Webster County, Mississippi

• White (non-Hispanic) 7,766 77.9%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 193 1.9%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 1,861 18.7%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 29 0.3%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 114 1.1%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 6 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 3 0.0%

• Under 18 2,440 24.5%
• 18–24 781 7.8%
• 25–44 2,397 24.0%
• 45–64 2,544 25.5%
• 65 and over 1,810 18.2%

Median household income

$57,401

90% interval $50,704–$64,098

−$1,900 vs MS · 20th of 82

Below poverty line

15.3%

90% interval 11.5%–19.1%

−2.5 pp vs MS · 73rd of 82

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.1%

−0.65 pp vs. state

County GDP

$254.6M

0.16% of state

Avg. annual pay

$42,263

Establishments

205

• Education & health services 761 36.1%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 402 19.1%
• Leisure & hospitality 250 11.9%
• Public administration 155 7.4%
• Construction 102 4.8%
• Professional & business services 67 3.2%
• Information 2 0.1%
• Financial activities 2 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 82.6% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

76.1%

+6.1 pp vs MS · 36th of 82

Median gross rent

$632

−$322 vs MS · 78th of 82

Owner-occupied

3,098

Renter-occupied

975

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 67% 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.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Construction, $58,911/yr) pays 7.6× the lowest (Information, $7,746/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 10 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 4,195 82.3%
• Democratic 872 17.1%
• Other / third-party 28 0.5%

• Spanish 90 1.0%
• German or other West Germanic 2 0.0%

Households

4,073

Family households

2,796

68.6% of households

Married couples w/ children

852

30.5% of families

Single-mother families

267

9.5% of families

Veterans

425

5.6% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 6,033 60.8%
• Mainline Protestant 615 6.2%
• Black Protestant 100 1.0%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1 0.0%

Health insured

89.2%

±2.4 pp

Uninsured

10.8%

±2.4 pp

54th of 82

With a disability

22.4%

±2.8 pp

21st of 82

Bachelor's or higher

20.9%

±3.5 pp

−4.2 pp vs MS · 22nd of 82

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

12.4%

90% interval 11.1%–13.7% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

5th 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

Ackerman, Carrollton, Vaiden, Grenada, Kosciusko, Louisville, Walthall, Winona

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

2

26.55 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

2