Tippah County, Mississippi

• White (non-Hispanic) 16,335 75.9%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,135 5.3%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 3,009 14.0%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 36 0.2%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 919 4.3%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 9 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 80 0.4%

• Under 18 5,080 23.6%
• 18–24 2,153 10.0%
• 25–44 5,057 23.5%
• 45–64 5,496 25.5%
• 65 and over 3,737 17.4%

Median household income

$53,948

90% interval $48,343–$59,553

−$5,353 vs MS · 32nd of 82

Below poverty line

16.2%

90% interval 12.5%–19.9%

−1.6 pp vs MS · 67th of 82

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.1%

−0.57 pp vs. state

County GDP

$899.0M

0.57% of state

Avg. annual pay

$45,660

Establishments

393

• Manufacturing 2,134 29.6%
• Education & health services 1,552 21.5%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,369 19.0%
• Professional & business services 520 7.2%
• Leisure & hospitality 441 6.1%
• Construction 328 4.5%
• Natural resources & mining 296 4.1%
• Public administration 288 4.0%
• Information 5 0.1%
• Financial activities 2 0.0%

The sectors listed cover 96.2% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

74.8%

+4.8 pp vs MS · 42nd of 82

Median gross rent

$790

−$164 vs MS · 38th of 82

Owner-occupied

5,996

Renter-occupied

2,021

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 70% 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, $56,490/yr) pays 3.8× the lowest (Information, $14,694/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 18 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 7,984 83.2%
• Democratic 1,547 16.1%
• Other / third-party 60 0.6%

• Spanish 852 4.2%
• Chinese 19 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 5 0.0%

Households

8,017

Family households

5,825

72.7% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,492

25.6% of families

Single-mother families

591

10.1% of families

Veterans

972

5.9% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 12,909 59.2%
• Mainline Protestant 1,604 7.4%
• Black Protestant 452 2.1%
• Catholic 142 0.7%

Health insured

88.1%

±2.1 pp

Uninsured

11.9%

±2.1 pp

34th of 82

With a disability

20.2%

±2.5 pp

35th of 82

Bachelor's or higher

17.9%

±3 pp

−7.2 pp vs MS · 41st of 82

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

13.2%

90% interval 11.8%–14.6% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

3rd 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

Ashland, Holly Springs, Houston, Okolona, New Albany, Oxford, Pittsboro, Ripley

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

2

12.16 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

2