Scott County, Mississippi

• White (non-Hispanic) 12,706 45.8%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4,293 15.5%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 9,375 33.8%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 39 0.1%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,015 3.7%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 71 0.3%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 219 0.8%

• Under 18 7,803 28.2%
• 18–24 2,209 8.0%
• 25–44 6,703 24.2%
• 45–64 6,608 23.8%
• 65 and over 4,395 15.9%

Median household income

$52,147

90% interval $46,603–$57,691

−$7,154 vs MS · 39th of 82

Below poverty line

19.2%

90% interval 15.3%–23.1%

+1.4 pp vs MS · 51st of 82

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.2%

−0.53 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.4B

0.91% of state

Avg. annual pay

$47,999

Establishments

530

• Manufacturing 6,982 51.1%
• Education & health services 2,112 15.5%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,734 12.7%
• Leisure & hospitality 587 4.3%
• Professional & business services 538 3.9%
• Public administration 499 3.7%
• Construction 485 3.6%
• Natural resources & mining 378 2.8%
• Information 7 0.1%
• Financial activities 3 0.0%

The sectors listed cover 97.6% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

71.3%

+1.3 pp vs MS · 51st of 82

Median gross rent

$888

−$66 vs MS · 20th of 82

Owner-occupied

6,909

Renter-occupied

2,777

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 79% 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, $62,779/yr) pays 4.0× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $15,760/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 26 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 6,098 61.7%
• Democratic 3,729 37.7%
• Other / third-party 64 0.6%

• Spanish 3,233 12.7%
• Tagalog 29 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 16 0.1%

Households

9,686

Family households

6,982

72.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,435

20.6% of families

Single-mother families

1,228

17.6% of families

Veterans

1,166

5.9% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 15,090 53.9%
• Mainline Protestant 1,871 6.7%
• Black Protestant 730 2.6%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 599 2.1%
• Catholic 100 0.4%

Health insured

86.9%

±1.5 pp

Uninsured

13.1%

±1.5 pp

14th of 82

With a disability

18.3%

±2.3 pp

50th of 82

Bachelor's or higher

13.5%

±2.4 pp

−11.6 pp vs MS · 67th of 82

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

15.5%

90% interval 13.9%–17.1% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

8th 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

Carthage, Decatur, Forest, Philadelphia

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

7

35.15 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

7