Oktibbeha County, Mississippi

• White (non-Hispanic) 28,309 54.7%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,253 2.4%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 18,305 35.4%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 1,652 3.2%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 2,087 4.0%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 81 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 18 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 66 0.1%

• Under 18 9,058 17.5%
• 18–24 16,187 31.3%
• 25–44 11,964 23.1%
• 45–64 8,239 15.9%
• 65 and over 6,323 12.2%

Median household income

$54,391

90% interval $48,565–$60,217

−$4,910 vs MS · 30th of 82

Below poverty line

19.4%

90% interval 15.5%–23.3%

+1.6 pp vs MS · 49th of 82

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.0%

+0.23 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.6B

1.67% of state

Avg. annual pay

$49,033

Establishments

1,092

• Education & health services 9,268 45.0%
• Leisure & hospitality 3,607 17.5%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 3,148 15.3%
• Professional & business services 1,197 5.8%
• Manufacturing 843 4.1%
• Financial activities 750 3.6%
• Public administration 720 3.5%
• Construction 482 2.3%
• Other services 406 2.0%
• Information 154 0.7%
• Natural resources & mining 36 0.2%

Home ownership

48.0%

−22.0 pp vs MS · 81st of 82

Median gross rent

$915

−$39 vs MS · 18th of 82

Owner-occupied

10,478

Renter-occupied

11,362

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 78% 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 (Information, $73,591/yr) pays 3.8× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $19,244/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 8,901 49.3%
• Democratic 8,851 49.0%
• Other / third-party 299 1.7%

• Spanish 586 1.2%
• Vietnamese 247 0.5%
• Chinese 198 0.4%
• Arabic 184 0.4%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 139 0.3%
• German or other West Germanic 37 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 36 0.1%
• Tagalog 24 0.0%
• Korean 9 0.0%

Households

21,840

Family households

11,105

50.8% of households

Married couples w/ children

2,695

24.3% of families

Single-mother families

1,649

14.8% of families

Veterans

2,191

5.1% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 14,124 27.3%
• Black Protestant 4,314 8.3%
• Mainline Protestant 4,277 8.3%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,223 2.4%
• Catholic 1,147 2.2%

Health insured

93.0%

±1.3 pp

Uninsured

7.0%

±1.3 pp

82nd of 82

With a disability

12.7%

±1.4 pp

77th of 82

Bachelor's or higher

47.0%

±3.3 pp

+21.9 pp vs MS · 2nd of 82

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

10.5%

90% interval 9.2%–11.8% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

16th 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

Columbus, Macon, Starkville, West Point

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

13

30.44 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

12