Winston County, Mississippi

• White (non-Hispanic) 8,662 49.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 105 0.6%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 8,260 47.1%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 18 0.1%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 301 1.7%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 190 1.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%

• Under 18 3,888 22.2%
• 18–24 1,458 8.3%
• 25–44 4,048 23.1%
• 45–64 4,341 24.8%
• 65 and over 3,801 21.7%

Median household income

$50,729

90% interval $44,900–$56,558

−$8,572 vs MS · 44th of 82

Below poverty line

22.0%

90% interval 17.0%–27.0%

+4.2 pp vs MS · 27th of 82

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.8%

+0.12 pp vs. state

County GDP

$683.6M

0.43% of state

Avg. annual pay

$50,762

Establishments

368

• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,296 25.3%
• Education & health services 1,212 23.7%
• Manufacturing 1,015 19.8%
• Leisure & hospitality 528 10.3%
• Professional & business services 351 6.9%
• Public administration 253 4.9%
• Construction 170 3.3%
• Financial activities 104 2.0%
• Natural resources & mining 96 1.9%
• Other services 76 1.5%
• Information 24 0.5%

Home ownership

73.0%

+3.0 pp vs MS · 46th of 82

Median gross rent

$721

−$233 vs MS · 57th of 82

Owner-occupied

5,213

Renter-occupied

1,928

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 69% 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 (Professional & business services, $84,738/yr) pays 3.9× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $21,515/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 14 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 4,922 58.7%
• Democratic 3,392 40.5%
• Other / third-party 70 0.8%

• Spanish 100 0.6%
• Arabic 32 0.2%
• Vietnamese 18 0.1%

Households

7,141

Family households

4,362

61.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

908

20.8% of families

Single-mother families

767

17.6% of families

Veterans

790

5.8% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 9,176 51.8%
• Mainline Protestant 1,856 10.5%
• Black Protestant 1,010 5.7%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 198 1.1%
• Catholic 56 0.3%

Health insured

89.5%

±2.4 pp

Uninsured

10.5%

±2.4 pp

59th of 82

With a disability

23.6%

±2.5 pp

13th of 82

Bachelor's or higher

19.7%

±2.9 pp

−5.4 pp vs MS · 29th of 82

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

13.5%

90% interval 12.0%–15.0% · 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

11

80.6 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

5