Lamar County, Mississippi

• White (non-Hispanic) 46,410 70.6%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2,419 3.7%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 14,289 21.7%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 611 0.9%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,681 2.6%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 47 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 256 0.4%

• Under 18 15,975 24.3%
• 18–24 5,445 8.3%
• 25–44 18,510 28.2%
• 45–64 15,721 23.9%
• 65 and over 10,062 15.3%

Median household income

$79,568

90% interval $74,218–$84,918

+$20,267 vs MS · 4th of 82

Below poverty line

11.6%

90% interval 9.4%–13.8%

−6.2 pp vs MS · 79th of 82

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.2%

−0.55 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.8B

1.76% of state

Avg. annual pay

$44,605

Establishments

1,606

• Trade, transportation & utilities 6,168 29.4%
• Education & health services 5,403 25.8%
• Leisure & hospitality 3,568 17.0%
• Professional & business services 1,814 8.7%
• Financial activities 1,367 6.5%
• Construction 913 4.4%
• Public administration 522 2.5%
• Manufacturing 464 2.2%
• Other services 436 2.1%
• Information 182 0.9%
• Natural resources & mining 126 0.6%

Home ownership

69.5%

−0.5 pp vs MS · 57th of 82

Median gross rent

$1,126

+$172 vs MS · 4th of 82

Owner-occupied

17,647

Renter-occupied

7,734

• 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 (Manufacturing, $73,728/yr) pays 3.4× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $21,799/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.

• Republican 20,775 73.7%
• Democratic 7,038 25.0%
• Other / third-party 358 1.3%

• Spanish 1,474 2.4%
• Korean 88 0.1%
• Chinese 82 0.1%
• Tagalog 77 0.1%
• Vietnamese 48 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 33 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 11 0.0%
• Arabic 3 0.0%

Households

25,381

Family households

17,705

69.8% of households

Married couples w/ children

5,646

31.9% of families

Single-mother families

1,952

11.0% of families

Veterans

3,422

6.9% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 23,224 36.2%
• Mainline Protestant 3,202 5.0%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,435 2.2%
• Black Protestant 776 1.2%
• Catholic 390 0.6%

Health insured

88.9%

±1.6 pp

Uninsured

11.1%

±1.6 pp

47th of 82

With a disability

15.9%

±1.2 pp

66th of 82

Bachelor's or higher

34.5%

±2.6 pp

+9.4 pp vs MS · 4th of 82

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

11.7%

90% interval 10.5%–12.9% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

15th 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

Columbia, Monticello, Poplarville, Prentiss, Purvis

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

14

28.15 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

12