Jury Pool Profile

Burnet County, Texas

Republican +56 (2024)

Population: 51,064
Median household income: $77,158
Unemployment: 3.7%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 41,635 81.5%
Black or African American alone 636 1.2%
Asian alone 346 0.7%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 395 0.8%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 59 0.1%
Some other race alone 2,576 5.0%
Two or more races 5,417 10.6%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 11,782 23.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 44.9

Under 18 10,464 20.5%
18–24 3,775 7.4%
25–44 11,346 22.2%
45–64 13,552 26.5%
65 and over 11,927 23.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.7%; -0.53 pp vs. state
County GDP: $2.7B; 0.1% of state
Avg. annual pay: $56,648
Establishments: 1,697

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Trade, transportation & utilities 3,669 21.8%
Education & health services 3,653 21.7%
Leisure & hospitality 2,172 12.9%
Construction 2,034 12.1%
Manufacturing 1,134 6.7%
Professional & business services 1,045 6.2%
Public administration 904 5.4%
Financial activities 874 5.2%
Other services 560 3.3%
Natural resources & mining 383 2.3%
Information 105 0.6%
Unclassified 39 0.2%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 77.3%
Median gross rent: $1,324
Owner-occupied: 15,139
Renter-occupied: 4,458

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 28,147 votes cast

Republican 21,795 77.4%
Democratic 6,114 21.7%
Other / third-party 238 0.8%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

84.5% speak only English at home

Spanish 6,974 14.4%
Other Indo-European 274 0.6%
German 138 0.3%
Vietnamese 72 0.1%
Other Asian/Pacific 34 0.1%
Other 18 0.0%
Tagalog 16 0.0%
French (incl. Cajun) 10 0.0%
Korean 8 0.0%
Slavic languages 4 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 19,597
Family households: 13,646; 69.6% of households
Married w/ children: 11,418
Single-mother households: 485
Veterans: 3,627; 8.9% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

53.7% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 11,086 22.6%
Catholic 10,608 21.6%
Mainline Protestant 3,270 6.7%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,223 2.5%
Black Protestant 202 0.4%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 83.8%
With a disability: 16.7%
Bachelor's or higher: 28.7%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 33rd 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: Burnet, Johnson City, Llano, San Saba

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 13; 32.02 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 11

NHTSA FARS 2023