Unemployment: 3.8%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 98,632 68.3%
Black or African American alone 29,659 20.5%
Asian alone 3,237 2.2%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 297 0.2%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 23 0.0%
Some other race alone 4,867 3.4%
Two or more races 7,722 5.3%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 10,560 7.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 39.7

Under 18 33,259 23.0%
18–24 11,318 7.8%
25–44 37,559 26.0%
45–64 37,952 26.3%
65 and over 24,349 16.9%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.8%; +0 pp vs. state
County GDP: $10.9B; 6.87% of state
Avg. annual pay: $59,641
Establishments: 2,762

U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Manufacturing 14,171 27.6%
Education & health services 10,808 21.1%
Trade, transportation & utilities 6,831 13.3%
Leisure & hospitality 5,634 11.0%
Professional & business services 4,655 9.1%
Public administration 3,156 6.2%
Construction 2,809 5.5%
Financial activities 1,472 2.9%
Other services 1,024 2.0%
Information 523 1.0%
Natural resources & mining 222 0.4%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 72.0%
Median gross rent: $1,087
Owner-occupied: 41,043
Renter-occupied: 15,984

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 52,410 votes cast

Republican 36,376 69.4%
Democratic 15,469 29.5%
Other / third-party 565 1.1%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

93.0% speak only English at home

Spanish 6,266 4.6%
Vietnamese 1,168 0.9%
Other Indo-European 494 0.4%
Tagalog 455 0.3%
Other 264 0.2%
French (incl. Cajun) 192 0.1%
German 190 0.1%
Chinese 176 0.1%
Korean 139 0.1%
Slavic languages 105 0.1%
Other Asian/Pacific 88 0.1%
Arabic 20 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 57,027
Family households: 37,864; 66.4% of households
Married w/ children: 26,500
Single-mother households: 4,323
Veterans: 11,426; 10.4% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

48.3% overall adherence rate

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%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 87.4%
With a disability: 21.0%
Bachelor's or higher: 24.9%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

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

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Mississippi statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 24; 21.59 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 22

NHTSA FARS 2023