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Guadalupe County, Texas

Republican +29.5 (2024)
County seat
Seguin
Judicial district
25th District Court
Population (July 2025 estimate)
201,111
Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 183,642.

At a glance

Guadalupe County is a 201,111-person venue. The county population is 55% White and 8% Black (Census race-alone categories). 39% identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race. Those figures overlap rather than adding up; counted separately, non-Hispanic White residents are 47.0%, which is the basis the chart below uses. Median household income is $90,997, $11,274 above the TX state median of $79,723; 31.4% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 22.0% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, most commonly Spanish and German or other West Germanic. The largest employment sector is Trade, transportation & utilities, at 24.6% of covered employment, average pay $53,737/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 4.05%, below the 4.32% state average. The county carried the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking 61% to 64% of the vote across the three.

Population
183,642
Median household income
$92,375
Unemployment
4.0%

Who sits on a jury?

Racially mixed

50–70% White and ≥15% Black. This county: 55% / 8%.

Guadalupe County has a population of 183,642, with a median age of 37.6. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 55.1%; Black residents 7.9%. Independently, 39.0% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The median household earns $90,997; 31.4% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 7.9% live below the federal poverty line.

Race & ethnicity
  • White (non-Hispanic) 86,315 47.0%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 71,699 39.0%
  • Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 13,100 7.1%
  • Asian (non-Hispanic) 2,712 1.5%
  • Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 8,131 4.4%
  • American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 146 0.1%
  • Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 48 0.0%
  • Some other race (non-Hispanic) 1,491 0.8%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Age distribution

Median age 37.6

  • Under 18 44,233 24.1%
  • 18–24 15,564 8.5%
  • 25–44 50,977 27.8%
  • 45–64 45,664 24.9%
  • 65 and over 27,204 14.8%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Income & poverty
Median household income
$90,997
90% interval $87,784–$94,210
+$11,274 vs TX · 24th of 254
Below poverty line
7.9%
90% interval 6.3%–9.5%
−5.5 pp vs TX · 244th of 254

U.S. Census SAIPE 2024

Economic context

Trade & transportation anchored

Largest sector in BLS QCEW, even counting every withheld job toward the other sectors: Trade, transportation & utilities, about 25% of covered jobs.

Trade, transportation & utilities is the largest employment sector at 24.6% of covered employment, followed by Manufacturing at 19.3%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 4.05%, below the Texas state average.

Local economy
Unemployment (12-mo)
4.0%
−0.27 pp vs. state
County GDP
$14.5B
0.53% of state
Avg. annual pay
$61,162
Establishments
2,789

U.S. BLS 2026M07 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2025

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

  • Trade, transportation & utilities 12,257 24.6%
  • Manufacturing 9,585 19.3%
  • Education & health services 8,966 18.0%
  • Leisure & hospitality 5,347 10.7%
  • Construction 4,263 8.6%
  • Professional & business services 3,667 7.4%
  • Public administration 1,686 3.4%
  • Financial activities 1,407 2.8%
  • Other services 1,359 2.7%
  • Natural resources & mining 778 1.6%
  • Information 82 0.2%
  • Unclassified 49 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 99.3% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

BLS QCEW 2025

Housing
Home ownership
77.8%
+15.2 pp vs TX · 80th of 254
Median gross rent
$1,517
+$114 vs TX · 16th of 254
Owner-occupied
50,915
Renter-occupied
14,509

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Local economy in 3 reads
  • Moderately concentrated

    Top three sectors employ 62% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

  • Wide wage spread

    Highest-paid sector (Natural resources & mining, $103,884/yr) pays 4.1× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $25,079/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

  • Mixed business scale

    Average establishment employs 18 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

BLS QCEW 2025

Political composition

Consistently strongly Republican

Republican candidate carried this county in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (avg winning share: 63%). 'Strongly' threshold: ≥60% avg.

Guadalupe County was carried by the Republican candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 64.3% in 2024, 61.3% in 2020, 63.8% in 2016.

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 85,097 votes cast

  • Republican
  • Democratic
Presidential vote share by year
YearRepublicanDemocratic
201663.8%32.0%
202061.3%37.1%
202464.3%34.8%
  • Republican 54,691 64.3%
  • Democratic 29,573 34.8%
  • Other / third-party 833 1.0%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Family-dominant, linguistically diverse

Family households are 73% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 22.0% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).

22.0% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, German or other West Germanic, Vietnamese. Veterans account for 13.9% of the adult civilian population (19,188 individuals).

Languages spoken at home

78.0% speak only English at home

  • Spanish 33,110 19.1%
  • German or other West Germanic 1,296 0.7%
  • Vietnamese 612 0.4%
  • Tagalog 460 0.3%
  • Chinese 328 0.2%
  • Korean 208 0.1%
  • Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 150 0.1%
  • French, Haitian, or Cajun 59 0.0%
  • Arabic 33 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Household composition
Households
65,424
Family households
48,029
73.4% of households
Married couples w/ children
15,597
32.5% of families
Single-mother families
4,737
9.9% of families
Veterans
19,188
13.9% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2024

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
89.0%
±0.7 pp
Uninsured
11.0%
±0.7 pp
233rd of 254
With a disability
13.8%
±0.7 pp
180th of 254
Bachelor's or higher
31.4%
±1.4 pp
−2.4 pp vs TX · 33rd of 254
Uninsured, under 65 (2024)
14.6%
90% interval 13.4%–15.8% · Census SAHIE

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

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Court infrastructure

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

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Court reference
Traffic safety context

Guadalupe totals, 2024 — the per-100k rate is based on 18 recorded deaths, too few to be statistically reliable

Traffic fatalities
18
12.91 per 100k adults (18+)
Fatal crashes
18

NHTSA FARS 2024

About this profile

This profile aggregates publicly available U.S. government statistics for Guadalupe County, Texas to give trial attorneys venue context for jury selection. It describes the general population of the county, not the qualified jury wheel, and is not legal advice or a substitute for the court's juror records.

Sources as of: U.S. Census ACS 2024 · U.S. BLS 2026M07 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2025 · Election results 2024 · NHTSA FARS 2024 · US Religion Census 2020.

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