Perry County, Mississippi

• White (non-Hispanic) 8,847 77.3%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 216 1.9%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 1,758 15.4%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 239 2.1%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 370 3.2%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 5 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 12 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 2 0.0%

• Under 18 2,507 21.9%
• 18–24 990 8.6%
• 25–44 2,668 23.3%
• 45–64 3,050 26.6%
• 65 and over 2,234 19.5%

Median household income

$53,764

90% interval $47,423–$60,105

−$5,537 vs MS · 33rd of 82

Below poverty line

17.8%

90% interval 13.6%–22.0%

+0.0 pp vs MS · 60th of 82

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.5%

+0.76 pp vs. state

County GDP

$439.7M

0.28% of state

Avg. annual pay

$49,624

Establishments

178

• Education & health services 744 33.5%
• Manufacturing 478 21.5%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 455 20.5%
• Public administration 183 8.2%
• Leisure & hospitality 82 3.7%
• Professional & business services 67 3.0%
• Other services 49 2.2%
• Information 2 0.1%
• Financial activities 1 0.0%

The sectors listed cover 92.8% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

81.5%

+11.5 pp vs MS · 14th of 82

Median gross rent

$755

−$199 vs MS · 47th of 82

Owner-occupied

3,789

Renter-occupied

858

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 76% 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 (Manufacturing, $96,382/yr) pays 5.7× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $17,040/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 12 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 4,425 79.9%
• Democratic 1,078 19.5%
• Other / third-party 36 0.6%

• Chinese 229 2.1%
• Spanish 117 1.1%
• Tagalog 5 0.0%

Households

4,647

Family households

2,657

57.2% of households

Married couples w/ children

593

22.3% of families

Single-mother families

240

9.0% of families

Veterans

654

7.5% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 5,644 49.0%
• Black Protestant 736 6.4%
• Mainline Protestant 326 2.8%

Health insured

84.2%

±3.1 pp

Uninsured

15.8%

±3.1 pp

4th of 82

With a disability

27.0%

±2.8 pp

5th of 82

Bachelor's or higher

12.9%

±2.6 pp

−12.2 pp vs MS · 70th of 82

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

12.7%

90% interval 11.2%–14.2% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

12th 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

Hattiesburg, New Augusta

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

10

111.83 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

7