Panola County, Mississippi

• White (non-Hispanic) 15,269 46.5%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 686 2.1%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 15,825 48.2%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 164 0.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 727 2.2%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 11 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 104 0.3%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 22 0.1%

• Under 18 8,094 24.7%
• 18–24 2,865 8.7%
• 25–44 7,936 24.2%
• 45–64 8,187 25.0%
• 65 and over 5,726 17.5%

Median household income

$51,437

90% interval $48,410–$54,464

−$7,864 vs MS · 42nd of 82

Below poverty line

20.7%

90% interval 16.1%–25.3%

+2.9 pp vs MS · 33rd of 82

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.4%

+0.64 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.4B

0.9% of state

Avg. annual pay

$45,819

Establishments

673

• Trade, transportation & utilities 2,867 26.7%
• Education & health services 2,725 25.4%
• Manufacturing 1,558 14.5%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,090 10.2%
• Construction 731 6.8%
• Public administration 593 5.5%
• Financial activities 449 4.2%
• Professional & business services 434 4.0%
• Other services 138 1.3%
• Natural resources & mining 113 1.1%
• Information 39 0.4%

Home ownership

71.1%

+1.1 pp vs MS · 52nd of 82

Median gross rent

$874

−$80 vs MS · 22nd of 82

Owner-occupied

8,754

Renter-occupied

3,558

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 67% 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 (Manufacturing, $58,317/yr) pays 3.1× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $18,901/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 16 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 8,202 56.9%
• Democratic 6,061 42.0%
• Other / third-party 159 1.1%

• Spanish 485 1.6%
• Arabic 114 0.4%
• Vietnamese 20 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 9 0.0%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 7 0.0%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 1 0.0%

Households

12,312

Family households

7,993

64.9% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,499

18.8% of families

Single-mother families

1,204

15.1% of families

Veterans

1,105

4.5% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 10,294 31.0%
• Mainline Protestant 3,098 9.3%
• Black Protestant 2,940 8.9%
• Catholic 396 1.2%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 114 0.3%

Health insured

87.3%

±1.6 pp

Uninsured

12.7%

±1.6 pp

22nd of 82

With a disability

17.6%

±2 pp

55th of 82

Bachelor's or higher

17.7%

±2.3 pp

−7.4 pp vs MS · 44th of 82

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

12.1%

90% interval 10.8%–13.4% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

17th 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

Batesville, Sardis, Charleston, Sumner, Senatobia, Water Valley, Coffeeville

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

13

52.6 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

10