Freestone County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 12,677 63.2%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3,455 17.2%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 2,908 14.5%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 29 0.1%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 948 4.7%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 32 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%

• Under 18 4,531 22.6%
• 18–24 1,307 6.5%
• 25–44 5,228 26.1%
• 45–64 4,946 24.7%
• 65 and over 4,037 20.1%

Median household income

$69,048

90% interval $63,707–$74,389

−$10,675 vs TX · 94th of 254

Below poverty line

12.7%

90% interval 9.4%–16.0%

−0.7 pp vs TX · 176th of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.9%

+0.62 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.3B

0.05% of state

Avg. annual pay

$56,825

Establishments

403

• Education & health services 1,290 25.5%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 999 19.7%
• Leisure & hospitality 639 12.6%
• Natural resources & mining 615 12.1%
• Manufacturing 283 5.6%
• Public administration 209 4.1%
• Construction 184 3.6%
• Professional & business services 172 3.4%
• Other services 171 3.4%
• Financial activities 104 2.1%
• Information 59 1.2%
• Unclassified 11 0.2%

The sectors listed cover 93.6% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

75.4%

+12.8 pp vs TX · 116th of 254

Median gross rent

$853

−$550 vs TX · 173rd of 254

Owner-occupied

5,348

Renter-occupied

1,742

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 58% 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, $96,904/yr) pays 4.8× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $20,043/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 13 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 7,500 82.9%
• Democratic 1,499 16.6%
• Other / third-party 46 0.5%

• Spanish 2,167 11.4%
• Tagalog 40 0.2%
• Arabic 31 0.2%
• Vietnamese 17 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 2 0.0%

Households

7,090

Family households

4,966

70.0% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,551

31.2% of families

Single-mother families

593

11.9% of families

Veterans

1,164

7.5% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 7,309 37.6%
• Mainline Protestant 1,601 8.2%
• Black Protestant 1,222 6.3%
• Catholic 450 2.3%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 131 0.7%

Health insured

87.4%

±2.3 pp

Uninsured

12.6%

±2.3 pp

218th of 254

With a disability

18.8%

±2.3 pp

66th of 254

Bachelor's or higher

16.5%

±2 pp

−17.3 pp vs TX · 184th of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

20.3%

90% interval 18.5%–22.1% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

77th 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

Fairfield, Groesbeck

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

9

58 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

9