Jury Pool Profile

Callahan County, Texas

Republican +78 (2024)

Population: 14,017
Median household income: $68,455
Unemployment: 3.4%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 11,997 85.6%
Black or African American alone 245 1.7%
Asian alone 77 0.5%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 7 0.0%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 28 0.2%
Some other race alone 261 1.9%
Two or more races 1,402 10.0%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,487 10.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 43.8

Under 18 3,005 21.4%
18–24 1,208 8.6%
25–44 3,068 21.9%
45–64 3,825 27.3%
65 and over 2,911 20.8%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.4%; -0.8 pp vs. state
County GDP: $552.7M; 0.02% of state
Avg. annual pay: $52,912
Establishments: 340

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Trade, transportation & utilities 796 26.8%
Education & health services 761 25.6%
Leisure & hospitality 378 12.7%
Construction 308 10.4%
Professional & business services 153 5.1%
Public administration 148 5.0%
Manufacturing 136 4.6%
Financial activities 105 3.5%
Natural resources & mining 71 2.4%
Other services 45 1.5%
Information 21 0.7%
Unclassified 10 0.3%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 82.0%
Median gross rent: $881
Owner-occupied: 4,292
Renter-occupied: 945

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 6,985 votes cast

Republican 6,180 88.5%
Democratic 761 10.9%
Other / third-party 44 0.6%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

93.7% speak only English at home

Spanish 626 4.7%
German 147 1.1%
Other Indo-European 28 0.2%
Chinese 25 0.2%
French (incl. Cajun) 10 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 5,237
Family households: 3,420; 65.3% of households
Married w/ children: 2,767
Single-mother households: 223
Veterans: 1,049; 9.6% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

51.6% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 5,866 42.8%
Mainline Protestant 955 7.0%
Catholic 248 1.8%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 83.8%
With a disability: 18.9%
Bachelor's or higher: 23.9%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 42nd 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: Abilene, Albany, Baird, Coleman

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 7; 63.57 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 5

NHTSA FARS 2023