Lafayette County, Mississippi

• White (non-Hispanic) 39,956 68.5%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2,151 3.7%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 13,164 22.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 1,292 2.2%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,581 2.7%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 58 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 125 0.2%

• Under 18 10,537 18.1%
• 18–24 13,816 23.7%
• 25–44 14,738 25.3%
• 45–64 11,255 19.3%
• 65 and over 7,981 13.7%

Median household income

$67,571

90% interval $61,003–$74,139

+$8,270 vs MS · 7th of 82

Below poverty line

17.9%

90% interval 15.1%–20.7%

+0.1 pp vs MS · 59th of 82

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.0%

−0.74 pp vs. state

County GDP

$3.2B

2% of state

Avg. annual pay

$52,758

Establishments

1,588

• Education & health services 9,537 36.7%
• Leisure & hospitality 5,331 20.5%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 3,992 15.4%
• Professional & business services 1,981 7.6%
• Manufacturing 1,570 6.0%
• Public administration 1,168 4.5%
• Financial activities 1,017 3.9%
• Information 14 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 94.8% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

63.8%

−6.2 pp vs MS · 68th of 82

Median gross rent

$1,085

+$131 vs MS · 7th of 82

Owner-occupied

12,145

Renter-occupied

6,899

• 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 (Financial activities, $74,328/yr) pays 3.2× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $23,405/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• 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 14,050 60.0%
• Democratic 8,956 38.3%
• Other / third-party 403 1.7%

• Spanish 737 1.3%
• Vietnamese 246 0.4%
• Chinese 217 0.4%
• German or other West Germanic 203 0.4%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 173 0.3%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 138 0.2%
• Arabic 98 0.2%
• Tagalog 11 0.0%
• Korean 5 0.0%

Households

19,044

Family households

11,421

60.0% of households

Married couples w/ children

3,364

29.5% of families

Single-mother families

1,102

9.6% of families

Veterans

2,172

4.5% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 9,837 17.6%
• Mainline Protestant 5,158 9.2%
• Black Protestant 4,844 8.7%
• Catholic 1,089 2.0%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,074 1.9%

Health insured

90.7%

±1.3 pp

Uninsured

9.3%

±1.3 pp

70th of 82

With a disability

11.5%

±1.1 pp

80th of 82

Bachelor's or higher

46.5%

±2.9 pp

+21.4 pp vs MS · 3rd of 82

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

11.7%

90% interval 10.4%–13.0% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

3rd 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

Ashland, Holly Springs, Houston, Okolona, New Albany, Oxford, Pittsboro, Ripley

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

13

27.2 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

13