Bowie County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 56,074 60.9%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 7,938 8.6%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 22,755 24.7%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 1,273 1.4%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 3,463 3.8%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 320 0.3%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 118 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 174 0.2%

• Under 18 21,902 23.8%
• 18–24 7,788 8.5%
• 25–44 24,282 26.4%
• 45–64 21,978 23.9%
• 65 and over 16,165 17.5%

Median household income

$62,559

90% interval $57,418–$67,700

−$17,164 vs TX · 151st of 254

Below poverty line

16.2%

90% interval 13.2%–19.2%

+2.8 pp vs TX · 85th of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.3%

+0.01 pp vs. state

County GDP

$5.2B

0.19% of state

Avg. annual pay

$54,927

Establishments

2,445

• Education & health services 11,400 26.9%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 9,847 23.2%
• Leisure & hospitality 5,049 11.9%
• Professional & business services 3,364 7.9%
• Public administration 3,324 7.8%
• Manufacturing 2,582 6.1%
• Financial activities 2,035 4.8%
• Construction 1,930 4.6%
• Other services 1,086 2.6%
• Information 195 0.5%
• Natural resources & mining 137 0.3%
• Unclassified 27 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 96.7% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

63.4%

+0.8 pp vs TX · 224th of 254

Median gross rent

$988

−$415 vs TX · 110th of 254

Owner-occupied

22,253

Renter-occupied

12,820

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 62% 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 (Information, $77,964/yr) pays 3.5× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $22,175/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 17 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 27,122 74.0%
• Democratic 9,282 25.3%
• Other / third-party 225 0.6%

• Spanish 5,074 5.8%
• Vietnamese 223 0.3%
• Tagalog 212 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 123 0.1%
• Korean 117 0.1%
• Chinese 109 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 78 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 69 0.1%
• Arabic 50 0.1%

Households

35,073

Family households

22,181

63.2% of households

Married couples w/ children

5,904

26.6% of families

Single-mother families

2,751

12.4% of families

Veterans

5,820

8.3% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 44,823 48.3%
• Black Protestant 8,184 8.8%
• Mainline Protestant 6,081 6.5%
• Catholic 4,436 4.8%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,757 1.9%

Health insured

86.6%

±1.4 pp

Uninsured

13.4%

±1.4 pp

201st of 254

With a disability

14.7%

±0.9 pp

155th of 254

Bachelor's or higher

23.6%

±1.5 pp

−10.2 pp vs TX · 84th of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

16.0%

90% interval 14.6%–17.4% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

5th 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

Linden, New Boston

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

11

15.67 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

10