Jury Pool Profile

Dallas County, Texas

Democratic +22 (2024)

Population: 2,603,816
Median household income: $74,149
Unemployment: 4.1%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 1,062,078 40.8%
Black or African American alone 586,837 22.5%
Asian alone 178,176 6.8%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 18,019 0.7%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 1,469 0.1%
Some other race alone 307,957 11.8%
Two or more races 449,280 17.3%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,061,995 40.8%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 34

Under 18 661,827 25.4%
18–24 248,650 9.5%
25–44 788,056 30.3%
45–64 606,291 23.3%
65 and over 298,992 11.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.1%; -0.14 pp vs. state
County GDP: $389.4B; 14.06% of state
Avg. annual pay: $89,284
Establishments: 84,182

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Professional & business services 397,489 21.8%
Trade, transportation & utilities 394,378 21.6%
Education & health services 331,262 18.1%
Leisure & hospitality 170,473 9.3%
Financial activities 164,266 9.0%
Manufacturing 126,149 6.9%
Construction 103,617 5.7%
Other services 46,368 2.5%
Information 44,083 2.4%
Public administration 35,875 2.0%
Natural resources & mining 7,021 0.4%
Unclassified 1,082 0.1%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 50.8%
Median gross rent: $1,469
Owner-occupied: 493,453
Renter-occupied: 478,237

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 848,948 votes cast

Democratic 511,118 60.2%
Republican 322,569 38.0%
Other / third-party 15,261 1.8%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

57.3% speak only English at home

Spanish 817,931 33.7%
Other Indo-European 51,783 2.1%
Other Asian/Pacific 40,353 1.7%
Other 38,248 1.6%
Vietnamese 29,059 1.2%
Chinese 13,361 0.6%
French (incl. Cajun) 10,446 0.4%
Arabic 9,535 0.4%
Tagalog 8,791 0.4%
Korean 6,288 0.3%
Slavic languages 5,129 0.2%
German 3,627 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 971,690
Family households: 609,578; 62.7% of households
Married w/ children: 412,496
Single-mother households: 75,176
Veterans: 83,243; 4.3% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

59.0% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 573,341 21.9%
Catholic 431,645 16.5%
Mainline Protestant 214,466 8.2%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 152,977 5.9%
Black Protestant 152,732 5.8%
Orthodox 16,119 0.6%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 78.4%
With a disability: 10.6%
Bachelor's or higher: 34.8%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 14th District Court
Judges: 45 (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: Dallas

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 336; 17.3 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 316

NHTSA FARS 2023