Jury Pool Profile

Brazoria County, Texas

Republican +20 (2024)

Population: 381,650
Median household income: $95,155
Unemployment: 4.6%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 204,171 53.5%
Black or African American alone 60,242 15.8%
Asian alone 27,891 7.3%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 1,655 0.4%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 73 0.0%
Some other race alone 21,062 5.5%
Two or more races 66,556 17.4%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 119,727 31.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 36.5

Under 18 98,742 25.9%
18–24 31,616 8.3%
25–44 109,625 28.7%
45–64 93,849 24.6%
65 and over 47,818 12.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.6%; +0.41 pp vs. state
County GDP: $23.4B; 0.84% of state
Avg. annual pay: $68,223
Establishments: 6,858

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 28,777 23.4%
Trade, transportation & utilities 23,234 18.9%
Construction 15,944 13.0%
Leisure & hospitality 15,941 13.0%
Manufacturing 12,351 10.1%
Professional & business services 9,917 8.1%
Public administration 5,992 4.9%
Financial activities 3,976 3.2%
Other services 3,564 2.9%
Natural resources & mining 1,693 1.4%
Information 363 0.3%
Unclassified 128 0.1%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 74.0%
Median gross rent: $1,410
Owner-occupied: 97,080
Renter-occupied: 34,104

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 161,950 votes cast

Republican 95,867 59.2%
Democratic 63,976 39.5%
Other / third-party 2,107 1.3%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

72.9% speak only English at home

Spanish 69,008 19.3%
Vietnamese 5,021 1.4%
Other Indo-European 4,057 1.1%
Chinese 4,008 1.1%
Other Asian/Pacific 3,805 1.1%
Tagalog 3,723 1.0%
Other 2,429 0.7%
French (incl. Cajun) 1,435 0.4%
Arabic 1,320 0.4%
German 769 0.2%
Korean 704 0.2%
Slavic languages 603 0.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 131,184
Family households: 97,010; 73.9% of households
Married w/ children: 74,099
Single-mother households: 8,827
Veterans: 17,336; 6.1% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

57.2% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 99,614 26.8%
Catholic 71,746 19.3%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 23,733 6.4%
Mainline Protestant 11,879 3.2%
Black Protestant 5,609 1.5%
Orthodox 65 0.0%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 87.2%
With a disability: 10.6%
Bachelor's or higher: 32.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 23rd District Court
Judges: 5 (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: Angleton, Bay City, Wharton

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 34; 12.02 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 33

NHTSA FARS 2023