Tunica County, Mississippi

• White (non-Hispanic) 1,724 18.2%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 171 1.8%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 7,566 79.9%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 14 0.1%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%

• Under 18 2,626 27.7%
• 18–24 742 7.8%
• 25–44 2,658 28.1%
• 45–64 2,057 21.7%
• 65 and over 1,392 14.7%

Median household income

$45,292

90% interval $39,938–$50,646

−$14,009 vs MS · 65th of 82

Below poverty line

25.0%

90% interval 19.1%–30.9%

+7.2 pp vs MS · 18th of 82

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.2%

+1.47 pp vs. state

County GDP

$730.7M

0.46% of state

Avg. annual pay

$42,578

Establishments

269

• Leisure & hospitality 3,121 57.1%
• Education & health services 595 10.9%
• Professional & business services 353 6.5%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 322 5.9%
• Public administration 312 5.7%
• Manufacturing 286 5.2%
• Natural resources & mining 220 4.0%
• Financial activities 138 2.5%
• Construction 82 1.5%
• Other services 34 0.6%
• Information 5 0.1%

Home ownership

39.5%

−30.5 pp vs MS · 82nd of 82

Median gross rent

$977

+$23 vs MS · 10th of 82

Owner-occupied

1,502

Renter-occupied

2,298

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 74% 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.

• Compressed wage spread

  Highest-paid sector pays only 2.4× the lowest ($75,864 vs $31,482/yr), a relatively flat local wage distribution.

• 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.

• Democratic 1,837 68.9%
• Republican 799 29.9%
• Other / third-party 32 1.2%

• Spanish 239 2.7%

Households

3,800

Family households

2,192

57.7% of households

Married couples w/ children

196

8.9% of families

Single-mother families

564

25.7% of families

Veterans

268

3.9% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 1,237 12.6%
• Black Protestant 580 5.9%
• Mainline Protestant 324 3.3%
• Catholic 111 1.1%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1 0.0%

Health insured

86.9%

±3.2 pp

Uninsured

13.1%

±3.2 pp

15th of 82

With a disability

10.5%

±2.3 pp

82nd of 82

Bachelor's or higher

13.7%

±3.3 pp

−11.4 pp vs MS · 66th of 82

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

11.5%

90% interval 9.9%–13.1% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

11th 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

Clarksdale, Cleveland, Rosedale, Marks, Tunica

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

6

87.6 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

5