Jury Pool Profile
Cherokee County, Texas
Republican +63 (2024)
- Population
- 51,143
- Median household income
- $59,830
- Unemployment
- 4.3%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 34,347 67.2%
- Black or African American alone 6,675 13.1%
- Asian alone 313 0.6%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 720 1.4%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
- Some other race alone 2,360 4.6%
- Two or more races 6,728 13.2%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 12,143 23.7%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 38.2
- Under 18 13,000 25.4%
- 18–24 4,147 8.1%
- 25–44 12,624 24.7%
- 45–64 12,177 23.8%
- 65 and over 9,195 18.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 4.3%
- +0.11 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $2.1B
- 0.08% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $51,098
- Establishments
- 906
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 4,483 30.0%
- Manufacturing 2,583 17.3%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 2,465 16.5%
- Leisure & hospitality 1,248 8.4%
- Professional & business services 1,012 6.8%
- Construction 621 4.2%
- Natural resources & mining 607 4.1%
- Financial activities 583 3.9%
- Public administration 388 2.6%
- Other services 184 1.2%
- Information 51 0.3%
- Unclassified 10 0.1%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 72.7%
- Median gross rent
- $880
- Owner-occupied
- 13,155
- Renter-occupied
- 4,930
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 20,502 votes cast
- Republican 16,593 80.9%
- Democratic 3,744 18.3%
- Other / third-party 165 0.8%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
79.7% speak only English at home
- Spanish 9,424 19.8%
- Tagalog 142 0.3%
- Vietnamese 59 0.1%
- Other Indo-European 13 0.0%
- Other 9 0.0%
- German 8 0.0%
- Other Asian/Pacific 8 0.0%
- Korean 6 0.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 18,085
- Family households
- 13,582
- 75.1% of households
- Married w/ children
- 9,485
- Single-mother households
- 1,812
- Veterans
- 2,627
- 6.9% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
59.8% overall adherence rate
- Evangelical Protestant 18,522 36.7%
- Catholic 5,415 10.7%
- Black Protestant 2,808 5.6%
- Mainline Protestant 2,647 5.3%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 704 1.4%
- Orthodox 35 0.1%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 79.6%
- With a disability
- 12.4%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 18.5%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 2nd 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
- Rusk
Traffic safety context
Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 14
- 36.7 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 12
NHTSA FARS 2023