Jury Pool Profile

Brazos County, Texas

Republican +25 (2024)

Population: 237,980
Median household income: $58,388
Unemployment: 3.5%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 157,983 66.4%
Black or African American alone 25,666 10.8%
Asian alone 13,608 5.7%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 1,362 0.6%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 264 0.1%
Some other race alone 10,993 4.6%
Two or more races 28,104 11.8%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 64,536 27.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 26.8

Under 18 48,241 20.3%
18–24 63,372 26.6%
25–44 62,342 26.2%
45–64 40,649 17.1%
65 and over 23,376 9.8%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.5%; -0.71 pp vs. state
County GDP: $15.7B; 0.57% of state
Avg. annual pay: $54,374
Establishments: 5,241

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 49,196 39.8%
Leisure & hospitality 18,664 15.1%
Trade, transportation & utilities 16,258 13.2%
Professional & business services 11,598 9.4%
Public administration 5,848 4.7%
Manufacturing 5,584 4.5%
Construction 5,174 4.2%
Financial activities 4,217 3.4%
Other services 2,907 2.4%
Natural resources & mining 1,935 1.6%
Information 1,330 1.1%
Unclassified 92 0.1%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 46.8%
Median gross rent: $1,160
Owner-occupied: 41,372
Renter-occupied: 47,043

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 91,847 votes cast

Republican 56,671 61.7%
Democratic 33,844 36.8%
Other / third-party 1,332 1.5%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

75.8% speak only English at home

Spanish 38,334 17.1%
Other Indo-European 4,175 1.9%
Chinese 3,025 1.3%
Other Asian/Pacific 2,410 1.1%
Korean 1,392 0.6%
Arabic 1,132 0.5%
German 814 0.4%
Vietnamese 749 0.3%
Other 745 0.3%
French (incl. Cajun) 651 0.3%
Slavic languages 586 0.3%
Tagalog 386 0.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 88,415
Family households: 48,499; 54.9% of households
Married w/ children: 34,129
Single-mother households: 6,018
Veterans: 8,078; 4.3% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

39.8% overall adherence rate

Catholic 36,882 15.8%
Evangelical Protestant 33,700 14.4%
Mainline Protestant 11,916 5.1%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 6,212 2.7%
Black Protestant 4,036 1.7%
Orthodox 247 0.1%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 88.1%
With a disability: 10.2%
Bachelor's or higher: 42.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 85th 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: Bryan

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 13; 6.85 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 13

NHTSA FARS 2023