Jury Pool Profile

Cass County, Texas

Republican +66 (2024)

Population: 28,582
Median household income: $54,328
Unemployment: 5.0%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 21,919 76.7%
Black or African American alone 4,789 16.8%
Asian alone 215 0.8%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 167 0.6%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
Some other race alone 197 0.7%
Two or more races 1,295 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,467 5.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 43.8

Under 18 6,461 22.6%
18–24 1,931 6.8%
25–44 6,249 21.9%
45–64 7,599 26.6%
65 and over 6,342 22.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 5.0%; +0.81 pp vs. state
County GDP: $1.5B; 0.05% of state
Avg. annual pay: $47,986
Establishments: 568

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 2,588 33.3%
Trade, transportation & utilities 1,506 19.4%
Manufacturing 1,318 16.9%
Leisure & hospitality 725 9.3%
Public administration 322 4.1%
Professional & business services 256 3.3%
Financial activities 252 3.2%
Construction 235 3.0%
Natural resources & mining 232 3.0%
Other services 133 1.7%
Information 28 0.4%
Unclassified 1 0.0%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 77.5%
Median gross rent: $821
Owner-occupied: 9,124
Renter-occupied: 2,651

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 14,140 votes cast

Republican 11,693 82.7%
Democratic 2,406 17.0%
Other / third-party 41 0.3%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

96.0% speak only English at home

Spanish 631 2.3%
German 238 0.9%
Chinese 87 0.3%
Vietnamese 35 0.1%
Other Indo-European 32 0.1%
Arabic 30 0.1%
Slavic languages 9 0.0%
Tagalog 6 0.0%
Other Asian/Pacific 1 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 11,775
Family households: 7,814; 66.4% of households
Married w/ children: 5,681
Single-mother households: 871
Veterans: 2,159; 9.8% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

67.4% overall adherence rate

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%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 87.7%
With a disability: 20.7%
Bachelor's or higher: 17.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

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

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 8; 36.16 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 8

NHTSA FARS 2023