Bee County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 8,608 27.7%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 19,208 61.8%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 2,255 7.3%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 156 0.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 768 2.5%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 13 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 75 0.2%

• Under 18 6,213 20.0%
• 18–24 3,609 11.6%
• 25–44 10,411 33.5%
• 45–64 6,900 22.2%
• 65 and over 3,950 12.7%

Median household income

$56,414

90% interval $51,328–$61,500

−$23,309 vs TX · 204th of 254

Below poverty line

24.2%

90% interval 18.1%–30.3%

+10.8 pp vs TX · 11th of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.9%

+0.55 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.1B

0.04% of state

Avg. annual pay

$48,442

Establishments

547

• Education & health services 2,874 33.9%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,278 15.1%
• Leisure & hospitality 925 10.9%
• Construction 493 5.8%
• Professional & business services 331 3.9%
• Public administration 257 3.0%
• Other services 248 2.9%
• Financial activities 236 2.8%
• Natural resources & mining 233 2.7%
• Manufacturing 226 2.7%
• Information 48 0.6%
• Unclassified 6 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 84.4% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

70.8%

+8.2 pp vs TX · 167th of 254

Median gross rent

$1,065

−$338 vs TX · 74th of 254

Owner-occupied

6,237

Renter-occupied

2,570

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 60% 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 (Construction, $75,646/yr) pays 3.8× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $19,828/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 15 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 6,111 69.5%
• Democratic 2,606 29.7%
• Other / third-party 72 0.8%

• Spanish 9,741 32.9%
• Tagalog 25 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 20 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 14 0.0%
• Arabic 13 0.0%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 1 0.0%

Households

8,807

Family households

5,682

64.5% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,757

30.9% of families

Single-mother families

781

13.7% of families

Veterans

1,645

6.6% of civilians 18+

• 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%

Health insured

81.2%

±3.3 pp

Uninsured

18.8%

±3.3 pp

77th of 254

With a disability

16.2%

±2.1 pp

111th of 254

Bachelor's or higher

14.0%

±1.9 pp

−19.8 pp vs TX · 216th of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

15.5%

90% interval 13.9%–17.1% · Census SAHIE

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

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 counties.

Traffic fatalities

10

40.21 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

6