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Jury Pool Profile

Coleman County, Texas

Republican +79.0 (2024)
County seat
Coleman
Judicial district
42nd District Court
Population (July 2025 estimate)
7,915
Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 7,833.

At a glance

Coleman County is a 7,915-person venue. The county population is 78% White (Census race-alone categories). 17% identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race. Median household income is $52,648, $27,075 below the TX state median of $79,723; 16.8% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 15.6% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, most commonly Spanish, then other and unspecified languages (2.2%), a group the Census does not break out. The largest employment sector is Education & health services, at 29.0% of covered employment, average pay $41,481/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.8%, below the 4.32% state average. The county carried the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking 87% to 89% of the vote across the three.

Population
7,833
Median household income
$49,159
Unemployment
3.8%

Who sits on a jury?

Predominantly White

≥70% White (race-alone) and <20% Black. This county: 78% / 5%.

Coleman County has a population of 7,833, with a median age of 48.7. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 77.7%; Black residents 4.6%. Independently, 16.6% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The median household earns $52,648; 16.8% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 18.8% live below the federal poverty line.

Race & ethnicity
  • White (non-Hispanic) 5,988 76.4%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,297 16.6%
  • Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 348 4.4%
  • Asian (non-Hispanic) 44 0.6%
  • Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 144 1.8%
  • American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 2 0.0%
  • Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
  • Some other race (non-Hispanic) 10 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Age distribution

Median age 48.7

  • Under 18 1,611 20.6%
  • 18–24 528 6.7%
  • 25–44 1,529 19.5%
  • 45–64 2,112 27.0%
  • 65 and over 2,053 26.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Income & poverty
Median household income
$52,648
90% interval $46,635–$58,661
−$27,075 vs TX · 229th of 254
Below poverty line
18.8%
90% interval 14.8%–22.8%
+5.4 pp vs TX · 50th of 254

U.S. Census SAIPE 2024

Economic context

Healthcare & education anchored

Largest sector in BLS QCEW, even counting every withheld job toward the other sectors: Education & health services, about 29% of covered jobs.

Education & health services is the largest employment sector at 29.0% of covered employment, followed by Trade, transportation & utilities at 18.8%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.8%, below the Texas state average.

Local economy
Unemployment (12-mo)
3.8%
−0.52 pp vs. state
County GDP
$280.5M
0.01% of state
Avg. annual pay
$47,964
Establishments
244

U.S. BLS 2026M07 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2025

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

  • Education & health services 618 29.0%
  • Trade, transportation & utilities 401 18.8%
  • Leisure & hospitality 214 10.0%
  • Construction 133 6.2%
  • Manufacturing 130 6.1%
  • Financial activities 123 5.8%
  • Public administration 120 5.6%
  • Natural resources & mining 100 4.7%
  • Professional & business services 95 4.5%
  • Information 40 1.9%
  • Other services 28 1.3%
  • Unclassified 2 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 94.0% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

BLS QCEW 2025

Housing
Home ownership
77.2%
+14.6 pp vs TX · 89th of 254
Median gross rent
$653
−$750 vs TX · 234th of 254
Owner-occupied
2,580
Renter-occupied
763

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Local economy in 3 reads
  • Moderately concentrated

    Top three sectors employ 58% 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 (Financial activities, $96,671/yr) pays 4.4× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $21,820/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

  • Small-business scale

    Average establishment employs only 8.7 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

BLS QCEW 2025

Political composition

Consistently strongly Republican

Republican candidate carried this county in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (avg winning share: 88%). 'Strongly' threshold: ≥60% avg.

Coleman County was carried by the Republican candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 89.3% in 2024, 88.3% in 2020, 87.4% in 2016.

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 4,155 votes cast

  • Republican
  • Democratic
Presidential vote share by year
YearRepublicanDemocratic
201687.4%10.6%
202088.3%10.9%
202489.3%10.3%
  • Republican 3,712 89.3%
  • Democratic 428 10.3%
  • Other / third-party 15 0.4%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Family-majority, linguistically diverse

Family households are 58% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 15.6% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).

15.6% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, Tagalog, Chinese. Veterans account for 8.4% of the adult civilian population (523 individuals).

Languages spoken at home

84.4% speak only English at home

  • Spanish 958 12.9%
  • Tagalog 17 0.2%
  • Chinese 8 0.1%
  • German or other West Germanic 7 0.1%
  • Vietnamese 5 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Household composition
Households
3,343
Family households
1,937
57.9% of households
Married couples w/ children
390
20.1% of families
Single-mother families
154
8.0% of families
Veterans
523
8.4% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Religious composition

63.0% overall adherence rate

  • Evangelical Protestant 3,646 47.4%
  • Catholic 664 8.6%
  • Mainline Protestant 482 6.3%
  • Black Protestant 50 0.7%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education
Health insured
78.7%
±4.7 pp
Uninsured
21.3%
±4.7 pp
43rd of 254
With a disability
26.1%
±3.4 pp
10th of 254
Bachelor's or higher
16.8%
±3.6 pp
−17.0 pp vs TX · 178th of 254
Uninsured, under 65 (2024)
19.7%
90% interval 17.7%–21.7% · Census SAHIE

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

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Court infrastructure

Court infrastructure
Trial court
42nd 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
Abilene, Albany, Baird, Coleman

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Court reference
Traffic safety context

Coleman totals, 2024 — the per-100k rate is based on 5 recorded deaths, too few to be statistically reliable

Traffic fatalities
5
80.36 per 100k adults (18+)
Fatal crashes
5

NHTSA FARS 2024

About this profile

This profile aggregates publicly available U.S. government statistics for Coleman County, Texas to give trial attorneys venue context for jury selection. It describes the general population of the county, not the qualified jury wheel, and is not legal advice or a substitute for the court's juror records.

Sources as of: U.S. Census ACS 2024 · U.S. BLS 2026M07 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2025 · Election results 2024 · NHTSA FARS 2024 · US Religion Census 2020.

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