Cass County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 21,256 74.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,548 5.4%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 4,632 16.2%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 200 0.7%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 741 2.6%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 60 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 131 0.5%

• Under 18 6,413 22.4%
• 18–24 1,921 6.7%
• 25–44 6,175 21.6%
• 45–64 7,627 26.7%
• 65 and over 6,432 22.5%

Median household income

$52,449

90% interval $48,689–$56,209

−$27,274 vs TX · 232nd of 254

Below poverty line

16.5%

90% interval 13.3%–19.7%

+3.1 pp vs TX · 82nd of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.1%

+0.79 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.5B

0.05% of state

Avg. annual pay

$50,225

Establishments

559

• Education & health services 2,624 33.1%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,613 20.4%
• Manufacturing 1,341 16.9%
• Leisure & hospitality 729 9.2%
• Financial activities 274 3.5%
• Public administration 267 3.4%
• Construction 243 3.1%
• Professional & business services 229 2.9%
• Natural resources & mining 215 2.7%

The sectors listed cover 95.1% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

76.6%

+14.0 pp vs TX · 98th of 254

Median gross rent

$852

−$551 vs TX · 174th of 254

Owner-occupied

9,041

Renter-occupied

2,764

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 70% 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, $85,036/yr) pays 4.5× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $19,086/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 14 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 11,693 82.7%
• Democratic 2,406 17.0%
• Other / third-party 41 0.3%

• Spanish 732 2.7%
• German or other West Germanic 249 0.9%
• Arabic 36 0.1%
• Chinese 16 0.1%
• Tagalog 14 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 13 0.0%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 13 0.0%
• Vietnamese 1 0.0%

Households

11,805

Family households

7,808

66.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,736

22.2% of families

Single-mother families

940

12.0% of families

Veterans

2,069

9.3% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 15,580 54.8%
• Black Protestant 1,688 5.9%
• Mainline Protestant 1,263 4.4%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 357 1.3%
• Catholic 303 1.1%

Health insured

86.5%

±2 pp

Uninsured

13.5%

±2 pp

198th of 254

With a disability

19.5%

±2 pp

56th of 254

Bachelor's or higher

18.9%

±2.3 pp

−14.9 pp vs TX · 147th of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

17.2%

90% interval 15.6%–18.8% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

5th 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

Linden, New Boston

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

10

45.14 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

7