Pike County, Mississippi

• White (non-Hispanic) 16,394 41.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 667 1.7%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 21,220 53.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 187 0.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 984 2.5%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 130 0.3%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 20 0.1%

• Under 18 10,100 25.5%
• 18–24 3,822 9.7%
• 25–44 9,165 23.1%
• 45–64 9,415 23.8%
• 65 and over 7,100 17.9%

Median household income

$46,164

90% interval $41,171–$51,157

−$13,137 vs MS · 61st of 82

Below poverty line

21.4%

90% interval 16.6%–26.2%

+3.6 pp vs MS · 30th of 82

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.6%

+0.87 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.6B

0.98% of state

Avg. annual pay

$43,446

Establishments

1,031

• Education & health services 3,829 26.1%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 3,259 22.2%
• Manufacturing 2,581 17.6%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,679 11.5%
• Professional & business services 773 5.3%
• Public administration 674 4.6%
• Financial activities 581 4.0%
• Construction 561 3.8%
• Natural resources & mining 341 2.3%
• Other services 266 1.8%
• Information 112 0.8%

Home ownership

66.8%

−3.2 pp vs MS · 61st of 82

Median gross rent

$919

−$35 vs MS · 17th of 82

Owner-occupied

10,023

Renter-occupied

4,984

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 66% 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 (Natural resources & mining, $61,755/yr) pays 3.7× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $16,667/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 14 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 7,943 51.3%
• Democratic 7,402 47.8%
• Other / third-party 140 0.9%

• Spanish 442 1.2%
• Korean 50 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 41 0.1%
• Chinese 38 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 23 0.1%
• Vietnamese 14 0.0%
• Tagalog 1 0.0%

Households

15,007

Family households

9,140

60.9% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,438

15.7% of families

Single-mother families

1,966

21.5% of families

Veterans

1,651

5.6% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 18,759 46.5%
• Black Protestant 4,404 10.9%
• Mainline Protestant 2,149 5.3%
• Catholic 1,412 3.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 829 2.1%
• Orthodox 28 0.1%

Health insured

87.1%

±2.8 pp

Uninsured

12.9%

±2.8 pp

20th of 82

With a disability

19.4%

±1.7 pp

43rd of 82

Bachelor's or higher

15.3%

±2.1 pp

−9.8 pp vs MS · 61st of 82

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

12.3%

90% interval 11.0%–13.6% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

14th 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

Brookhaven, Magnolia, Tylertown

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

18

61.01 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

16