Union County, Mississippi

• White (non-Hispanic) 21,521 76.5%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,365 4.9%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 3,831 13.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 80 0.3%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,072 3.8%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 86 0.3%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 167 0.6%

• Under 18 7,039 25.0%
• 18–24 2,555 9.1%
• 25–44 7,012 24.9%
• 45–64 6,854 24.4%
• 65 and over 4,662 16.6%

Median household income

$58,849

90% interval $53,227–$64,471

−$452 vs MS · 16th of 82

Below poverty line

14.0%

90% interval 11.1%–16.9%

−3.8 pp vs MS · 77th of 82

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.0%

−0.7 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.5B

0.93% of state

Avg. annual pay

$55,517

Establishments

598

• Manufacturing 4,146 34.2%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 3,157 26.1%
• Education & health services 2,295 19.0%
• Leisure & hospitality 967 8.0%
• Professional & business services 529 4.4%
• Public administration 323 2.7%
• Financial activities 285 2.4%
• Information 9 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 96.7% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

74.7%

+4.7 pp vs MS · 43rd of 82

Median gross rent

$865

−$89 vs MS · 25th of 82

Owner-occupied

7,353

Renter-occupied

2,496

• 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 (Manufacturing, $76,297/yr) pays 3.9× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $19,527/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• 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.

• Republican 10,559 84.6%
• Democratic 1,807 14.5%
• Other / third-party 112 0.9%

• Spanish 919 3.5%
• Vietnamese 45 0.2%
• Korean 13 0.0%

Households

9,849

Family households

6,680

67.8% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,890

28.3% of families

Single-mother families

716

10.7% of families

Veterans

1,013

4.8% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 18,429 66.3%
• Mainline Protestant 3,065 11.0%
• Catholic 680 2.4%
• Black Protestant 638 2.3%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 217 0.8%

Health insured

88.9%

±1.9 pp

Uninsured

11.1%

±1.9 pp

49th of 82

With a disability

20.1%

±2.8 pp

38th of 82

Bachelor's or higher

19.1%

±2.6 pp

−6.0 pp vs MS · 35th of 82

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

15.0%

90% interval 13.5%–16.5% · 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

5

23.72 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

5