Jury Pool Profile

Cooke County, Texas

Republican +67 (2024)

Population: 42,473
Median household income: $72,472
Unemployment: 3.6%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 33,507 78.9%
Black or African American alone 1,411 3.3%
Asian alone 294 0.7%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 225 0.5%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 14 0.0%
Some other race alone 1,752 4.1%
Two or more races 5,270 12.4%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 8,719 20.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 40.3

Under 18 9,947 23.4%
18–24 3,782 8.9%
25–44 10,011 23.6%
45–64 10,836 25.5%
65 and over 7,897 18.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.6%; -0.64 pp vs. state
County GDP: $3.4B; 0.12% of state
Avg. annual pay: $62,891
Establishments: 1,110

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Manufacturing 3,156 19.1%
Education & health services 2,977 18.0%
Trade, transportation & utilities 2,932 17.7%
Natural resources & mining 1,939 11.7%
Leisure & hospitality 1,592 9.6%
Construction 885 5.4%
Financial activities 795 4.8%
Professional & business services 753 4.6%
Public administration 699 4.2%
Other services 448 2.7%
Information 144 0.9%
Unclassified 13 0.1%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 72.2%
Median gross rent: $1,088
Owner-occupied: 11,727
Renter-occupied: 4,525

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 20,432 votes cast

Republican 16,975 83.1%
Democratic 3,310 16.2%
Other / third-party 147 0.7%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

85.1% speak only English at home

Spanish 5,447 13.7%
Other Indo-European 267 0.7%
Tagalog 96 0.2%
Slavic languages 59 0.1%
German 23 0.1%
French (incl. Cajun) 14 0.0%
Vietnamese 9 0.0%
Chinese 8 0.0%
Other Asian/Pacific 8 0.0%
Arabic 3 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 16,252
Family households: 11,456; 70.5% of households
Married w/ children: 8,923
Single-mother households: 1,029
Veterans: 2,479; 7.6% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

68.8% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 13,629 32.7%
Catholic 12,297 29.5%
Mainline Protestant 1,506 3.6%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 740 1.8%
Black Protestant 482 1.2%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 84.0%
With a disability: 15.2%
Bachelor's or higher: 23.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 235th 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: Gainesville

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 17; 52.27 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 15

NHTSA FARS 2023