Jury Pool Profile

Ellis County, Texas

Republican +31 (2024)

Population: 203,927
Median household income: $95,898
Unemployment: 3.9%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 131,379 64.4%
Black or African American alone 27,009 13.2%
Asian alone 1,583 0.8%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 1,395 0.7%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 309 0.2%
Some other race alone 15,289 7.5%
Two or more races 26,963 13.2%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 56,354 27.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 36.3

Under 18 53,955 26.5%
18–24 18,076 8.9%
25–44 54,750 26.8%
45–64 50,749 24.9%
65 and over 26,397 12.9%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.9%; -0.36 pp vs. state
County GDP: $10.8B; 0.39% of state
Avg. annual pay: $57,911
Establishments: 3,919

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Trade, transportation & utilities 14,405 23.0%
Education & health services 13,378 21.3%
Manufacturing 10,327 16.5%
Leisure & hospitality 7,288 11.6%
Construction 5,387 8.6%
Professional & business services 4,807 7.7%
Public administration 2,007 3.2%
Financial activities 1,744 2.8%
Other services 1,608 2.6%
Information 1,145 1.8%
Natural resources & mining 303 0.5%
Unclassified 86 0.1%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 76.3%
Median gross rent: $1,449
Owner-occupied: 52,500
Renter-occupied: 16,352

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 99,485 votes cast

Republican 64,763 65.1%
Democratic 33,850 34.0%
Other / third-party 872 0.9%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

81.0% speak only English at home

Spanish 33,379 17.5%
Other Indo-European 678 0.4%
Other 628 0.3%
French (incl. Cajun) 314 0.2%
Other Asian/Pacific 306 0.2%
Arabic 240 0.1%
Slavic languages 237 0.1%
German 218 0.1%
Tagalog 163 0.1%
Chinese 56 0.0%
Vietnamese 42 0.0%
Korean 9 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 68,852
Family households: 54,295; 78.9% of households
Married w/ children: 41,243
Single-mother households: 5,010
Veterans: 10,849; 7.2% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

50.7% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 66,918 34.8%
Catholic 15,145 7.9%
Mainline Protestant 6,643 3.5%
Black Protestant 6,204 3.2%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,634 1.4%
Orthodox 45 0.0%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 84.4%
With a disability: 12.0%
Bachelor's or higher: 28.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 40th 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: Waxahachie

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 37; 24.67 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 31

NHTSA FARS 2023