Franklin County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 8,184 77.0%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,567 14.7%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 572 5.4%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 33 0.3%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 258 2.4%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 18 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%

• Under 18 2,374 22.3%
• 18–24 799 7.5%
• 25–44 2,383 22.4%
• 45–64 2,701 25.4%
• 65 and over 2,375 22.3%

Median household income

$67,120

90% interval $60,317–$73,923

−$12,603 vs TX · 112th of 254

Below poverty line

13.4%

90% interval 10.1%–16.7%

+0.0 pp vs TX · 166th of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.8%

−0.57 pp vs. state

County GDP

$657.9M

0.02% of state

Avg. annual pay

$49,985

Establishments

528

• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,161 31.4%
• Education & health services 902 24.4%
• Leisure & hospitality 366 9.9%
• Professional & business services 238 6.4%
• Construction 165 4.5%
• Other services 137 3.7%
• Public administration 114 3.1%
• Manufacturing 99 2.7%
• Natural resources & mining 87 2.4%

The sectors listed cover 88.5% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

82.0%

+19.4 pp vs TX · 29th of 254

Median gross rent

$936

−$467 vs TX · 134th of 254

Owner-occupied

3,197

Renter-occupied

700

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 66% 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 (Professional & business services, $64,067/yr) pays 3.1× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $20,606/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Small-business scale

  Average establishment employs only 7.0 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

• Republican 4,473 84.2%
• Democratic 813 15.3%
• Other / third-party 24 0.5%

• Spanish 1,077 10.8%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 30 0.3%
• German or other West Germanic 27 0.3%
• Korean 25 0.3%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 5 0.1%

Households

3,897

Family households

2,905

74.5% of households

Married couples w/ children

842

29.0% of families

Single-mother families

127

4.4% of families

Veterans

490

5.9% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 3,229 31.2%
• Catholic 779 7.5%
• Mainline Protestant 510 4.9%
• Black Protestant 296 2.9%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1 0.0%

Health insured

85.0%

±3.1 pp

Uninsured

15.0%

±3.1 pp

166th of 254

With a disability

14.4%

±2.1 pp

162nd of 254

Bachelor's or higher

27.8%

±4.4 pp

−6.0 pp vs TX · 51st of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

18.4%

90% interval 16.6%–20.2% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

8th 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

Cooper, Emory, Mount Vernon, Sulphur Springs

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

1

12.11 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

1