Jury Pool Profile

Guadalupe County, Texas

Republican +30 (2024)

Population: 178,368
Median household income: $93,776
Unemployment: 3.8%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 108,064 60.6%
Black or African American alone 14,206 8.0%
Asian alone 3,081 1.7%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 696 0.4%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 107 0.1%
Some other race alone 13,396 7.5%
Two or more races 38,818 21.8%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 68,626 38.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 37.5

Under 18 43,392 24.3%
18–24 15,294 8.6%
25–44 49,310 27.6%
45–64 44,430 24.9%
65 and over 25,942 14.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.8%; -0.39 pp vs. state
County GDP: $14.5B; 0.53% of state
Avg. annual pay: $59,236
Establishments: 2,729

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Trade, transportation & utilities 11,765 24.2%
Manufacturing 9,672 19.9%
Education & health services 8,799 18.1%
Leisure & hospitality 5,185 10.7%
Construction 3,892 8.0%
Professional & business services 3,712 7.6%
Public administration 1,729 3.6%
Financial activities 1,360 2.8%
Other services 1,314 2.7%
Natural resources & mining 756 1.6%
Information 80 0.2%
Unclassified 29 0.1%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 78.5%
Median gross rent: $1,439
Owner-occupied: 49,402
Renter-occupied: 13,551

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 85,097 votes cast

Republican 54,691 64.3%
Democratic 29,573 34.8%
Other / third-party 833 1.0%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

78.4% speak only English at home

Spanish 32,131 19.1%
German 1,101 0.7%
Vietnamese 659 0.4%
Other Indo-European 479 0.3%
Other Asian/Pacific 464 0.3%
Tagalog 452 0.3%
Other 292 0.2%
Slavic languages 273 0.2%
Korean 229 0.1%
Chinese 143 0.1%
French (incl. Cajun) 103 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 62,953
Family households: 47,313; 75.2% of households
Married w/ children: 35,866
Single-mother households: 4,540
Veterans: 18,507; 13.9% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

34.1% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 27,959 16.2%
Catholic 17,732 10.3%
Mainline Protestant 5,668 3.3%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 4,131 2.4%
Black Protestant 3,460 2.0%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 89.1%
With a disability: 13.8%
Bachelor's or higher: 30.9%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 25th 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: Columbus, Gonzales, Hallettsville, Seguin

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 21; 15.56 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 17

NHTSA FARS 2023