Bandera County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 16,073 73.0%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4,619 21.0%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 258 1.2%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 110 0.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 698 3.2%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 85 0.4%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 178 0.8%

• Under 18 3,651 16.6%
• 18–24 1,165 5.3%
• 25–44 3,886 17.6%
• 45–64 6,765 30.7%
• 65 and over 6,554 29.8%

Median household income

$76,716

90% interval $68,240–$85,192

−$3,007 vs TX · 57th of 254

Below poverty line

11.0%

90% interval 8.5%–13.5%

−2.4 pp vs TX · 209th of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.2%

−0.08 pp vs. state

County GDP

$550.4M

0.02% of state

Avg. annual pay

$46,256

Establishments

511

• Education & health services 926 23.9%
• Leisure & hospitality 809 20.9%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 612 15.8%
• Construction 341 8.8%
• Natural resources & mining 257 6.6%
• Professional & business services 233 6.0%
• Public administration 187 4.8%
• Other services 181 4.7%
• Financial activities 138 3.6%
• Manufacturing 53 1.4%
• Information 25 0.6%
• Unclassified 18 0.5%

The sectors listed cover 97.7% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

85.9%

+23.3 pp vs TX · 6th of 254

Median gross rent

$1,149

−$254 vs TX · 53rd of 254

Owner-occupied

7,949

Renter-occupied

1,306

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 61% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $69,094/yr) pays 2.6× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $26,699/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Small-business scale

  Average establishment employs only 7.6 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

• Republican 10,939 80.5%
• Democratic 2,532 18.6%
• Other / third-party 121 0.9%

• Spanish 2,689 12.7%
• German or other West Germanic 179 0.8%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 33 0.2%
• Arabic 32 0.2%
• Tagalog 23 0.1%
• Vietnamese 14 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 7 0.0%
• Chinese 4 0.0%

Households

9,255

Family households

6,080

65.7% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,142

18.8% of families

Single-mother families

433

7.1% of families

Veterans

2,433

13.2% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 5,289 25.4%
• Evangelical Protestant 4,272 20.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,930 9.3%
• Mainline Protestant 1,477 7.1%

Health insured

86.7%

±2.5 pp

Uninsured

13.3%

±2.5 pp

204th of 254

With a disability

21.4%

±2.6 pp

38th of 254

Bachelor's or higher

27.2%

±3.4 pp

−6.6 pp vs TX · 54th of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

20.0%

90% interval 18.1%–21.9% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

198th 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

Bandera, Kerrville

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

7

38.11 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

7