Lee County, Mississippi

• White (non-Hispanic) 51,855 62.5%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2,933 3.5%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 24,831 29.9%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 823 1.0%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 2,028 2.4%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 17 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 234 0.3%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 313 0.4%

• Under 18 20,728 25.0%
• 18–24 6,873 8.3%
• 25–44 21,556 26.0%
• 45–64 20,747 25.0%
• 65 and over 13,130 15.8%

Median household income

$61,826

90% interval $55,493–$68,159

+$2,525 vs MS · 12th of 82

Below poverty line

16.2%

90% interval 13.8%–18.6%

−1.6 pp vs MS · 65th of 82

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.3%

−0.41 pp vs. state

County GDP

$6.5B

4.09% of state

Avg. annual pay

$53,348

Establishments

2,698

• Education & health services 13,035 25.0%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 10,881 20.9%
• Manufacturing 9,409 18.1%
• Professional & business services 6,430 12.4%
• Leisure & hospitality 5,171 9.9%
• Financial activities 2,149 4.1%
• Construction 1,812 3.5%
• Public administration 1,385 2.7%
• Other services 955 1.8%
• Information 721 1.4%
• Natural resources & mining 97 0.2%

Home ownership

70.8%

+0.8 pp vs MS · 53rd of 82

Median gross rent

$957

+$3 vs MS · 13th of 82

Owner-occupied

23,067

Renter-occupied

9,524

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 64% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $78,064/yr) pays 3.8× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $20,489/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 19 workers, typical of an institutional-employer economy where large hospitals, plants, schools, and government agencies dominate. Expect many panelists to share an employer rather than work for themselves.

• Republican 24,339 68.9%
• Democratic 10,616 30.0%
• Other / third-party 383 1.1%

• Spanish 1,925 2.5%
• Tagalog 244 0.3%
• Arabic 181 0.2%
• Korean 158 0.2%
• Vietnamese 110 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 95 0.1%
• Chinese 78 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 74 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 71 0.1%

Households

32,591

Family households

22,139

67.9% of households

Married couples w/ children

6,098

27.5% of families

Single-mother families

2,397

10.8% of families

Veterans

3,362

5.4% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 35,402 42.5%
• Mainline Protestant 6,127 7.4%
• Black Protestant 4,232 5.1%
• Catholic 1,305 1.6%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,215 1.5%
• Orthodox 130 0.2%

Health insured

89.1%

±1.4 pp

Uninsured

10.9%

±1.4 pp

53rd of 82

With a disability

14.0%

±1.2 pp

73rd of 82

Bachelor's or higher

28.6%

±1.8 pp

+3.5 pp vs MS · 10th of 82

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

12.2%

90% interval 11.1%–13.3% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

1st Circuit Court District

Judges

4 (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

Aberdeen, Booneville, Corinth, Fulton, Iuka, Pontotoc, Tupelo

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

16

25.68 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

14