Jasper County, Mississippi

• White (non-Hispanic) 7,140 44.5%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 126 0.8%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 8,355 52.0%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 41 0.3%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 397 2.5%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%

• Under 18 3,678 22.9%
• 18–24 1,345 8.4%
• 25–44 3,430 21.4%
• 45–64 4,168 26.0%
• 65 and over 3,438 21.4%

Median household income

$49,500

90% interval $43,640–$55,360

−$9,801 vs MS · 50th of 82

Below poverty line

19.6%

90% interval 15.2%–24.0%

+1.8 pp vs MS · 45th of 82

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.1%

+0.42 pp vs. state

County GDP

$656.1M

0.41% of state

Avg. annual pay

$49,567

Establishments

242

• Manufacturing 1,638 41.7%
• Education & health services 803 20.5%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 480 12.2%
• Public administration 236 6.0%
• Natural resources & mining 190 4.8%
• Leisure & hospitality 159 4.0%
• Construction 123 3.1%
• Professional & business services 99 2.5%
• Information 6 0.2%

The sectors listed cover 95.1% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

82.1%

+12.1 pp vs MS · 12th of 82

Median gross rent

$724

−$230 vs MS · 56th of 82

Owner-occupied

5,460

Renter-occupied

1,187

• 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 (Natural resources & mining, $87,658/yr) pays 6.5× the lowest (Information, $13,568/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 16 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 4,118 52.2%
• Democratic 3,722 47.2%
• Other / third-party 50 0.6%

• Spanish 31 0.2%
• Tagalog 3 0.0%
• German or other West Germanic 2 0.0%

Households

6,647

Family households

4,178

62.9% of households

Married couples w/ children

847

20.3% of families

Single-mother families

534

12.8% of families

Veterans

759

6.1% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 5,472 33.4%
• Mainline Protestant 1,328 8.1%
• Black Protestant 522 3.2%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 298 1.8%
• Catholic 15 0.1%

Health insured

91.5%

±2 pp

Uninsured

8.5%

±2 pp

76th of 82

With a disability

23.1%

±2.9 pp

16th of 82

Bachelor's or higher

12.2%

±2.1 pp

−12.9 pp vs MS · 74th of 82

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

11.5%

90% interval 10.1%–12.9% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

13th Circuit Court District

Judges

2 (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

Bay Springs, Paulding, Collins, Mendenhall, Raleigh

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

4

32.31 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

4