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Borden County, Texas

Republican +91.5 (2024)
County seat
Gail
Judicial district
132nd District Court
Population (July 2025 estimate)
567
Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 713.

At a glance

Borden County is a 567-person venue. The county population is 90% White (Census race-alone categories). Median household income is $96,586, $16,863 above the TX state median of $79,723; 36.9% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 4.7% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home. The largest published sector is Trade, transportation & utilities, at 26.4% of covered employment, average pay $57,301/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.86%, below the 4.32% state average. The county carried the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking 90% to 96% of the vote across the three.

Population
713
Median household income
$65,625
Unemployment
3.9%

Who sits on a jury?

Predominantly White

≥70% White (race-alone) and <20% Black. This county: 90% / 1%.

Borden County has a population of 713, with a median age of 32.2. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 90.5%; Black residents 0.6%. Independently, 8.4% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The median household earns $96,586; 36.9% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 10.2% live below the federal poverty line.

Race & ethnicity
  • White (non-Hispanic) 643 90.2%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 60 8.4%
  • Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 4 0.6%
  • Asian (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
  • Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 6 0.8%
  • American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
  • Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
  • Some other race (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Age distribution

Median age 32.2

  • Under 18 251 35.2%
  • 18–24 31 4.3%
  • 25–44 183 25.7%
  • 45–64 125 17.5%
  • 65 and over 123 17.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Income & poverty
Median household income
$96,586
90% interval $84,711–$108,461
+$16,863 vs TX · 18th of 254
Below poverty line
10.2%
90% interval 7.6%–12.8%
−3.2 pp vs TX · 220th of 254

U.S. Census SAIPE 2024

Economic context

Led by healthcare & education and trade & transportation

Counting the cells BLS withholds (private jobs estimated from Census County Business Patterns, government jobs from the statewide mix), the two largest sectors are within 20% of each other: Education & health services about 100, Trade, transportation & utilities about 90.

Trade, transportation & utilities is the largest published sector at 26.4% of covered employment, followed by Natural resources & mining at 12.2%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.86%, below the Texas state average.

Local economy
Unemployment (12-mo)
3.9%
−0.46 pp vs. state
County GDP
$1.1B
0.04% of state
Avg. annual pay
$83,002
Establishments
69

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

  • Trade, transportation & utilities 91 26.4%
  • Natural resources & mining 42 12.2%
  • Construction 39 11.3%
  • Professional & business services 28 8.1%
  • Public administration 14 4.1%

The sectors listed cover 62.0% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

BLS QCEW 2025

Housing
Home ownership
66.3%
+3.7 pp vs TX · 207th of 254
Owner-occupied
161
Renter-occupied
82

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Local economy in 3 reads
  • Diversified

    Top three sectors employ 50% of the workforce, a relatively diversified local economy. Expect mixed employer backgrounds on the panel rather than concentration in any one institution or industry.

  • Small-business scale

    Average establishment employs only 5.0 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

  • Small-sector pay

    The $265,958 average in Construction is BLS's published figure for 39 jobs. With so few jobs, a few high-paying employers or contracts can set the average, so it is left out of the wage-spread read. The $96,486 average in Professional & business services is BLS's published figure for 28 jobs. With so few jobs, a few high-paying employers or contracts can set the average, so it is left out of the wage-spread read.

BLS QCEW 2025

Political composition

Consistently strongly Republican

Republican candidate carried this county in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (avg winning share: 94%). 'Strongly' threshold: ≥60% avg.

Borden County was carried by the Republican candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 95.6% in 2024, 95.4% in 2020, 90.4% in 2016.

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 387 votes cast

  • Republican
  • Democratic
Presidential vote share by year
YearRepublicanDemocratic
201690.4%8.5%
202095.4%3.8%
202495.6%4.1%
  • Republican 370 95.6%
  • Democratic 16 4.1%
  • Other / third-party 1 0.3%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Family-dominant, English-speaking

Family households are 83% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 4.7% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).

4.7% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are German or other West Germanic, Spanish. Veterans account for 5.0% of the adult civilian population (23 individuals).

Languages spoken at home

95.3% speak only English at home

  • German or other West Germanic 20 3.1%
  • Spanish 7 1.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Household composition
Households
243
Family households
201
82.7% of households
Married couples w/ children
93
46.3% of families
Single-mother families
12
6.0% of families
Veterans
23
5% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Religious composition

43.4% overall adherence rate

  • Evangelical Protestant 274 43.4%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education
Health insured
97.3%
±2.3 pp — too imprecise at this sample size to compare
With a disability
11.5%
±5.2 pp
217th of 254
Bachelor's or higher
36.9%
±11.8 pp
+3.1 pp vs TX · 16th of 254
Uninsured, under 65 (2024)
13.7%
90% interval 12.0%–15.4% · 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
132nd 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
Gail, Snyder

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Court reference
Traffic safety context

Borden totals, 2024 — the per-100k rate is based on 0 recorded deaths, too few to be statistically reliable

Traffic fatalities
0
0 per 100k adults (18+)
Fatal crashes
0

NHTSA FARS 2024

About this profile

This profile aggregates publicly available U.S. government statistics for Borden 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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