Jury Pool Profile
Bastrop County, Texas
Republican +18 (2024)
- Population
- 102,370
- Median household income
- $82,730
- Unemployment
- 3.7%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 57,919 56.6%
- Black or African American alone 5,881 5.7%
- Asian alone 730 0.7%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 1,329 1.3%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 30 0.0%
- Some other race alone 13,537 13.2%
- Two or more races 22,944 22.4%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 45,026 44.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 37.5
- Under 18 26,574 26.0%
- 18–24 8,914 8.7%
- 25–44 25,207 24.6%
- 45–64 26,058 25.5%
- 65 and over 15,617 15.3%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 3.7%
- -0.5 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $4.3B
- 0.16% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $54,112
- Establishments
- 1,830
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 5,565 24.6%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 5,366 23.8%
- Leisure & hospitality 3,480 15.4%
- Construction 1,972 8.7%
- Professional & business services 1,479 6.5%
- Public administration 1,325 5.9%
- Manufacturing 1,325 5.9%
- Financial activities 766 3.4%
- Other services 650 2.9%
- Natural resources & mining 382 1.7%
- Information 108 0.5%
- Unclassified 24 0.1%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 75.7%
- Median gross rent
- $1,342
- Owner-occupied
- 26,625
- Renter-occupied
- 8,539
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 39,788 votes cast
- Republican 23,301 58.6%
- Democratic 15,989 40.2%
- Other / third-party 498 1.3%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
66.0% speak only English at home
- Spanish 31,199 32.6%
- German 377 0.4%
- Vietnamese 174 0.2%
- Other Indo-European 172 0.2%
- Chinese 163 0.2%
- Other Asian/Pacific 153 0.2%
- Other 97 0.1%
- Tagalog 75 0.1%
- Slavic languages 46 0.0%
- French (incl. Cajun) 29 0.0%
- Korean 4 0.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 35,164
- Family households
- 24,923
- 70.9% of households
- Married w/ children
- 18,986
- Single-mother households
- 1,972
- Veterans
- 7,238
- 9.6% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
44.2% overall adherence rate
- 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%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 79.1%
- With a disability
- 12.1%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 23.3%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- 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 countys.
Traffic safety context
Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 33
- 43.54 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 28
NHTSA FARS 2023