Bastrop County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 47,370 44.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 48,002 45.0%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 6,104 5.7%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 825 0.8%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 3,670 3.4%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 137 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 474 0.4%

• Under 18 27,681 26.0%
• 18–24 9,303 8.7%
• 25–44 26,778 25.1%
• 45–64 26,418 24.8%
• 65 and over 16,402 15.4%

Median household income

$84,174

90% interval $77,402–$90,946

+$4,451 vs TX · 37th of 254

Below poverty line

9.6%

90% interval 7.3%–11.9%

−3.8 pp vs TX · 226th of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.8%

−0.54 pp vs. state

County GDP

$4.3B

0.16% of state

Avg. annual pay

$54,668

Establishments

1,862

• Education & health services 5,619 24.0%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 5,409 23.1%
• Leisure & hospitality 3,662 15.6%
• Construction 2,025 8.6%
• Manufacturing 1,628 6.9%
• Professional & business services 1,606 6.9%
• Public administration 1,205 5.1%
• Financial activities 742 3.2%
• Other services 677 2.9%
• Natural resources & mining 400 1.7%
• Information 96 0.4%
• Unclassified 27 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 98.6% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

76.5%

+13.9 pp vs TX · 102nd of 254

Median gross rent

$1,410

+$7 vs TX · 21st of 254

Owner-occupied

28,186

Renter-occupied

8,682

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 63% 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, $78,565/yr) pays 2.8× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $28,177/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 13 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 23,301 58.6%
• Democratic 15,989 40.2%
• Other / third-party 498 1.3%

• Spanish 31,895 32.0%
• German or other West Germanic 237 0.2%
• Chinese 180 0.2%
• Vietnamese 179 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 81 0.1%
• Tagalog 66 0.1%
• Arabic 14 0.0%

Households

36,868

Family households

26,255

71.2% of households

Married couples w/ children

7,605

29.0% of families

Single-mother families

1,459

5.6% of families

Veterans

6,505

8.3% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 21,766 22.4%
• Evangelical Protestant 14,500 14.9%
• Mainline Protestant 3,396 3.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,152 2.2%
• Black Protestant 1,130 1.2%

Health insured

78.2%

±2.3 pp

Uninsured

21.8%

±2.3 pp

36th of 254

With a disability

12.0%

±1.1 pp

213th of 254

Bachelor's or higher

25.0%

±1.8 pp

−8.8 pp vs TX · 73rd of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

23.2%

90% interval 21.5%–24.9% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

21st 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

Bastrop, Brenham, Caldwell, Giddings

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

24

30.42 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

22