Goliad County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 4,315 60.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2,308 32.3%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 341 4.8%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 1 0.0%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 145 2.0%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 31 0.4%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%

• Under 18 1,412 19.8%
• 18–24 495 6.9%
• 25–44 1,718 24.1%
• 45–64 1,764 24.7%
• 65 and over 1,752 24.5%

Median household income

$68,784

90% interval $60,502–$77,066

−$10,939 vs TX · 96th of 254

Below poverty line

15.4%

90% interval 12.3%–18.5%

+2.0 pp vs TX · 105th of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.2%

+0.83 pp vs. state

County GDP

$355.3M

0.01% of state

Avg. annual pay

$60,002

Establishments

157

• Trade, transportation & utilities 208 14.9%
• Construction 202 14.5%
• Leisure & hospitality 174 12.5%
• Professional & business services 129 9.3%
• Education & health services 102 7.3%
• Public administration 88 6.3%
• Financial activities 60 4.3%

The sectors listed cover 69.2% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

86.8%

+24.2 pp vs TX · 4th of 254

Median gross rent

$754

−$649 vs TX · 212th of 254

Owner-occupied

2,441

Renter-occupied

370

• Diversified

  Top three sectors employ 42% of the workforce, a relatively diversified local economy. Expect mixed employer backgrounds on the panel rather than concentration in any one institution or industry.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Professional & business services, $123,761/yr) pays 7.0× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $17,665/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Small-business scale

  Average establishment employs only 8.9 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

• Republican 3,178 79.8%
• Democratic 778 19.5%
• Other / third-party 28 0.7%

• Spanish 931 13.7%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 50 0.7%
• Arabic 13 0.2%
• Vietnamese 1 0.0%

Households

2,811

Family households

1,835

65.3% of households

Married couples w/ children

512

27.9% of families

Single-mother families

70

3.8% of families

Veterans

488

8.5% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 1,153 16.4%
• Catholic 1,017 14.5%
• Mainline Protestant 453 6.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 4 0.1%

Health insured

86.6%

±3.4 pp

Uninsured

13.4%

±3.4 pp

202nd of 254

With a disability

16.6%

±3.3 pp

105th of 254

Bachelor's or higher

21.4%

±4.2 pp

−12.4 pp vs TX · 113th of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

17.8%

90% interval 16.0%–19.6% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

24th 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

Cuero, Edna, Goliad, Port Lavaca, Refugio, Victoria

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

1

17.46 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

1