Jury Pool Profile

Carson County, Texas

Republican +81 (2024)

Population: 5,802
Median household income: $84,583
Unemployment: 2.9%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 5,277 91.0%
Black or African American alone 35 0.6%
Asian alone 8 0.1%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 126 2.2%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 49 0.8%
Some other race alone 110 1.9%
Two or more races 197 3.4%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 608 10.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 42.3

Under 18 1,303 22.5%
18–24 506 8.7%
25–44 1,311 22.6%
45–64 1,409 24.3%
65 and over 1,273 21.9%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 2.9%; -1.29 pp vs. state
County GDP: $1.4B; 0.05% of state
Avg. annual pay: $98,977
Establishments: 190

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Construction 645 9.4%
Trade, transportation & utilities 358 5.2%
Education & health services 277 4.0%
Professional & business services 221 3.2%
Leisure & hospitality 76 1.1%
Financial activities 41 0.6%
Public administration 21 0.3%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 78.8%
Median gross rent: $933
Owner-occupied: 1,815
Renter-occupied: 487

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 3,172 votes cast

Republican 2,866 90.4%
Democratic 290 9.1%
Other / third-party 16 0.5%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

97.2% speak only English at home

Spanish 135 2.4%
Chinese 8 0.1%
Slavic languages 6 0.1%
Other Indo-European 5 0.1%
Other Asian/Pacific 1 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 2,302
Family households: 1,480; 64.3% of households
Married w/ children: 1,243
Single-mother households: 98
Veterans: 396; 8.8% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

57.4% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 2,365 40.7%
Mainline Protestant 496 8.5%
Catholic 468 8.1%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2 0.0%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 86.9%
With a disability: 11.5%
Bachelor's or higher: 25.9%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 100th 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: Childress, Clarendon, Memphis, Panhandle, Wellington

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 7; 155.59 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 7

NHTSA FARS 2023