Chambers County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 31,679 61.5%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 13,637 26.5%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 3,867 7.5%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 779 1.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,399 2.7%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 85 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 52 0.1%

• Under 18 14,126 27.4%
• 18–24 4,720 9.2%
• 25–44 14,568 28.3%
• 45–64 11,593 22.5%
• 65 and over 6,491 12.6%

Median household income

$106,175

90% interval $94,063–$118,287

+$26,452 vs TX · 10th of 254

Below poverty line

7.9%

90% interval 6.0%–9.8%

−5.5 pp vs TX · 243rd of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.2%

+0.85 pp vs. state

County GDP

$3.7B

0.14% of state

Avg. annual pay

$78,532

Establishments

959

• Trade, transportation & utilities 6,890 29.6%
• Education & health services 3,968 17.1%
• Manufacturing 3,309 14.2%
• Leisure & hospitality 2,217 9.5%
• Construction 1,917 8.2%
• Other services 1,380 5.9%
• Professional & business services 1,324 5.7%
• Public administration 881 3.8%
• Natural resources & mining 700 3.0%

The sectors listed cover 97.2% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

81.6%

+19.0 pp vs TX · 31st of 254

Median gross rent

$1,609

+$206 vs TX · 8th of 254

Owner-occupied

14,052

Renter-occupied

3,177

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 61% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Manufacturing, $122,731/yr) pays 5.0× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $24,781/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 24 workers, typical of an institutional-employer economy where large hospitals, plants, schools, and government agencies dominate. Expect many panelists to share an employer rather than work for themselves.

• Republican 20,567 82.4%
• Democratic 4,192 16.8%
• Other / third-party 212 0.8%

• Spanish 8,991 18.7%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 313 0.7%
• Vietnamese 145 0.3%
• Tagalog 102 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 94 0.2%
• German or other West Germanic 50 0.1%

Households

17,229

Family households

13,768

79.9% of households

Married couples w/ children

5,254

38.2% of families

Single-mother families

879

6.4% of families

Veterans

2,833

7.6% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 7,696 16.5%
• Catholic 5,151 11.1%
• Mainline Protestant 1,667 3.6%
• Black Protestant 1,520 3.3%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 576 1.2%

Health insured

84.1%

±2.5 pp

Uninsured

15.9%

±2.5 pp

143rd of 254

With a disability

11.3%

±1.5 pp

222nd of 254

Bachelor's or higher

21.9%

±2.5 pp

−11.9 pp vs TX · 105th of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

14.3%

90% interval 13.1%–15.5% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

253rd 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

Anahuac

Traffic fatalities

13

34.79 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

12