Jury Pool Profile

Bell County, Texas

Republican +16 (2024)

Population: 379,811
Median household income: $66,051
Unemployment: 4.7%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 197,699 52.1%
Black or African American alone 88,579 23.3%
Asian alone 11,201 2.9%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 2,334 0.6%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 2,557 0.7%
Some other race alone 23,777 6.3%
Two or more races 53,664 14.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 98,037 25.8%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 32.1

Under 18 105,006 27.6%
18–24 40,947 10.8%
25–44 112,415 29.6%
45–64 77,448 20.4%
65 and over 43,995 11.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.7%; +0.49 pp vs. state
County GDP: $26.1B; 0.94% of state
Avg. annual pay: $62,107
Establishments: 6,521

U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 44,276 34.2%
Trade, transportation & utilities 26,803 20.7%
Leisure & hospitality 15,672 12.1%
Professional & business services 11,628 9.0%
Manufacturing 7,144 5.5%
Public administration 7,045 5.4%
Construction 6,836 5.3%
Financial activities 5,271 4.1%
Other services 3,533 2.7%
Information 815 0.6%
Natural resources & mining 480 0.4%
Unclassified 69 0.1%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 56.2%
Median gross rent: $1,168
Owner-occupied: 77,808
Renter-occupied: 60,749

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 130,557 votes cast

Republican 75,161 57.6%
Democratic 53,973 41.3%
Other / third-party 1,423 1.1%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

80.8% speak only English at home

Spanish 49,979 14.3%
German 2,565 0.7%
Korean 2,399 0.7%
Other Asian/Pacific 2,083 0.6%
Other 1,957 0.6%
Other Indo-European 1,771 0.5%
Tagalog 1,667 0.5%
French (incl. Cajun) 1,546 0.4%
Vietnamese 1,177 0.3%
Arabic 994 0.3%
Slavic languages 504 0.1%
Chinese 427 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 138,557
Family households: 93,701; 67.6% of households
Married w/ children: 65,734
Single-mother households: 14,072
Veterans: 49,214; 19.4% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

46.9% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 91,840 24.8%
Catholic 46,674 12.6%
Mainline Protestant 13,194 3.6%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 12,794 3.5%
Black Protestant 9,229 2.5%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 85.6%
With a disability: 15.0%
Bachelor's or higher: 27.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 27th District Court
Judges: 4 (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: Belton, Lampasas

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 58; 21.11 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 53

NHTSA FARS 2023