Jury Pool Profile

Hardin County, Texas

Republican +76 (2024)

Population: 57,126
Median household income: $72,532
Unemployment: 4.5%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 48,845 85.5%
Black or African American alone 3,483 6.1%
Asian alone 277 0.5%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 104 0.2%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 8 0.0%
Some other race alone 818 1.4%
Two or more races 3,591 6.3%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3,723 6.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 39.3

Under 18 14,172 24.8%
18–24 4,271 7.5%
25–44 14,498 25.4%
45–64 14,230 24.9%
65 and over 9,955 17.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.5%; +0.25 pp vs. state
County GDP: $1.9B; 0.07% of state
Avg. annual pay: $52,391
Establishments: 974

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 2,964 24.3%
Trade, transportation & utilities 2,742 22.5%
Leisure & hospitality 1,591 13.0%
Construction 1,495 12.3%
Manufacturing 911 7.5%
Professional & business services 662 5.4%
Public administration 476 3.9%
Other services 458 3.8%
Financial activities 337 2.8%
Natural resources & mining 335 2.7%
Information 106 0.9%
Unclassified 5 0.0%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 82.5%
Median gross rent: $1,011
Owner-occupied: 17,944
Renter-occupied: 3,806

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 28,157 votes cast

Republican 24,691 87.7%
Democratic 3,347 11.9%
Other / third-party 119 0.4%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

95.4% speak only English at home

Spanish 2,029 3.8%
Other Indo-European 212 0.4%
French (incl. Cajun) 80 0.1%
Vietnamese 62 0.1%
Other Asian/Pacific 28 0.1%
Chinese 22 0.0%
Korean 19 0.0%
German 16 0.0%
Tagalog 4 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 21,750
Family households: 16,063; 73.9% of households
Married w/ children: 12,206
Single-mother households: 1,292
Veterans: 3,113; 7.3% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

47.3% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 18,043 32.1%
Catholic 5,076 9.0%
Mainline Protestant 1,843 3.3%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 875 1.6%
Black Protestant 774 1.4%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 84.1%
With a disability: 18.1%
Bachelor's or higher: 20.8%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 88th 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: Kountze

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 14; 32.59 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 14

NHTSA FARS 2023