Jury Pool Profile

Gray County, Texas

Republican +77 (2024)

Population: 21,131
Median household income: $56,082
Unemployment: 4.0%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 16,471 77.9%
Black or African American alone 976 4.6%
Asian alone 233 1.1%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 263 1.2%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 36 0.2%
Some other race alone 1,786 8.5%
Two or more races 1,366 6.5%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6,499 30.8%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 36.8

Under 18 5,313 25.1%
18–24 1,889 8.9%
25–44 5,519 26.1%
45–64 4,947 23.4%
65 and over 3,463 16.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.0%; -0.23 pp vs. state
County GDP: $1.4B; 0.05% of state
Avg. annual pay: $60,146
Establishments: 552

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Manufacturing 1,490 19.8%
Trade, transportation & utilities 1,404 18.6%
Education & health services 1,317 17.5%
Natural resources & mining 746 9.9%
Leisure & hospitality 692 9.2%
Public administration 527 7.0%
Professional & business services 435 5.8%
Construction 275 3.7%
Financial activities 200 2.7%
Other services 165 2.2%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 73.5%
Median gross rent: $898
Owner-occupied: 5,824
Renter-occupied: 2,102

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 7,580 votes cast

Republican 6,691 88.3%
Democratic 845 11.1%
Other / third-party 44 0.6%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

79.3% speak only English at home

Spanish 3,954 19.9%
Korean 66 0.3%
Arabic 30 0.2%
German 25 0.1%
Vietnamese 12 0.1%
Other Indo-European 11 0.1%
Tagalog 3 0.0%
Other 3 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 7,926
Family households: 5,426; 68.5% of households
Married w/ children: 4,137
Single-mother households: 680
Veterans: 1,226; 7.8% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

83.5% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 12,835 60.5%
Catholic 3,161 14.9%
Mainline Protestant 1,022 4.8%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 624 2.9%
Black Protestant 76 0.4%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 81.8%
With a disability: 12.3%
Bachelor's or higher: 15.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 31st 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: Canadian, Lipscomb, Miami, Pampa, Wheeler

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 3; 18.97 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 3

NHTSA FARS 2023