Bailey County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 2,064 29.9%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4,565 66.0%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 43 0.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 52 0.8%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 189 2.7%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%

• Under 18 1,856 26.8%
• 18–24 814 11.8%
• 25–44 2,002 29.0%
• 45–64 880 12.7%
• 65 and over 1,361 19.7%

Median household income

$61,259

90% interval $55,930–$66,588

−$18,464 vs TX · 165th of 254

Below poverty line

15.6%

90% interval 11.5%–19.7%

+2.2 pp vs TX · 103rd of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.1%

−0.22 pp vs. state

County GDP

$626.0M

0.02% of state

Avg. annual pay

$51,257

Establishments

236

• Natural resources & mining 669 27.7%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 544 22.6%
• Education & health services 483 20.0%
• Leisure & hospitality 205 8.5%
• Public administration 97 4.0%
• Financial activities 67 2.8%
• Other services 53 2.2%

The sectors listed cover 87.8% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

79.9%

+17.3 pp vs TX · 50th of 254

Median gross rent

$931

−$472 vs TX · 139th of 254

Owner-occupied

1,765

Renter-occupied

444

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 70% 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 (Financial activities, $76,283/yr) pays 4.0× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $18,862/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 1,395 80.2%
• Democratic 332 19.1%
• Other / third-party 13 0.7%

• Spanish 3,186 49.6%
• German or other West Germanic 133 2.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 29 0.5%

Households

2,209

Family households

1,668

75.5% of households

Married couples w/ children

577

34.6% of families

Single-mother families

196

11.8% of families

Veterans

184

3.6% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 2,189 31.7%
• Catholic 1,549 22.4%
• Mainline Protestant 307 4.4%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 133 1.9%

Health insured

71.4%

±5.7 pp

Uninsured

28.6%

±5.7 pp

6th of 254

With a disability

14.8%

±3.6 pp

152nd of 254

Bachelor's or higher

15.2%

±4.5 pp

−18.6 pp vs TX · 202nd of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

25.9%

90% interval 23.4%–28.4% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

287th 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

Farwell, Muleshoe

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

0

0 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

0