Hamilton County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 6,854 81.5%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,196 14.2%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 165 2.0%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 3 0.0%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 163 1.9%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 15 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 2 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 8 0.1%

• Under 18 1,889 22.5%
• 18–24 618 7.4%
• 25–44 1,799 21.4%
• 45–64 2,005 23.9%
• 65 and over 2,095 24.9%

Median household income

$71,790

90% interval $65,431–$78,149

−$7,933 vs TX · 78th of 254

Below poverty line

13.7%

90% interval 10.4%–17.0%

+0.3 pp vs TX · 155th of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.5%

+0.2 pp vs. state

County GDP

$385.9M

0.01% of state

Avg. annual pay

$49,007

Establishments

277

• Education & health services 916 32.4%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 593 21.0%
• Leisure & hospitality 310 11.0%
• Natural resources & mining 274 9.7%
• Manufacturing 214 7.6%
• Construction 132 4.7%
• Public administration 91 3.2%
• Professional & business services 77 2.7%
• Financial activities 66 2.3%

The sectors listed cover 94.5% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

78.7%

+16.1 pp vs TX · 67th of 254

Median gross rent

$885

−$518 vs TX · 160th of 254

Owner-occupied

2,455

Renter-occupied

665

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 64% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Construction, $67,570/yr) pays 3.3× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $20,238/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 10 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Republican 3,809 85.3%
• Democratic 625 14.0%
• Other / third-party 30 0.7%

• Spanish 708 8.8%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 65 0.8%
• German or other West Germanic 54 0.7%

Households

3,120

Family households

1,895

60.7% of households

Married couples w/ children

524

27.7% of families

Single-mother families

100

5.3% of families

Veterans

588

9% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 3,044 37.0%
• Mainline Protestant 645 7.8%
• Catholic 309 3.8%

Health insured

86.5%

±2.9 pp

Uninsured

13.5%

±2.9 pp

199th of 254

With a disability

20.8%

±2.9 pp

42nd of 254

Bachelor's or higher

26.8%

±4.3 pp

−7.0 pp vs TX · 58th of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

23.3%

90% interval 21.2%–25.4% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

220th 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

Comanche, Hamilton, Meridian

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

3

46.03 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

3