Ellis County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 112,230 52.7%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 60,062 28.2%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 30,773 14.4%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 1,760 0.8%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 6,874 3.2%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 211 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 207 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 1,043 0.5%

• Under 18 56,170 26.4%
• 18–24 18,972 8.9%
• 25–44 57,879 27.2%
• 45–64 52,351 24.6%
• 65 and over 27,788 13.0%

Median household income

$99,726

90% interval $95,939–$103,513

+$20,003 vs TX · 13th of 254

Below poverty line

7.5%

90% interval 5.9%–9.1%

−5.9 pp vs TX · 247th of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.0%

−0.27 pp vs. state

County GDP

$10.8B

0.39% of state

Avg. annual pay

$59,284

Establishments

4,038

• Trade, transportation & utilities 15,060 23.3%
• Education & health services 14,119 21.8%
• Manufacturing 10,243 15.8%
• Leisure & hospitality 7,608 11.8%
• Construction 5,696 8.8%
• Professional & business services 5,253 8.1%
• Public administration 1,916 3.0%
• Financial activities 1,814 2.8%
• Other services 1,634 2.5%
• Information 521 0.8%
• Natural resources & mining 328 0.5%
• Unclassified 103 0.2%

The sectors listed cover 99.4% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

75.8%

+13.2 pp vs TX · 115th of 254

Median gross rent

$1,594

+$191 vs TX · 11th of 254

Owner-occupied

54,389

Renter-occupied

17,370

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 61% 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 (Information, $108,122/yr) pays 4.8× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $22,704/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 16 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

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

• Spanish 37,079 18.6%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 350 0.2%
• German or other West Germanic 240 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 235 0.1%
• Tagalog 205 0.1%
• Chinese 167 0.1%
• Arabic 146 0.1%
• Vietnamese 122 0.1%
• Korean 15 0.0%

Households

71,759

Family households

56,320

78.5% of households

Married couples w/ children

18,997

33.7% of families

Single-mother families

4,636

8.2% of families

Veterans

10,529

6.7% of civilians 18+

• 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%

Health insured

85.0%

±1.1 pp

Uninsured

15.0%

±1.1 pp

165th of 254

With a disability

11.7%

±0.7 pp

215th of 254

Bachelor's or higher

30.1%

±1.4 pp

−3.7 pp vs TX · 38th of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

16.1%

90% interval 14.9%–17.3% · Census SAHIE

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

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

Traffic fatalities

41

26.12 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

40