Jury Pool Profile

Ector County, Texas

Republican +53 (2024)

Population: 163,206
Median household income: $71,031
Unemployment: 3.8%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 87,032 53.3%
Black or African American alone 8,298 5.1%
Asian alone 2,010 1.2%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 1,161 0.7%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 62 0.0%
Some other race alone 31,146 19.1%
Two or more races 33,497 20.5%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 101,602 62.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 31.3

Under 18 49,505 30.3%
18–24 15,632 9.6%
25–44 49,179 30.1%
45–64 32,852 20.1%
65 and over 16,038 9.8%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.8%; -0.47 pp vs. state
County GDP: $16.5B; 0.6% of state
Avg. annual pay: $75,029
Establishments: 4,285

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Trade, transportation & utilities 19,485 24.4%
Education & health services 13,500 16.9%
Natural resources & mining 12,319 15.4%
Leisure & hospitality 9,461 11.9%
Construction 6,880 8.6%
Professional & business services 4,946 6.2%
Manufacturing 4,354 5.5%
Financial activities 3,540 4.4%
Other services 2,962 3.7%
Public administration 1,324 1.7%
Information 384 0.5%
Unclassified 53 0.1%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 64.4%
Median gross rent: $1,284
Owner-occupied: 40,217
Renter-occupied: 22,205

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 42,615 votes cast

Republican 32,429 76.1%
Democratic 9,881 23.2%
Other / third-party 305 0.7%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

53.3% speak only English at home

Spanish 66,661 44.7%
Other 781 0.5%
Other Indo-European 370 0.2%
Vietnamese 366 0.2%
German 354 0.2%
Tagalog 338 0.2%
Other Asian/Pacific 303 0.2%
Arabic 196 0.1%
Chinese 71 0.0%
Slavic languages 66 0.0%
Korean 58 0.0%
French (incl. Cajun) 38 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 62,422
Family households: 41,847; 67.0% of households
Married w/ children: 28,269
Single-mother households: 6,536
Veterans: 5,461; 4.8% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

50.3% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 47,044 28.5%
Catholic 26,988 16.3%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 4,851 2.9%
Mainline Protestant 3,155 1.9%
Black Protestant 970 0.6%
Orthodox 62 0.0%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 78.4%
With a disability: 10.4%
Bachelor's or higher: 16.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 70th District Court
Judges: 3 (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: Odessa

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 47; 41.34 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 39

NHTSA FARS 2023