Jury Pool Profile

Pearl River County, Mississippi

Republican +67 (2024)

Population: 56,781
Median household income: $56,535
Unemployment: 3.7%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 45,649 80.4%
Black or African American alone 7,003 12.3%
Asian alone 223 0.4%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 355 0.6%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 4 0.0%
Some other race alone 855 1.5%
Two or more races 2,692 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2,331 4.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 41.1

Under 18 12,947 22.8%
18–24 4,877 8.6%
25–44 13,216 23.3%
45–64 14,793 26.1%
65 and over 10,948 19.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.7%; -0.03 pp vs. state
County GDP: $1.5B; 0.97% of state
Avg. annual pay: $41,138
Establishments: 1,010

U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 3,596 30.9%
Trade, transportation & utilities 3,168 27.2%
Leisure & hospitality 1,508 13.0%
Manufacturing 685 5.9%
Construction 639 5.5%
Public administration 632 5.4%
Professional & business services 464 4.0%
Financial activities 414 3.6%
Other services 343 2.9%
Natural resources & mining 107 0.9%
Information 72 0.6%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 82.9%
Median gross rent: $887
Owner-occupied: 17,804
Renter-occupied: 3,685

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 24,671 votes cast

Republican 20,438 82.8%
Democratic 3,982 16.1%
Other / third-party 251 1.0%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

96.9% speak only English at home

Spanish 1,206 2.3%
Other Indo-European 152 0.3%
German 107 0.2%
Vietnamese 93 0.2%
French (incl. Cajun) 47 0.1%
Korean 18 0.0%
Other 10 0.0%
Arabic 9 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 21,489
Family households: 14,462; 67.3% of households
Married w/ children: 10,598
Single-mother households: 1,339
Veterans: 3,431; 7.8% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

63.0% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 24,977 44.5%
Black Protestant 3,896 6.9%
Catholic 3,891 6.9%
Mainline Protestant 1,783 3.2%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 813 1.4%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 86.9%
With a disability: 20.7%
Bachelor's or higher: 16.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 15th 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: Columbia, Monticello, Poplarville, Prentiss, Purvis

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Mississippi statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 18; 41.06 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 17

NHTSA FARS 2023