Monroe County, Mississippi

• White (non-Hispanic) 22,368 66.3%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 535 1.6%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 10,024 29.7%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 107 0.3%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 651 1.9%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 10 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 16 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 36 0.1%

• Under 18 7,551 22.4%
• 18–24 2,664 7.9%
• 25–44 7,930 23.5%
• 45–64 8,709 25.8%
• 65 and over 6,893 20.4%

Median household income

$49,747

90% interval $45,185–$54,309

−$9,554 vs MS · 48th of 82

Below poverty line

18.2%

90% interval 15.0%–21.4%

+0.4 pp vs MS · 58th of 82

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.6%

+0.85 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.3B

0.83% of state

Avg. annual pay

$53,622

Establishments

662

• Education & health services 2,396 26.4%
• Manufacturing 2,326 25.6%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,523 16.8%
• Construction 758 8.3%
• Leisure & hospitality 739 8.1%
• Public administration 576 6.3%
• Professional & business services 295 3.2%
• Financial activities 190 2.1%
• Other services 137 1.5%
• Natural resources & mining 86 0.9%
• Information 55 0.6%

Home ownership

76.3%

+6.3 pp vs MS · 35th of 82

Median gross rent

$768

−$186 vs MS · 42nd of 82

Owner-occupied

10,605

Renter-occupied

3,290

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 69% 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.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Construction, $84,184/yr) pays 5.0× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $16,988/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 14 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 10,861 67.6%
• Democratic 5,090 31.7%
• Other / third-party 118 0.7%

• Spanish 392 1.2%
• Vietnamese 94 0.3%
• Tagalog 37 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 13 0.0%
• German or other West Germanic 11 0.0%
• Arabic 1 0.0%

Households

13,895

Family households

9,549

68.7% of households

Married couples w/ children

2,070

21.7% of families

Single-mother families

1,171

12.3% of families

Veterans

2,007

7.7% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 13,008 38.1%
• Mainline Protestant 3,150 9.2%
• Black Protestant 1,274 3.7%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 394 1.2%
• Catholic 311 0.9%

Health insured

90.2%

±1.5 pp

Uninsured

9.8%

±1.5 pp

63rd of 82

With a disability

16.9%

±1.6 pp

60th of 82

Bachelor's or higher

16.4%

±2 pp

−8.7 pp vs MS · 53rd of 82

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

13.4%

90% interval 12.0%–14.8% · 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

7

26.72 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

7