Dawson County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 4,268 35.2%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6,770 55.8%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 788 6.5%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 63 0.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 233 1.9%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 8 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 4 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%

• Under 18 2,945 24.3%
• 18–24 1,371 11.3%
• 25–44 3,489 28.8%
• 45–64 2,642 21.8%
• 65 and over 1,687 13.9%

Median household income

$58,227

90% interval $51,348–$65,106

−$21,496 vs TX · 186th of 254

Below poverty line

20.1%

90% interval 15.1%–25.1%

+6.7 pp vs TX · 35th of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.4%

+0.04 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.5B

0.06% of state

Avg. annual pay

$55,447

Establishments

470

• Education & health services 885 21.5%
• Natural resources & mining 783 19.0%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 772 18.8%
• Leisure & hospitality 461 11.2%
• Public administration 194 4.7%
• Financial activities 168 4.1%
• Professional & business services 143 3.5%
• Construction 125 3.0%
• Manufacturing 86 2.1%
• Other services 67 1.6%
• Unclassified 19 0.5%
• Information 11 0.3%

The sectors listed cover 90.3% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

70.6%

+8.0 pp vs TX · 169th of 254

Median gross rent

$777

−$626 vs TX · 206th of 254

Owner-occupied

2,856

Renter-occupied

1,187

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 59% 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, $91,641/yr) pays 4.7× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $19,557/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 8.8 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

• Republican 2,810 80.0%
• Democratic 667 19.0%
• Other / third-party 34 1.0%

• Spanish 3,402 30.0%
• German or other West Germanic 463 4.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 13 0.1%
• Korean 10 0.1%
• Arabic 2 0.0%

Households

4,043

Family households

2,611

64.6% of households

Married couples w/ children

768

29.4% of families

Single-mother families

351

13.4% of families

Veterans

346

3.8% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 4,764 38.2%
• Catholic 2,714 21.8%
• Mainline Protestant 351 2.8%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 231 1.9%
• Black Protestant 220 1.8%

Health insured

77.5%

±4.5 pp

Uninsured

22.5%

±4.5 pp

29th of 254

With a disability

14.6%

±2.4 pp

158th of 254

Bachelor's or higher

12.7%

±1.9 pp

−21.1 pp vs TX · 226th of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

22.2%

90% interval 20.2%–24.2% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

106th 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

Lamesa, Post, Seminole, Tahoka

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

4

43.53 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

4