Pontotoc County, Mississippi

• White (non-Hispanic) 23,355 74.0%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2,254 7.1%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 4,626 14.7%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 1 0.0%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,137 3.6%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 17 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 160 0.5%

• Under 18 8,237 26.1%
• 18–24 2,630 8.3%
• 25–44 8,253 26.2%
• 45–64 7,537 23.9%
• 65 and over 4,893 15.5%

Median household income

$59,898

90% interval $53,269–$66,527

+$597 vs MS · 14th of 82

Below poverty line

14.9%

90% interval 12.0%–17.8%

−2.9 pp vs MS · 75th of 82

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.6%

−0.07 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.3B

0.81% of state

Avg. annual pay

$43,208

Establishments

564

• Manufacturing 4,981 43.7%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 2,388 21.0%
• Education & health services 1,823 16.0%
• Leisure & hospitality 627 5.5%
• Professional & business services 527 4.6%
• Public administration 383 3.4%
• Financial activities 216 1.9%
• Information 20 0.2%

The sectors listed cover 96.3% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

69.8%

−0.2 pp vs MS · 56th of 82

Median gross rent

$864

−$90 vs MS · 26th of 82

Owner-occupied

8,244

Renter-occupied

3,575

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 81% 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 (Financial activities, $57,090/yr) pays 3.4× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $16,890/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 20 workers, typical of an institutional-employer economy where large hospitals, plants, schools, and government agencies dominate. Expect many panelists to share an employer rather than work for themselves.

• Republican 11,740 83.5%
• Democratic 2,214 15.7%
• Other / third-party 114 0.8%

• Spanish 1,730 5.9%
• German or other West Germanic 119 0.4%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 76 0.3%

Households

11,819

Family households

8,111

68.6% of households

Married couples w/ children

2,618

32.3% of families

Single-mother families

714

8.8% of families

Veterans

1,007

4.3% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 18,323 58.8%
• Mainline Protestant 1,433 4.6%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 339 1.1%
• Black Protestant 296 0.9%
• Catholic 277 0.9%

Health insured

87.8%

±1.9 pp

Uninsured

12.2%

±1.9 pp

29th of 82

With a disability

19.0%

±2 pp

45th of 82

Bachelor's or higher

18.5%

±2.4 pp

−6.6 pp vs MS · 39th of 82

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

15.4%

90% interval 13.8%–17.0% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

1st Circuit Court District

Judges

4 (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

Aberdeen, Booneville, Corinth, Fulton, Iuka, Pontotoc, Tupelo

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

7

30.03 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

7