Jefferson County, Mississippi

• White (non-Hispanic) 929 13.1%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 143 2.0%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 5,857 82.9%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 35 0.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 99 1.4%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 5 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%

• Under 18 1,455 20.6%
• 18–24 772 10.9%
• 25–44 1,556 22.0%
• 45–64 1,858 26.3%
• 65 and over 1,427 20.2%

Median household income

$39,950

90% interval $35,473–$44,427

−$19,351 vs MS · 74th of 82

Below poverty line

30.5%

90% interval 23.2%–37.8%

+12.7 pp vs MS · 11th of 82

Unemployment (12-mo)

9.4%

+5.71 pp vs. state

County GDP

$141.4M

0.09% of state

Avg. annual pay

$47,083

Establishments

75

• Education & health services 512 52.5%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 192 19.7%
• Public administration 163 16.7%
• Professional & business services 36 3.7%
• Financial activities 23 2.4%
• Information 2 0.2%

The sectors listed cover 95.2% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

82.9%

+12.9 pp vs MS · 7th of 82

Median gross rent

$448

−$506 vs MS · 81st of 82

Owner-occupied

2,068

Renter-occupied

426

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 89% 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, $72,926/yr) pays 4.8× the lowest (Information, $15,238/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 13 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 2,727 82.7%
• Republican 541 16.4%
• Other / third-party 31 0.9%

• Spanish 81 1.2%

Households

2,494

Family households

1,730

69.4% of households

Married couples w/ children

88

5.1% of families

Single-mother families

295

17.1% of families

Veterans

266

4.7% of civilians 18+

• Black Protestant 906 12.5%
• Evangelical Protestant 687 9.5%
• Mainline Protestant 562 7.7%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 436 6.0%
• Catholic 92 1.3%

Health insured

89.3%

±3.4 pp

Uninsured

10.7%

±3.4 pp

55th of 82

With a disability

13.1%

±3.1 pp

76th of 82

Bachelor's or higher

13.4%

±3.8 pp

−11.7 pp vs MS · 68th of 82

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

12.0%

90% interval 10.5%–13.5% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

23rd 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

Fayette, Hazlehurst, Port Gibson

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

1

17.82 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

1