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Texas County, Oklahoma

Republican +67.8 (2024)
County seat
Guymon
Judicial district
1st Judicial District Court
Population (July 2025 estimate)
20,322
Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 20,774.

At a glance

Texas County is a 20,322-person venue. The county population is 46% White and 5% Black (Census race-alone categories). 52% identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race. Those figures overlap rather than adding up; counted separately, non-Hispanic White residents are 37.4%, which is the basis the chart below uses. Median household income is $68,754, $2,630 above the OK state median of $66,124; 22.1% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 44.6% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, most commonly Spanish, then other and unspecified languages (2.0%), a group the Census does not break out. The largest published sector is Trade, transportation & utilities, at 16.4% of covered employment, average pay $44,724/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 2.47%, below the 3.88% state average. The county carried the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking 80% to 83% of the vote across the three.

Population
20,774
Median household income
$60,069
Unemployment
2.5%

Who sits on a jury?

Majority-minority

<50% in any single race-alone group. White here: 46%; Black: 5%.

Texas County has a population of 20,774, with a median age of 33.0. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 46.4%; Black residents 5.4%. Independently, 52.1% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The median household earns $68,754; 22.1% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 13.5% live below the federal poverty line.

Race & ethnicity
  • White (non-Hispanic) 7,774 37.4%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 10,816 52.1%
  • Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 1,124 5.4%
  • Asian (non-Hispanic) 267 1.3%
  • Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 595 2.9%
  • American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 146 0.7%
  • Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
  • Some other race (non-Hispanic) 52 0.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Age distribution

Median age 33

  • Under 18 5,983 28.8%
  • 18–24 2,199 10.6%
  • 25–44 5,477 26.4%
  • 45–64 4,582 22.1%
  • 65 and over 2,533 12.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Income & poverty
Median household income
$68,754
90% interval $61,087–$76,421
+$2,630 vs OK · 12th of 77
Below poverty line
13.5%
90% interval 10.6%–16.4%
−1.3 pp vs OK · 60th of 77

U.S. Census SAIPE 2024

Economic context

Manufacturing anchored

Largest sector in BLS QCEW, with cells BLS withholds estimated from Census County Business Patterns (private jobs) and the statewide public-sector mix: Manufacturing, about 25% of covered jobs.

Trade, transportation & utilities is the largest published sector at 16.4% of covered employment, followed by Natural resources & mining at 11.3%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 2.47%, below the Oklahoma state average.

Local economy
Unemployment (12-mo)
2.5%
−1.41 pp vs. state
County GDP
$2.6B
1% of state
Avg. annual pay
$51,218
Establishments
578

U.S. BLS 2026M07 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2025

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

  • Trade, transportation & utilities 1,626 16.4%
  • Natural resources & mining 1,121 11.3%
  • Education & health services 1,105 11.1%
  • Professional & business services 668 6.7%
  • Leisure & hospitality 564 5.7%
  • Public administration 272 2.7%
  • Financial activities 264 2.7%

The sectors listed cover 56.6% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

BLS QCEW 2025

Housing
Home ownership
66.4%
+0.6 pp vs OK · 64th of 77
Median gross rent
$873
−$141 vs OK · 26th of 77
Owner-occupied
4,532
Renter-occupied
2,292

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Local economy in 3 reads
  • Diversified

    Top three sectors employ 39% of the workforce, a relatively diversified local economy. Expect mixed employer backgrounds on the panel rather than concentration in any one institution or industry.

  • Moderate wage spread

    Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $67,100/yr) pays 3.8× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $17,822/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

  • Mixed business scale

    Average establishment employs 17 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

BLS QCEW 2025

Largest employers

Principal employers by headcount

1 of the top 5 employers on this list (1 of the listed 6) is in manufacturing, accounting for 3,553 employees on this list. So manufacturing is the largest sector by employment here, but most of the county's five biggest named employers sit outside it. A panelist who works somewhere you recognize is probably not working where most of this county works; ask where they work before assuming either pattern fits them.

# Employer Sector Employees
1 Seaboard Farms of Oklahoma Pork processing 3,553
2 Guymon Public Schools District I-8 Public school district 383
3 Walmart Discount retail store 248
4 Golden Mesa Casino Casino gaming 180
5 Texas County government County government 165
6 Oklahoma Panhandle State University Public university 160

Showing 6 of 10 employers on the published list(5,188 employees total).

Source: City of Guymon, Oklahoma, Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, Table 17, 'Principal Employers, Current and Nine Fiscal Years Ago,' compiled by the Oklahoma Department of Commerce. The source does not say whether counts are full-time or include part-time staff. (2025)

Political composition

Consistently strongly Republican

Republican candidate carried this county in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (avg winning share: 82%). 'Strongly' threshold: ≥60% avg.

Texas County was carried by the Republican candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 83.0% in 2024, 81.6% in 2020, 80.0% in 2016.

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 5,206 votes cast

  • Republican
  • Democratic
Presidential vote share by year
YearRepublicanDemocratic
201680.0%14.8%
202081.6%16.2%
202483.0%15.2%
  • Republican 4,319 83.0%
  • Democratic 793 15.2%
  • Other / third-party 94 1.8%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Family-majority, linguistically diverse

Family households are 63% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 44.6% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).

44.6% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, Vietnamese, Arabic. Veterans account for 3.6% of the adult civilian population (532 individuals).

Languages spoken at home

55.4% speak only English at home

  • Spanish 7,744 40.4%
  • Vietnamese 170 0.9%
  • Arabic 156 0.8%
  • German or other West Germanic 38 0.2%
  • Chinese 33 0.2%
  • French, Haitian, or Cajun 19 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Household composition
Households
6,824
Family households
4,278
62.7% of households
Married couples w/ children
1,427
33.4% of families
Single-mother families
497
11.6% of families
Veterans
532
3.6% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Religious composition

64.5% overall adherence rate

  • Evangelical Protestant 7,007 32.8%
  • Catholic 4,160 19.5%
  • Mainline Protestant 1,935 9.0%
  • Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 695 3.3%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education
Health insured
88.1%
±2.2 pp
Uninsured
11.9%
±2.2 pp
47th of 77
With a disability
12.5%
±1.9 pp
77th of 77
Bachelor's or higher
22.1%
±3.3 pp
−6.2 pp vs OK · 28th of 77
Uninsured, under 65 (2024)
22.9%
90% interval 20.8%–25.0% · Census SAHIE

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

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Court infrastructure

Court infrastructure
Trial court
1st Judicial District Court
Judges
4 (District Court judges per district (general civil + felony criminal jurisdiction); counts include elected District Judges + Associate District Judges (one per county) + Special Judges. Vintage 2026 oscn.net; cross-checked against 20 OS § 92.13. Municipal Courts (limited jurisdiction: city ordinances) are separately allocated and not counted here.)
Court seats
Beaver, Boise City, Buffalo, Guymon

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Court reference
Traffic safety context

Texas totals, 2024 — the per-100k rate is based on 3 recorded deaths, too few to be statistically reliable

Traffic fatalities
3
20.28 per 100k adults (18+)
Fatal crashes
2

NHTSA FARS 2024

About this profile

This profile aggregates publicly available U.S. government statistics for Texas County, Oklahoma to give trial attorneys venue context for jury selection. It describes the general population of the county, not the qualified jury wheel, and is not legal advice or a substitute for the court's juror records.

Sources as of: U.S. Census ACS 2024 · U.S. BLS 2026M07 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2025 · Election results 2024 · NHTSA FARS 2024 · US Religion Census 2020.

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