Montgomery County, Mississippi

• White (non-Hispanic) 4,985 51.9%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 21 0.2%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 4,283 44.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 1 0.0%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 286 3.0%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 26 0.3%

• Under 18 2,162 22.5%
• 18–24 694 7.2%
• 25–44 2,198 22.9%
• 45–64 2,385 24.8%
• 65 and over 2,163 22.5%

Median household income

$47,011

90% interval $41,415–$52,607

−$12,290 vs MS · 57th of 82

Below poverty line

22.8%

90% interval 17.7%–27.9%

+5.0 pp vs MS · 22nd of 82

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.9%

+0.18 pp vs. state

County GDP

$272.6M

0.17% of state

Avg. annual pay

$43,650

Establishments

232

• Education & health services 800 33.0%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 543 22.4%
• Leisure & hospitality 248 10.2%
• Public administration 153 6.3%
• Financial activities 99 4.1%
• Professional & business services 64 2.6%
• Information 8 0.3%

The sectors listed cover 79.0% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

75.8%

+5.8 pp vs MS · 38th of 82

Median gross rent

$734

−$220 vs MS · 52nd of 82

Owner-occupied

3,135

Renter-occupied

1,002

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 66% 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 (Financial activities, $56,885/yr) pays 4.5× the lowest (Information, $12,625/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 10 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 2,658 60.1%
• Democratic 1,737 39.3%
• Other / third-party 29 0.7%

• French, Haitian, or Cajun 30 0.3%
• Spanish 27 0.3%
• Vietnamese 1 0.0%

Households

4,137

Family households

2,541

61.4% of households

Married couples w/ children

554

21.8% of families

Single-mother families

307

12.1% of families

Veterans

413

5.6% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 5,778 58.8%
• Mainline Protestant 1,482 15.1%
• Black Protestant 602 6.1%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 136 1.4%
• Catholic 55 0.6%

Health insured

89.8%

±2.9 pp

Uninsured

10.2%

±2.9 pp

61st of 82

With a disability

18.7%

±3.1 pp

48th of 82

Bachelor's or higher

19.4%

±3.8 pp

−5.7 pp vs MS · 32nd of 82

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

12.9%

90% interval 11.4%–14.4% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

5th 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

Ackerman, Carrollton, Vaiden, Grenada, Kosciusko, Louisville, Walthall, Winona

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

1

13.44 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

1