Jury Pool Profile

Donley County, Texas

Republican +78 (2024)

Population: 3,276
Median household income: $56,648
Unemployment: 4.1%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 2,856 87.2%
Black or African American alone 177 5.4%
Asian alone 82 2.5%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 12 0.4%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
Some other race alone 60 1.8%
Two or more races 89 2.7%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 399 12.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 45.4

Under 18 586 17.9%
18–24 479 14.6%
25–44 563 17.2%
45–64 766 23.4%
65 and over 882 26.9%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.1%; -0.1 pp vs. state
County GDP: $173.2M; 0.01% of state
Avg. annual pay: $39,176
Establishments: 123

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 336 36.5%
Trade, transportation & utilities 133 14.4%
Leisure & hospitality 114 12.4%
Natural resources & mining 78 8.5%
Public administration 65 7.1%
Professional & business services 50 5.4%
Other services 38 4.1%
Construction 26 2.8%
Manufacturing 14 1.5%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 75.4%
Median gross rent: $686
Owner-occupied: 907
Renter-occupied: 296

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 1,712 votes cast

Republican 1,512 88.3%
Democratic 174 10.2%
Other / third-party 26 1.5%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

92.9% speak only English at home

Spanish 133 4.2%
Other Asian/Pacific 38 1.2%
Other Indo-European 29 0.9%
Chinese 24 0.8%
Other 1 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 1,203
Family households: 788; 65.5% of households
Married w/ children: 631
Single-mother households: 49
Veterans: 182; 6.8% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

82.7% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 2,129 65.3%
Mainline Protestant 260 8.0%
Catholic 150 4.6%
Black Protestant 120 3.7%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 34 1.0%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 86.8%
With a disability: 10.7%
Bachelor's or higher: 16.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 100th 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: Childress, Clarendon, Memphis, Panhandle, Wellington

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 3; 111.52 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 2

NHTSA FARS 2023