Callahan County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 11,539 81.0%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,598 11.2%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 165 1.2%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 82 0.6%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 731 5.1%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 5 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 8 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 113 0.8%

• Under 18 3,102 21.8%
• 18–24 1,121 7.9%
• 25–44 3,163 22.2%
• 45–64 3,870 27.2%
• 65 and over 2,985 21.0%

Median household income

$67,065

90% interval $59,260–$74,870

−$12,658 vs TX · 113th of 254

Below poverty line

11.5%

90% interval 8.5%–14.5%

−1.9 pp vs TX · 194th of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.4%

−0.93 pp vs. state

County GDP

$552.7M

0.02% of state

Avg. annual pay

$55,209

Establishments

334

• Trade, transportation & utilities 920 30.2%
• Education & health services 766 25.2%
• Leisure & hospitality 381 12.5%
• Construction 266 8.7%
• Public administration 146 4.8%
• Manufacturing 138 4.5%
• Professional & business services 119 3.9%
• Financial activities 117 3.8%
• Natural resources & mining 71 2.3%
• Other services 55 1.8%
• Information 18 0.6%
• Unclassified 5 0.2%

The sectors listed cover 98.7% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

80.9%

+18.3 pp vs TX · 37th of 254

Median gross rent

$817

−$586 vs TX · 191st of 254

Owner-occupied

4,240

Renter-occupied

999

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 68% 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 (Construction, $89,128/yr) pays 4.8× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $18,715/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Small-business scale

  Average establishment employs only 9.1 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

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

• Spanish 700 5.2%
• German or other West Germanic 109 0.8%
• Tagalog 22 0.2%
• Chinese 10 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 8 0.1%

Households

5,239

Family households

3,542

67.6% of households

Married couples w/ children

795

22.4% of families

Single-mother families

214

6.0% of families

Veterans

1,099

9.9% of civilians 18+

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

Health insured

84.5%

±2.5 pp

Uninsured

15.5%

±2.5 pp

155th of 254

With a disability

18.3%

±2.8 pp

75th of 254

Bachelor's or higher

24.0%

±3.5 pp

−9.8 pp vs TX · 76th of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

17.5%

90% interval 15.8%–19.2% · Census SAHIE

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

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

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

12

107.73 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

9