Austin County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 18,821 60.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 8,661 27.8%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 2,460 7.9%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 256 0.8%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 813 2.6%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 33 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 126 0.4%

• Under 18 7,302 23.4%
• 18–24 2,386 7.7%
• 25–44 7,055 22.6%
• 45–64 7,871 25.3%
• 65 and over 6,556 21.0%

Median household income

$74,343

90% interval $66,529–$82,157

−$5,380 vs TX · 67th of 254

Below poverty line

11.1%

90% interval 8.6%–13.6%

−2.3 pp vs TX · 205th of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.1%

−0.2 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.4B

0.09% of state

Avg. annual pay

$73,461

Establishments

1,497

• Trade, transportation & utilities 3,378 24.9%
• Education & health services 2,349 17.3%
• Manufacturing 2,086 15.4%
• Professional & business services 1,494 11.0%
• Construction 1,224 9.0%
• Leisure & hospitality 932 6.9%
• Financial activities 782 5.8%
• Public administration 352 2.6%
• Information 305 2.3%
• Other services 269 2.0%
• Natural resources & mining 165 1.2%
• Unclassified 74 0.5%

The sectors listed cover 99.0% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

76.5%

+13.9 pp vs TX · 101st of 254

Median gross rent

$1,137

−$266 vs TX · 55th of 254

Owner-occupied

9,279

Renter-occupied

2,849

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 58% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Information, $250,059/yr) pays 7.5× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $33,457/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Small-business scale

  Average establishment employs only 9.0 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

• Republican 12,457 81.0%
• Democratic 2,816 18.3%
• Other / third-party 106 0.7%

• Spanish 5,939 20.2%
• German or other West Germanic 220 0.7%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 131 0.4%
• Vietnamese 117 0.4%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 72 0.2%
• Korean 6 0.0%

Households

12,128

Family households

8,790

72.5% of households

Married couples w/ children

2,530

28.8% of families

Single-mother families

637

7.2% of families

Veterans

981

4.1% of civilians 18+

• 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%

Health insured

83.3%

±2.2 pp

Uninsured

16.7%

±2.2 pp

125th of 254

With a disability

12.8%

±1.7 pp

198th of 254

Bachelor's or higher

25.1%

±2.5 pp

−8.7 pp vs TX · 71st of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

21.0%

90% interval 19.3%–22.7% · Census SAHIE

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

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 counties.

Traffic fatalities

9

37.71 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

9