Lauderdale County, Mississippi

• White (non-Hispanic) 35,996 50.3%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,823 2.5%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 29,158 40.8%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 521 0.7%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 3,301 4.6%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 205 0.3%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 19 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 481 0.7%

• Under 18 16,709 23.4%
• 18–24 5,898 8.2%
• 25–44 17,827 24.9%
• 45–64 17,729 24.8%
• 65 and over 13,341 18.7%

Median household income

$56,828

90% interval $51,459–$62,197

−$2,473 vs MS · 23rd of 82

Below poverty line

20.0%

90% interval 16.2%–23.8%

+2.2 pp vs MS · 39th of 82

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.9%

+0.13 pp vs. state

County GDP

$4.8B

3.06% of state

Avg. annual pay

$50,007

Establishments

1,870

• Education & health services 10,594 34.5%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 7,040 22.9%
• Leisure & hospitality 3,846 12.5%
• Professional & business services 2,566 8.4%
• Manufacturing 1,980 6.4%
• Public administration 1,460 4.8%
• Construction 1,184 3.9%
• Financial activities 1,065 3.5%
• Other services 622 2.0%
• Information 227 0.7%
• Natural resources & mining 144 0.5%

Home ownership

65.1%

−4.9 pp vs MS · 65th of 82

Median gross rent

$953

−$1 vs MS · 14th of 82

Owner-occupied

18,689

Renter-occupied

10,018

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 70% 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, $66,661/yr) pays 3.3× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $20,358/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 16,487 60.2%
• Democratic 10,677 39.0%
• Other / third-party 243 0.9%

• Spanish 1,110 1.7%
• Arabic 627 0.9%
• Chinese 133 0.2%
• Tagalog 55 0.1%
• Korean 46 0.1%
• Vietnamese 37 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 30 0.0%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 18 0.0%
• German or other West Germanic 2 0.0%

Households

28,707

Family households

18,035

62.8% of households

Married couples w/ children

3,625

20.1% of families

Single-mother families

2,567

14.2% of families

Veterans

4,331

8% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 36,788 50.4%
• Black Protestant 9,490 13.0%
• Mainline Protestant 6,339 8.7%
• Catholic 1,702 2.3%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,021 1.4%

Health insured

90.4%

±1.2 pp

Uninsured

9.6%

±1.2 pp

66th of 82

With a disability

18.1%

±1.2 pp

52nd of 82

Bachelor's or higher

23.6%

±1.8 pp

−1.5 pp vs MS · 16th of 82

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

12.5%

90% interval 11.2%–13.8% · 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

14

25.55 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

13