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Bexar County, Texas

Democratic +9.7 (2024)
County seat
San Antonio
Judicial district
37th District Court
Population (July 2025 estimate)
2,160,088
Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 2,067,341.

At a glance

Bexar County is a 2,160,088-person venue. The county population is 42% White and 8% Black (Census race-alone categories). 60% identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race. Those figures overlap rather than adding up; counted separately, non-Hispanic White residents are 26.2%, which is the basis the chart below uses. Median household income is $72,578, $7,145 below the TX state median of $79,723; 31.8% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 37.0% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, most commonly Spanish and Tagalog. The largest employment sector is Education & health services, at 25.2% of covered employment, average pay $61,971/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 4.25%, below the 4.32% state average. The county carried the Democratic presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking 54% to 58% of the vote across the three.

Population
2,067,341
Median household income
$72,341
Unemployment
4.3%

Who sits on a jury?

Majority-minority

<50% in any single race-alone group. White here: 42%; Black: 8%.

Bexar County has a population of 2,067,341, with a median age of 34.8. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 42.3%; Black residents 7.9%. Independently, 59.7% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The median household earns $72,578; 31.8% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 14.6% live below the federal poverty line.

Race & ethnicity
  • White (non-Hispanic) 541,699 26.2%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,234,086 59.7%
  • Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 152,543 7.4%
  • Asian (non-Hispanic) 65,986 3.2%
  • Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 58,208 2.8%
  • American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 2,421 0.1%
  • Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 2,457 0.1%
  • Some other race (non-Hispanic) 9,941 0.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Age distribution

Median age 34.8

  • Under 18 510,042 24.7%
  • 18–24 208,025 10.1%
  • 25–44 620,019 30.0%
  • 45–64 463,071 22.4%
  • 65 and over 266,184 12.9%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Income & poverty
Median household income
$72,578
90% interval $70,607–$74,549
−$7,145 vs TX · 74th of 254
Below poverty line
14.6%
90% interval 13.7%–15.5%
+1.2 pp vs TX · 129th of 254

U.S. Census SAIPE 2024

Economic context

Healthcare & education anchored

Largest sector in BLS QCEW, even counting every withheld job toward the other sectors: Education & health services, about 25% of covered jobs.

Education & health services is the largest employment sector at 25.2% of covered employment, followed by Trade, transportation & utilities at 18.5%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 4.25%, below the Texas state average.

Local economy
Unemployment (12-mo)
4.3%
−0.07 pp vs. state
County GDP
$159.6B
5.76% of state
Avg. annual pay
$67,846
Establishments
45,165

U.S. BLS 2026M07 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2025

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

  • Education & health services 236,356 25.2%
  • Trade, transportation & utilities 173,462 18.5%
  • Professional & business services 126,541 13.5%
  • Leisure & hospitality 123,515 13.2%
  • Financial activities 78,765 8.4%
  • Construction 50,364 5.4%
  • Manufacturing 42,365 4.5%
  • Public administration 38,560 4.1%
  • Other services 25,969 2.8%
  • Information 14,969 1.6%
  • Natural resources & mining 3,607 0.4%
  • Unclassified 852 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 97.7% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

BLS QCEW 2025

Housing
Home ownership
58.8%
−3.8 pp vs TX · 240th of 254
Median gross rent
$1,354
−$49 vs TX · 26th of 254
Owner-occupied
441,921
Renter-occupied
309,018

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Local economy in 3 reads
  • Moderately concentrated

    Top three sectors employ 57% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

  • Wide wage spread

    Highest-paid sector (Natural resources & mining, $135,803/yr) pays 4.6× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $29,345/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

  • Institutional employer scale

    Average establishment employs 21 workers, typical of an institutional-employer economy where large hospitals, plants, schools, and government agencies dominate. Expect many panelists to share an employer rather than work for themselves.

BLS QCEW 2025

Political composition

Consistently Democratic

Democratic candidate carried this county in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (avg winning share: 56%). 'Strongly' threshold: ≥60% avg.

Bexar County was carried by the Democratic candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 54.3% in 2024, 58.3% in 2020, 54.5% in 2016.

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 757,547 votes cast

  • Republican
  • Democratic
Presidential vote share by year
YearRepublicanDemocratic
201641.0%54.5%
202040.1%58.3%
202444.6%54.3%
  • Democratic 411,389 54.3%
  • Republican 337,545 44.6%
  • Other / third-party 8,613 1.1%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Family-majority, linguistically diverse

Family households are 65% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 37.0% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).

37.0% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, Tagalog, Arabic. Veterans account for 9.6% of the adult civilian population (146,110 individuals).

Languages spoken at home

63.0% speak only English at home

  • Spanish 634,387 32.8%
  • Tagalog 8,258 0.4%
  • Arabic 7,789 0.4%
  • Vietnamese 5,982 0.3%
  • Chinese 5,923 0.3%
  • German or other West Germanic 4,920 0.3%
  • Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 3,291 0.2%
  • French, Haitian, or Cajun 3,282 0.2%
  • Korean 3,187 0.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Household composition
Households
750,939
Family households
488,547
65.1% of households
Married couples w/ children
140,647
28.8% of families
Single-mother families
61,084
12.5% of families
Veterans
146,110
9.6% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Religious composition

53.0% overall adherence rate

  • Catholic 553,664 27.6%
  • Evangelical Protestant 354,386 17.6%
  • Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 82,637 4.1%
  • Mainline Protestant 54,022 2.7%
  • Black Protestant 17,464 0.9%
  • Orthodox 2,814 0.1%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education
Health insured
84.0%
±0.4 pp
Uninsured
16.0%
±0.4 pp
141st of 254
With a disability
15.1%
±0.3 pp
139th of 254
Bachelor's or higher
31.8%
±0.5 pp
−2.0 pp vs TX · 32nd of 254
Uninsured, under 65 (2024)
18.1%
90% interval 17.3%–18.9% · Census SAHIE

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

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Court infrastructure

Court infrastructure
Trial court
37th District Court
Judges
25 (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
San Antonio
Court reference
Traffic safety context

Bexar totals, 2024

Traffic fatalities
218
14 per 100k adults (18+)
Fatal crashes
208

NHTSA FARS 2024

About this profile

This profile aggregates publicly available U.S. government statistics for Bexar County, Texas to give trial attorneys venue context for jury selection. It describes the general population of the county, not the qualified jury wheel, and is not legal advice or a substitute for the court's juror records.

Sources as of: U.S. Census ACS 2024 · U.S. BLS 2026M07 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2025 · Election results 2024 · NHTSA FARS 2024 · US Religion Census 2020.

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