Jury Pool Profile
Bee County, Texas
Republican +40 (2024)
- Population
- 31,000
- Median household income
- $56,075
- Unemployment
- 4.9%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 17,754 57.3%
- Black or African American alone 1,883 6.1%
- Asian alone 181 0.6%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 251 0.8%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
- Some other race alone 2,390 7.7%
- Two or more races 8,541 27.6%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 19,187 61.9%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 35.8
- Under 18 6,358 20.5%
- 18–24 3,147 10.2%
- 25–44 10,753 34.7%
- 45–64 6,836 22.1%
- 65 and over 3,906 12.6%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 4.9%
- +0.65 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $1.1B
- 0.04% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $46,987
- Establishments
- 558
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 2,847 33.7%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 1,314 15.5%
- Public administration 1,276 15.1%
- Leisure & hospitality 938 11.1%
- Construction 431 5.1%
- Professional & business services 366 4.3%
- Natural resources & mining 280 3.3%
- Manufacturing 257 3.0%
- Other services 256 3.0%
- Financial activities 228 2.7%
- Information 34 0.4%
- Unclassified 3 0.0%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 72.1%
- Median gross rent
- $1,028
- Owner-occupied
- 6,188
- Renter-occupied
- 2,393
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 8,789 votes cast
- Republican 6,111 69.5%
- Democratic 2,606 29.7%
- Other / third-party 72 0.8%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
65.4% speak only English at home
- Spanish 9,895 33.6%
- Other Indo-European 98 0.3%
- Tagalog 63 0.2%
- Other 43 0.1%
- German 41 0.1%
- French (incl. Cajun) 22 0.1%
- Slavic languages 16 0.1%
- Arabic 11 0.0%
- Other Asian/Pacific 6 0.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 8,581
- Family households
- 5,469
- 63.7% of households
- Married w/ children
- 3,630
- Single-mother households
- 634
- Veterans
- 1,582
- 6.4% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
53.3% overall adherence rate
- Catholic 9,454 30.5%
- Evangelical Protestant 4,940 15.9%
- Mainline Protestant 1,273 4.1%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 644 2.1%
- Black Protestant 250 0.8%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 81.9%
- With a disability
- 15.8%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 11.4%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 36th 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
- Beeville, George West, Rockport, Sinton, Tilden
This judicial district spans multiple countys.
Traffic safety context
Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 4
- 16.23 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 4
NHTSA FARS 2023