Jury Pool Profile
Austin County, Texas
Republican +63 (2024)
- Population
- 30,712
- Median household income
- $75,994
- Unemployment
- 3.9%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 21,755 70.8%
- Black or African American alone 2,858 9.3%
- Asian alone 234 0.8%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 89 0.3%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
- Some other race alone 4,037 13.1%
- Two or more races 1,739 5.7%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 8,359 27.2%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 41.6
- Under 18 7,242 23.6%
- 18–24 2,185 7.1%
- 25–44 7,048 22.9%
- 45–64 7,833 25.5%
- 65 and over 6,404 20.9%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 3.9%
- -0.31 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $2.4B
- 0.09% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $67,754
- Establishments
- 1,532
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Trade, transportation & utilities 3,291 24.8%
- Education & health services 2,410 18.2%
- Manufacturing 1,974 14.9%
- Professional & business services 1,507 11.4%
- Leisure & hospitality 1,097 8.3%
- Construction 1,019 7.7%
- Financial activities 814 6.1%
- Public administration 396 3.0%
- Other services 262 2.0%
- Information 213 1.6%
- Natural resources & mining 166 1.3%
- Unclassified 52 0.4%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 77.5%
- Median gross rent
- $1,111
- Owner-occupied
- 9,434
- Renter-occupied
- 2,740
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 15,379 votes cast
- Republican 12,457 81.0%
- Democratic 2,816 18.3%
- Other / third-party 106 0.7%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
77.9% speak only English at home
- Spanish 5,559 19.2%
- Other Indo-European 240 0.8%
- German 236 0.8%
- Slavic languages 169 0.6%
- French (incl. Cajun) 77 0.3%
- Other Asian/Pacific 62 0.2%
- Vietnamese 55 0.2%
- Korean 8 0.0%
- Arabic 6 0.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 12,174
- Family households
- 9,033
- 74.2% of households
- Married w/ children
- 7,048
- Single-mother households
- 690
- Veterans
- 983
- 4.2% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
61.2% overall adherence rate
- Catholic 6,586 21.8%
- Evangelical Protestant 5,828 19.3%
- Mainline Protestant 3,876 12.8%
- Black Protestant 1,202 4.0%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 972 3.2%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 84.9%
- With a disability
- 12.5%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 23.4%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 155th District Court
- Judges
- 1 (Total District Court judges with venue over this county; vintage 2026 txcourts.gov directory + Tex. Gov't Code § 24. Texas's court structure is unusual — each urban county has dozens of numbered District Courts (Harris ~60, Dallas ~45, Travis ~25, Bexar ~25, Tarrant ~20) with trial assignments random across the full bench. Rural counties typically have 1-2 District Court judges sitting on a multi-county district. County Court at Law judges (limited jurisdiction) and Constitutional County Court judges (presided over by the elected County Judge) are separately allocated and not counted here. TX has ~474 District Court judges statewide.)
- Court seats
- Bellville, La Grange
This judicial district spans multiple countys.
Traffic safety context
Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 5
- 21.3 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 5
NHTSA FARS 2023