Kemper County, Mississippi

• White (non-Hispanic) 2,900 33.2%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 106 1.2%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 5,187 59.4%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 296 3.4%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 240 2.7%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%

• Under 18 1,610 18.4%
• 18–24 1,136 13.0%
• 25–44 2,001 22.9%
• 45–64 2,056 23.6%
• 65 and over 1,926 22.1%

Median household income

$43,991

90% interval $39,063–$48,919

−$15,310 vs MS · 67th of 82

Below poverty line

25.4%

90% interval 19.4%–31.4%

+7.6 pp vs MS · 17th of 82

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.0%

+1.25 pp vs. state

County GDP

$358.7M

0.23% of state

Avg. annual pay

$45,275

Establishments

132

• Education & health services 728 41.6%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 305 17.4%
• Manufacturing 238 13.6%
• Public administration 181 10.4%
• Natural resources & mining 96 5.5%
• Construction 69 3.9%
• Professional & business services 45 2.6%
• Leisure & hospitality 6 0.3%

The sectors listed cover 95.4% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

79.0%

+9.0 pp vs MS · 25th of 82

Median gross rent

$677

−$277 vs MS · 63rd of 82

Owner-occupied

2,546

Renter-occupied

677

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 73% 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 (Construction, $74,383/yr) pays 3.6× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $20,477/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• 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 2,381 58.3%
• Republican 1,691 41.4%
• Other / third-party 14 0.3%

• Spanish 102 1.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 10 0.1%
• Tagalog 7 0.1%

Households

3,223

Family households

2,164

67.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

436

20.1% of families

Single-mother families

238

11.0% of families

Veterans

534

7.5% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 1,788 19.9%
• Mainline Protestant 1,585 17.6%
• Black Protestant 100 1.1%

Health insured

84.6%

±3.8 pp

Uninsured

15.4%

±3.8 pp

7th of 82

With a disability

20.1%

±3 pp

37th of 82

Bachelor's or higher

18.6%

±4.6 pp

−6.5 pp vs MS · 38th of 82

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

12.4%

90% interval 10.9%–13.9% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

10th 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

De Kalb, Meridian, Quitman, Waynesboro

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

3

42.14 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

3