Simpson County, Mississippi

• White (non-Hispanic) 15,626 60.8%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 443 1.7%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 9,134 35.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 49 0.2%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 392 1.5%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 41 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 6 0.0%

• Under 18 5,946 23.1%
• 18–24 2,259 8.8%
• 25–44 5,898 23.0%
• 45–64 6,671 26.0%
• 65 and over 4,917 19.1%

Median household income

$55,167

90% interval $49,706–$60,628

−$4,134 vs MS · 28th of 82

Below poverty line

19.7%

90% interval 15.4%–24.0%

+1.9 pp vs MS · 43rd of 82

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.5%

−0.22 pp vs. state

County GDP

$941.1M

0.59% of state

Avg. annual pay

$38,735

Establishments

513

• Education & health services 3,098 43.6%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,283 18.0%
• Leisure & hospitality 702 9.9%
• Construction 585 8.2%
• Public administration 440 6.2%
• Financial activities 317 4.5%
• Professional & business services 281 4.0%
• Manufacturing 181 2.5%
• Natural resources & mining 102 1.4%
• Other services 100 1.4%
• Information 21 0.3%

Home ownership

81.4%

+11.4 pp vs MS · 15th of 82

Median gross rent

$852

−$102 vs MS · 27th of 82

Owner-occupied

7,769

Renter-occupied

1,774

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 71% 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, $63,629/yr) pays 3.6× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $17,832/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 7,552 68.1%
• Democratic 3,479 31.4%
• Other / third-party 63 0.6%

• Spanish 373 1.5%
• Korean 49 0.2%
• German or other West Germanic 30 0.1%
• Tagalog 7 0.0%

Households

9,543

Family households

6,820

71.5% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,887

27.7% of families

Single-mother families

855

12.5% of families

Veterans

1,216

6.2% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 18,755 72.3%
• Black Protestant 3,090 11.9%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 608 2.3%
• Mainline Protestant 477 1.8%
• Catholic 140 0.5%

Health insured

89.9%

±1.8 pp

Uninsured

10.1%

±1.8 pp

62nd of 82

With a disability

21.3%

±1.9 pp

27th of 82

Bachelor's or higher

16.7%

±2.4 pp

−8.4 pp vs MS · 52nd of 82

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

13.7%

90% interval 12.3%–15.1% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

13th 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

Bay Springs, Paulding, Collins, Mendenhall, Raleigh

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

4

20.26 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

4