Jones County, Mississippi

• White (non-Hispanic) 41,781 62.9%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4,177 6.3%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 18,768 28.2%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 256 0.4%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,301 2.0%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 120 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 69 0.1%

• Under 18 16,685 25.1%
• 18–24 6,195 9.3%
• 25–44 16,112 24.2%
• 45–64 15,629 23.5%
• 65 and over 11,851 17.8%

Median household income

$53,046

90% interval $48,777–$57,315

−$6,255 vs MS · 36th of 82

Below poverty line

19.2%

90% interval 15.9%–22.5%

+1.4 pp vs MS · 50th of 82

Unemployment (12-mo)

2.9%

−0.86 pp vs. state

County GDP

$3.6B

2.28% of state

Avg. annual pay

$54,231

Establishments

1,442

• Manufacturing 8,502 29.6%
• Education & health services 7,100 24.8%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 5,050 17.6%
• Leisure & hospitality 2,468 8.6%
• Professional & business services 1,289 4.5%
• Public administration 979 3.4%
• Financial activities 816 2.8%
• Information 20 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 91.4% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

75.1%

+5.1 pp vs MS · 40th of 82

Median gross rent

$869

−$85 vs MS · 23rd of 82

Owner-occupied

18,743

Renter-occupied

6,214

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 72% 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 (Professional & business services, $75,297/yr) pays 3.9× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $19,268/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 20 workers, typical of an institutional-employer economy where large hospitals, plants, schools, and government agencies dominate. Expect many panelists to share an employer rather than work for themselves.

• Republican 20,265 73.0%
• Democratic 7,272 26.2%
• Other / third-party 218 0.8%

• Spanish 2,901 4.7%
• Vietnamese 78 0.1%
• Tagalog 39 0.1%
• Chinese 29 0.0%
• Arabic 28 0.0%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 19 0.0%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 11 0.0%
• German or other West Germanic 10 0.0%

Households

24,957

Family households

17,035

68.3% of households

Married couples w/ children

4,436

26.0% of families

Single-mother families

2,066

12.1% of families

Veterans

3,043

6.1% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 38,576 57.4%
• Black Protestant 6,174 9.2%
• Mainline Protestant 2,522 3.8%
• Catholic 1,996 3.0%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,193 1.8%

Health insured

88.1%

±1.5 pp

Uninsured

11.9%

±1.5 pp

32nd of 82

With a disability

17.5%

±1.5 pp

56th of 82

Bachelor's or higher

20.7%

±1.8 pp

−4.4 pp vs MS · 23rd of 82

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

13.3%

90% interval 12.0%–14.6% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

18th 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

Laurel, Ellisville

Traffic fatalities

16

32.14 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

15