Jury Pool Profile

Bowie County, Texas

Republican +49 (2024)

Population: 92,321
Median household income: $59,295
Unemployment: 4.1%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 60,611 65.7%
Black or African American alone 22,965 24.9%
Asian alone 1,162 1.3%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 389 0.4%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 173 0.2%
Some other race alone 2,208 2.4%
Two or more races 4,813 5.2%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 7,726 8.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 38.4

Under 18 22,050 23.9%
18–24 7,878 8.5%
25–44 24,174 26.2%
45–64 22,221 24.1%
65 and over 15,998 17.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.1%; -0.08 pp vs. state
County GDP: $5.2B; 0.19% of state
Avg. annual pay: $53,061
Establishments: 2,482

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 12,114 28.7%
Trade, transportation & utilities 9,756 23.1%
Leisure & hospitality 5,025 11.9%
Professional & business services 3,625 8.6%
Public administration 3,265 7.7%
Manufacturing 2,390 5.7%
Construction 1,986 4.7%
Financial activities 1,846 4.4%
Other services 1,065 2.5%
Information 203 0.5%
Natural resources & mining 140 0.3%
Unclassified 24 0.1%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 62.7%
Median gross rent: $966
Owner-occupied: 21,818
Renter-occupied: 12,983

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 36,629 votes cast

Republican 27,122 74.0%
Democratic 9,282 25.3%
Other / third-party 225 0.6%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

93.1% speak only English at home

Spanish 4,514 5.2%
Other Indo-European 526 0.6%
Tagalog 228 0.3%
Vietnamese 127 0.1%
Korean 125 0.1%
German 115 0.1%
Slavic languages 110 0.1%
Chinese 72 0.1%
Arabic 58 0.1%
Other Asian/Pacific 52 0.1%
French (incl. Cajun) 33 0.0%
Other 21 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 34,801
Family households: 22,656; 65.1% of households
Married w/ children: 15,580
Single-mother households: 2,878
Veterans: 5,943; 8.5% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

70.3% overall adherence rate

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%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 84.6%
With a disability: 13.7%
Bachelor's or higher: 22.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

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

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 15; 21.35 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 14

NHTSA FARS 2023