Jury Pool Profile

Galveston County, Texas

Republican +27 (2024)

Population: 354,721
Median household income: $85,348
Unemployment: 4.4%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 228,663 64.5%
Black or African American alone 43,820 12.4%
Asian alone 11,842 3.3%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 1,319 0.4%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 111 0.0%
Some other race alone 15,570 4.4%
Two or more races 53,396 15.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 91,727 25.9%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 38.5

Under 18 84,634 23.9%
18–24 29,491 8.3%
25–44 94,174 26.5%
45–64 92,106 26.0%
65 and over 54,316 15.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.4%; +0.16 pp vs. state
County GDP: $26.3B; 0.95% of state
Avg. annual pay: $62,650
Establishments: 6,943

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 37,254 30.4%
Trade, transportation & utilities 22,159 18.1%
Leisure & hospitality 22,086 18.0%
Professional & business services 10,707 8.7%
Construction 7,774 6.3%
Manufacturing 6,054 4.9%
Financial activities 6,043 4.9%
Other services 4,391 3.6%
Public administration 3,398 2.8%
Information 766 0.6%
Natural resources & mining 677 0.6%
Unclassified 125 0.1%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 67.5%
Median gross rent: $1,360
Owner-occupied: 93,591
Renter-occupied: 45,075

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 158,933 votes cast

Republican 100,295 63.1%
Democratic 56,732 35.7%
Other / third-party 1,906 1.2%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

79.4% speak only English at home

Spanish 53,430 16.0%
Other Indo-European 3,465 1.0%
Other Asian/Pacific 2,650 0.8%
Vietnamese 2,275 0.7%
Chinese 1,577 0.5%
Slavic languages 1,271 0.4%
Tagalog 1,000 0.3%
French (incl. Cajun) 694 0.2%
Arabic 692 0.2%
German 661 0.2%
Other 632 0.2%
Korean 343 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 138,666
Family households: 94,398; 68.1% of households
Married w/ children: 71,641
Single-mother households: 8,688
Veterans: 19,656; 7.3% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

44.8% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 60,537 17.3%
Catholic 56,513 16.1%
Mainline Protestant 18,079 5.2%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 12,778 3.6%
Black Protestant 8,840 2.5%
Orthodox 420 0.1%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 86.2%
With a disability: 12.9%
Bachelor's or higher: 34.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 10th District Court
Judges: 4 (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: Galveston

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 39; 14.44 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 35

NHTSA FARS 2023