Jury Pool Profile
Frio County, Texas
- County seat
- Pearsall
- Judicial district
- 81st District Court
- Population (July 2025 estimate)
- 18,823
- Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 18,582.
At a glance
Frio County is an 18,823-person venue. The county population is 33% White and 5% Black (Census race-alone categories). 78% identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race. Those figures overlap rather than adding up; counted separately, non-Hispanic White residents are 14.6%, which is the basis the chart below uses. Median household income is $51,825, $27,898 below the TX state median of $79,723; 11.9% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 45.8% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, most commonly Spanish. The largest published sector is Natural resources & mining, at 20.7% of covered employment, average pay $92,653/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 5.62%, above the 4.32% state average. The county has not voted for the same party across the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles . See Section 3 for cycle-by-cycle breakdowns. At least 12% of residents here live in group quarters rather than households, barracks, dormitories, correctional facilities or nursing homes; the ACS survey and the 2020 census disagree on how many, and this is the lower of the two, so the figures above describe a population substantially larger than the one a summons reaches.
- Population
- 18,582
- Median household income
- $66,010
- Unemployment
- 5.6%
Who sits on a jury?
<50% in any single race-alone group. White here: 33%; Black: 5%.
Frio County has a population of 18,582, with a median age of 32.3. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 33.0%; Black residents 5.1%. Independently, 77.8% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.
The median household earns $51,825; 11.9% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 27.0% live below the federal poverty line.
Economic context
Counting the cells BLS withholds (private jobs estimated from Census County Business Patterns, government jobs from the statewide mix), the two largest sectors are within 20% of each other: Education & health services about 1,470, Natural resources & mining about 1,320. Oil and gas (private NAICS 211, 213111, 213112) is about 17.1% of all jobs, at or above the 5% bar.
Natural resources & mining is the largest published sector at 20.7% of covered employment, followed by Education & health services at 19.5%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 5.62%, above the Texas state average.
Political composition
Different parties won across the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles.
Frio County was carried by the Republican candidate with 62.0% of the vote in 2024; the Republican candidate with 53.5% of the vote in 2020; the Democratic candidate with 52.2% of the vote in 2016.
Languages, households, faith & health
Family households are 70% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 45.8% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).
45.8% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, Vietnamese, Arabic. Veterans account for 4.1% of the adult civilian population (573 individuals).