Hardin County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 47,504 82.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3,936 6.8%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 3,201 5.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 317 0.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 2,571 4.5%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 28 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 2 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 83 0.1%

• Under 18 14,263 24.7%
• 18–24 4,219 7.3%
• 25–44 14,788 25.7%
• 45–64 14,163 24.6%
• 65 and over 10,209 17.7%

Median household income

$81,183

90% interval $73,514–$88,852

+$1,460 vs TX · 44th of 254

Below poverty line

10.8%

90% interval 8.4%–13.2%

−2.6 pp vs TX · 214th of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.6%

+0.28 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.9B

0.07% of state

Avg. annual pay

$54,626

Establishments

965

• Education & health services 2,981 24.4%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 2,663 21.8%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,640 13.4%
• Construction 1,514 12.4%
• Manufacturing 926 7.6%
• Professional & business services 672 5.5%
• Other services 454 3.7%
• Public administration 439 3.6%
• Financial activities 335 2.7%
• Natural resources & mining 307 2.5%
• Information 108 0.9%
• Unclassified 4 0.0%

The sectors listed cover 98.8% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

82.3%

+19.7 pp vs TX · 27th of 254

Median gross rent

$1,049

−$354 vs TX · 80th of 254

Owner-occupied

18,294

Renter-occupied

3,928

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 60% 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 (Construction, $84,180/yr) pays 4.1× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $20,620/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 13 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 24,691 87.7%
• Democratic 3,347 11.9%
• Other / third-party 119 0.4%

• Spanish 1,942 3.6%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 104 0.2%
• Vietnamese 56 0.1%
• Chinese 31 0.1%
• Tagalog 31 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 29 0.1%
• Korean 5 0.0%

Households

22,222

Family households

16,154

72.7% of households

Married couples w/ children

4,828

29.9% of families

Single-mother families

1,346

8.3% of families

Veterans

2,948

6.8% of civilians 18+

• 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%

Health insured

84.1%

±2.2 pp

Uninsured

15.9%

±2.2 pp

144th of 254

With a disability

16.0%

±1.6 pp

120th of 254

Bachelor's or higher

21.0%

±2.1 pp

−12.8 pp vs TX · 119th of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

15.0%

90% interval 13.7%–16.3% · Census SAHIE

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

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

Traffic fatalities

13

29.97 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

11