Pearl River County, Mississippi

• White (non-Hispanic) 45,437 79.1%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2,493 4.3%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 6,888 12.0%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 199 0.3%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,992 3.5%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 73 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 376 0.7%

• Under 18 13,147 22.9%
• 18–24 4,976 8.7%
• 25–44 13,157 22.9%
• 45–64 14,932 26.0%
• 65 and over 11,246 19.6%

Median household income

$56,958

90% interval $51,686–$62,230

−$2,343 vs MS · 22nd of 82

Below poverty line

16.5%

90% interval 13.5%–19.5%

−1.3 pp vs MS · 64th of 82

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.5%

−0.19 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.5B

0.97% of state

Avg. annual pay

$42,628

Establishments

1,041

• Education & health services 3,705 31.6%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 3,146 26.8%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,535 13.1%
• Construction 661 5.6%
• Manufacturing 656 5.6%
• Public administration 638 5.4%
• Professional & business services 501 4.3%
• Financial activities 412 3.5%
• Other services 275 2.3%
• Natural resources & mining 133 1.1%
• Information 64 0.5%

Home ownership

80.4%

+10.4 pp vs MS · 17th of 82

Median gross rent

$906

−$48 vs MS · 19th of 82

Owner-occupied

17,589

Renter-occupied

4,291

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 72% 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 (Construction, $64,766/yr) pays 3.7× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $17,287/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 11 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 20,438 82.8%
• Democratic 3,982 16.1%
• Other / third-party 251 1.0%

• Spanish 1,301 2.4%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 64 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 34 0.1%
• Korean 15 0.0%
• Arabic 12 0.0%
• Tagalog 4 0.0%

Households

21,880

Family households

14,770

67.5% of households

Married couples w/ children

3,432

23.2% of families

Single-mother families

1,582

10.7% of families

Veterans

3,651

8.2% of civilians 18+

• 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%

Health insured

87.1%

±1.4 pp

Uninsured

12.9%

±1.4 pp

19th of 82

With a disability

21.2%

±1.6 pp

29th of 82

Bachelor's or higher

17.0%

±1.8 pp

−8.1 pp vs MS · 51st of 82

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

13.0%

90% interval 11.7%–14.3% · Census SAHIE

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

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

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

15

33.85 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

13