Brown County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 26,810 69.9%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 8,617 22.5%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 1,360 3.5%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 228 0.6%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,088 2.8%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 48 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 11 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 185 0.5%

• Under 18 7,819 20.4%
• 18–24 3,422 8.9%
• 25–44 9,244 24.1%
• 45–64 9,800 25.6%
• 65 and over 8,062 21.0%

Median household income

$60,291

90% interval $54,397–$66,185

−$19,432 vs TX · 168th of 254

Below poverty line

16.7%

90% interval 13.8%–19.6%

+3.3 pp vs TX · 78th of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.0%

−0.27 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.0B

0.07% of state

Avg. annual pay

$50,356

Establishments

938

• Education & health services 5,044 32.4%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 2,924 18.8%
• Manufacturing 2,396 15.4%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,520 9.8%
• Professional & business services 603 3.9%
• Financial activities 587 3.8%
• Public administration 462 3.0%
• Other services 289 1.9%

The sectors listed cover 88.8% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

68.3%

+5.7 pp vs TX · 189th of 254

Median gross rent

$919

−$484 vs TX · 146th of 254

Owner-occupied

10,223

Renter-occupied

4,749

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 67% of the county workforce. Most panelists likely share employer relationships within these sectors, surface those connections early in voir dire before any institutional-defendant or sector-specific framing.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Manufacturing, $82,594/yr) pays 4.0× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $20,502/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• 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 14,593 86.6%
• Democratic 2,132 12.7%
• Other / third-party 128 0.8%

• Spanish 5,283 14.5%
• Chinese 80 0.2%
• German or other West Germanic 50 0.1%
• Vietnamese 48 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 47 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 22 0.1%
• Arabic 13 0.0%
• Tagalog 5 0.0%

Households

14,972

Family households

9,581

64.0% of households

Married couples w/ children

2,073

21.6% of families

Single-mother families

1,125

11.7% of families

Veterans

2,209

7.2% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 18,427 48.4%
• Mainline Protestant 3,101 8.1%
• Catholic 1,492 3.9%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 657 1.7%
• Black Protestant 100 0.3%

Health insured

84.5%

±1.7 pp

Uninsured

15.5%

±1.7 pp

154th of 254

With a disability

22.8%

±2 pp

25th of 254

Bachelor's or higher

20.2%

±2.1 pp

−13.6 pp vs TX · 132nd of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

18.2%

90% interval 16.6%–19.8% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

35th 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

Brownwood, Goldthwaite

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

10

32.76 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

10