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Jury Pool Profile

Duval County, Texas

Republican +9.8 (2024)
County seat
San Diego
Judicial district
229th District Court
Population (July 2025 estimate)
9,402
Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 9,742.

At a glance

Duval County is a 9,402-person venue. The county population is 55% White (Census race-alone categories). 82% identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race. Those figures overlap rather than adding up; counted separately, non-Hispanic White residents are 15.6%, which is the basis the chart below uses. Median household income is $45,438, $34,285 below the TX state median of $79,723; 6.8% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 51.1% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, most commonly Spanish. The largest employment sector is Education & health services, at 48.5% of covered employment, average pay $27,021/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 4.87%, above the 4.32% state average. The county has not voted for the same party across the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles . See Section 3 for cycle-by-cycle breakdowns.

Population
9,742
Median household income
$49,038
Unemployment
4.9%

Who sits on a jury?

Racially mixed

50–70% White and ≥15% Black. This county: 55% / 1%.

Duval County has a population of 9,742, with a median age of 33.6. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 55.4%; Black residents 0.7%. Independently, 81.6% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The median household earns $45,438; 6.8% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 24.8% live below the federal poverty line.

Race & ethnicity
  • White (non-Hispanic) 1,524 15.6%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 7,950 81.6%
  • Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 69 0.7%
  • Asian (non-Hispanic) 117 1.2%
  • Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 82 0.8%
  • American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
  • Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
  • Some other race (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Age distribution

Median age 33.6

  • Under 18 2,454 25.2%
  • 18–24 771 7.9%
  • 25–44 2,844 29.2%
  • 45–64 2,017 20.7%
  • 65 and over 1,656 17.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Income & poverty
Median household income
$45,438
90% interval $40,077–$50,799
−$34,285 vs TX · 250th of 254
Below poverty line
24.8%
90% interval 18.6%–31.0%
+11.4 pp vs TX · 9th of 254

U.S. Census SAIPE 2024

Economic context

Healthcare & education anchored, energy presence

Largest sector in BLS QCEW, even counting every withheld job toward the other sectors: Education & health services, about 49% of covered jobs. Oil and gas (private NAICS 211, 213111, 213112) is about 10.6% of all jobs, at or above the 5% bar.

Education & health services is the largest employment sector at 48.5% of covered employment, followed by Natural resources & mining at 13.7%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 4.87%, above the Texas state average.

Local economy
Unemployment (12-mo)
4.9%
+0.55 pp vs. state
County GDP
$346.6M
0.01% of state
Avg. annual pay
$42,208
Establishments
194

U.S. BLS 2026M07 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2025

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

  • Education & health services 1,798 48.5%
  • Natural resources & mining 506 13.7%
  • Trade, transportation & utilities 325 8.8%
  • Public administration 204 5.5%
  • Professional & business services 179 4.8%
  • Leisure & hospitality 140 3.8%
  • Financial activities 91 2.5%

The sectors listed cover 87.5% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

BLS QCEW 2025

Housing
Home ownership
70.4%
+7.8 pp vs TX · 175th of 254
Median gross rent
$741
−$662 vs TX · 214th of 254
Owner-occupied
2,149
Renter-occupied
904

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Local economy in 3 reads
  • Concentrated

    Top three sectors employ 71% of the county workforce. Most panelists likely share employer relationships within these sectors, surface those connections early in voir dire before any institutional-defendant or sector-specific framing.

  • Moderate wage spread

    Highest-paid sector (Trade, transportation & utilities, $72,266/yr) pays 3.9× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $18,399/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

  • Institutional employer scale

    Average establishment employs 19 workers, typical of an institutional-employer economy where large hospitals, plants, schools, and government agencies dominate. Expect many panelists to share an employer rather than work for themselves.

BLS QCEW 2025

Political composition

Politically split

Different parties won across the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles.

Duval County was carried by the Republican candidate with 54.7% of the vote in 2024; the Democratic candidate with 51.0% of the vote in 2020; the Democratic candidate with 66.9% of the vote in 2016.

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 4,461 votes cast

  • Republican
  • Democratic
Presidential vote share by year
YearRepublicanDemocratic
201631.6%66.9%
202048.3%51.0%
202454.7%44.9%
  • Republican 2,439 54.7%
  • Democratic 2,003 44.9%
  • Other / third-party 19 0.4%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Family-majority, linguistically diverse

Family households are 61% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 51.1% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).

51.1% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, Vietnamese, German or other West Germanic. Veterans account for 5.1% of the adult civilian population (375 individuals).

Languages spoken at home

48.9% speak only English at home

  • Spanish 4,472 49.0%
  • Vietnamese 111 1.2%
  • German or other West Germanic 70 0.8%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Household composition
Households
3,053
Family households
1,864
61.1% of households
Married couples w/ children
287
15.4% of families
Single-mother families
394
21.1% of families
Veterans
375
5.1% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Religious composition

85.9% overall adherence rate

  • Catholic 5,987 60.9%
  • Evangelical Protestant 2,388 24.3%
  • Mainline Protestant 66 0.7%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education
Health insured
77.8%
±5.8 pp
Uninsured
22.2%
±5.8 pp
33rd of 254
With a disability
22.2%
±4.4 pp
33rd of 254
Bachelor's or higher
6.8%
±3 pp
−27.0 pp vs TX · 252nd of 254
Uninsured, under 65 (2024)
17.3%
90% interval 15.5%–19.1% · Census SAHIE

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

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Court infrastructure

Court infrastructure
Trial court
229th 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
Hebbronville, Rio Grande City, San Diego

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Court reference
Traffic safety context

Duval totals, 2024 — the per-100k rate is based on 1 recorded death, too few to be statistically reliable

Traffic fatalities
1
13.72 per 100k adults (18+)
Fatal crashes
1

NHTSA FARS 2024

About this profile

This profile aggregates publicly available U.S. government statistics for Duval County, Texas to give trial attorneys venue context for jury selection. It describes the general population of the county, not the qualified jury wheel, and is not legal advice or a substitute for the court's juror records.

Sources as of: U.S. Census ACS 2024 · U.S. BLS 2026M07 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2025 · Election results 2024 · NHTSA FARS 2024 · US Religion Census 2020.

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