Jury Pool Profile
Garza County, Texas
- County seat
- Post
- Judicial district
- 106th District Court
- Population (July 2025 estimate)
- 4,510
- Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 5,118.
At a glance
Garza County is a 4,510-person venue. The county population is 49% White and 10% Black (Census race-alone categories). 49% identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race. Those figures overlap rather than adding up; counted separately, non-Hispanic White residents are 37.0%, which is the basis the chart below uses. Median household income is $57,106, $22,617 below the TX state median of $79,723; 10.2% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 34.9% 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 20.1% of covered employment, average pay $69,105/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 4.99%, above the 4.32% state average. The county carried the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking 83% to 86% of the vote across the three. At least 26% 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
- 5,118
- Median household income
- $46,314
- Unemployment
- 5.0%
Who sits on a jury?
<50% in any single race-alone group. White here: 49%; Black: 10%.
Garza County has a population of 5,118, with a median age of 35.4. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 48.7%; Black residents 10.1%. Independently, 49.5% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.
The median household earns $57,106; 10.2% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 17.2% 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: Natural resources & mining about 270, Education & health services about 270. Oil and gas (private NAICS 211, 213111, 213112) is about 16.3% of all jobs, at or above the 5% bar.
Natural resources & mining is the largest published sector at 20.1% of covered employment, followed by Trade, transportation & utilities at 19.5%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 4.99%, above the Texas state average.
Political composition
Republican candidate carried this county in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (avg winning share: 85%). 'Strongly' threshold: ≥60% avg.
Garza County was carried by the Republican candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 85.9% in 2024, 85.5% in 2020, 82.9% in 2016.
Languages, households, faith & health
Family households are 71% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 34.9% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).
34.9% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, Arabic. Veterans account for 6.9% of the adult civilian population (298 individuals).