Cottle County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 639 46.7%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 574 42.0%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 32 2.3%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 108 7.9%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 15 1.1%

• Under 18 250 18.3%
• 18–24 197 14.4%
• 25–44 228 16.7%
• 45–64 376 27.5%
• 65 and over 317 23.2%

Median household income

$57,388

90% interval $51,284–$63,492

−$22,335 vs TX · 195th of 254

Below poverty line

19.0%

90% interval 14.2%–23.8%

+5.6 pp vs TX · 47th of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

2.1%

−2.17 pp vs. state

County GDP

$148.3M

0.01% of state

Avg. annual pay

$79,456

Establishments

166

• Education & health services 169 20.8%
• Professional & business services 134 16.5%
• Leisure & hospitality 83 10.2%
• Financial activities 79 9.7%
• Other services 70 8.6%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 68 8.4%
• Natural resources & mining 45 5.5%
• Public administration 7 0.9%

The sectors listed cover 80.8% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

83.2%

+20.6 pp vs TX · 19th of 254

Median gross rent

$264

Owner-occupied

480

Renter-occupied

97

• Diversified

  Top three sectors employ 48% of the workforce, a relatively diversified local economy. Expect mixed employer backgrounds on the panel rather than concentration in any one institution or industry.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Trade, transportation & utilities, $114,525/yr) pays 5.8× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $19,682/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 4.9 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

• Republican 565 86.0%
• Democratic 89 13.5%
• Other / third-party 3 0.5%

• Spanish 278 21.7%
• German or other West Germanic 3 0.2%

Households

577

Family households

388

67.2% of households

Married couples w/ children

49

12.6% of families

Single-mother families

47

12.1% of families

Veterans

25

2.2% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 817 59.2%
• Catholic 196 14.2%
• Mainline Protestant 150 10.9%
• Black Protestant 76 5.5%

Health insured

88.8%

±6.4 pp — too imprecise at this sample size to compare

With a disability

25.2%

±7.2 pp

15th of 254

Bachelor's or higher

21.1%

±6.7 pp

−12.7 pp vs TX · 117th of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

17.2%

90% interval 15.2%–19.2% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

50th 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

Benjamin, Guthrie, Paducah, Seymour

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

1

89.45 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

1