Tishomingo County, Mississippi

• White (non-Hispanic) 16,867 90.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 605 3.2%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 216 1.2%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 107 0.6%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 689 3.7%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 100 0.5%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 76 0.4%

• Under 18 4,013 21.5%
• 18–24 1,298 7.0%
• 25–44 4,312 23.1%
• 45–64 5,088 27.3%
• 65 and over 3,949 21.2%

Median household income

$56,250

90% interval $51,537–$60,963

−$3,051 vs MS · 25th of 82

Below poverty line

15.7%

90% interval 12.6%–18.8%

−2.1 pp vs MS · 71st of 82

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.5%

−0.17 pp vs. state

County GDP

$767.2M

0.48% of state

Avg. annual pay

$47,864

Establishments

486

• Manufacturing 2,644 41.9%
• Education & health services 1,114 17.6%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,043 16.5%
• Leisure & hospitality 502 7.9%
• Public administration 297 4.7%
• Professional & business services 191 3.0%
• Construction 155 2.5%
• Other services 129 2.0%
• Financial activities 122 1.9%
• Natural resources & mining 102 1.6%
• Information 17 0.3%

Home ownership

79.5%

+9.5 pp vs MS · 19th of 82

Median gross rent

$682

−$272 vs MS · 62nd of 82

Owner-occupied

7,027

Renter-occupied

1,807

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 76% 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 (Manufacturing, $62,791/yr) pays 3.3× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $18,952/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 13 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 8,064 89.1%
• Democratic 921 10.2%
• Other / third-party 65 0.7%

• Spanish 406 2.3%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 25 0.1%
• Vietnamese 9 0.1%
• Tagalog 1 0.0%

Households

8,834

Family households

5,502

62.3% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,635

29.7% of families

Single-mother families

370

6.7% of families

Veterans

732

5% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 7,658 40.6%
• Mainline Protestant 1,344 7.1%
• Black Protestant 304 1.6%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 113 0.6%
• Catholic 37 0.2%

Health insured

90.4%

±2 pp

Uninsured

9.6%

±2 pp

67th of 82

With a disability

21.3%

±2.2 pp

28th of 82

Bachelor's or higher

17.8%

±2.6 pp

−7.3 pp vs MS · 42nd of 82

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

13.8%

90% interval 12.4%–15.2% · 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

4

27.31 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

4