Jury Pool Profile
Lauderdale County, Mississippi
Republican +21 (2024)
- Population
- 71,984
- Median household income
- $50,033
- Unemployment
- 4.0%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 37,119 51.6%
- Black or African American alone 30,200 42.0%
- Asian alone 536 0.7%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 141 0.2%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 12 0.0%
- Some other race alone 1,100 1.5%
- Two or more races 2,876 4.0%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,782 2.5%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 39.5
- Under 18 16,948 23.5%
- 18–24 5,889 8.2%
- 25–44 18,044 25.1%
- 45–64 17,982 25.0%
- 65 and over 13,121 18.2%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 4.0%
- +0.21 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $4.8B
- 3.06% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $47,153
- Establishments
- 1,889
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 10,550 34.0%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 7,030 22.6%
- Leisure & hospitality 3,934 12.7%
- Professional & business services 2,889 9.3%
- Manufacturing 2,066 6.7%
- Public administration 1,444 4.7%
- Financial activities 1,104 3.6%
- Construction 1,049 3.4%
- Other services 627 2.0%
- Information 235 0.8%
- Natural resources & mining 113 0.4%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 63.2%
- Median gross rent
- $897
- Owner-occupied
- 18,053
- Renter-occupied
- 10,500
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 27,407 votes cast
- Republican 16,487 60.2%
- Democratic 10,677 39.0%
- Other / third-party 243 0.9%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
96.5% speak only English at home
- Spanish 1,112 1.6%
- Arabic 324 0.5%
- Other Asian/Pacific 257 0.4%
- Other Indo-European 214 0.3%
- Chinese 159 0.2%
- Other 109 0.2%
- Tagalog 68 0.1%
- French (incl. Cajun) 49 0.1%
- Vietnamese 35 0.1%
- German 16 0.0%
- Slavic languages 16 0.0%
- Korean 11 0.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 28,553
- Family households
- 18,485
- 64.7% of households
- Married w/ children
- 11,319
- Single-mother households
- 2,985
- Veterans
- 4,445
- 8.2% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
75.8% overall adherence rate
- 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%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 89.8%
- With a disability
- 17.9%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 21.7%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- 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 countys.
Traffic safety context
Mississippi statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 20
- 36.34 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 17
NHTSA FARS 2023