Jury Pool Profile

Harris County, Texas

Democratic +6 (2024)

Population: 4,758,579
Median household income: $73,104
Unemployment: 4.5%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 1,910,341 40.1%
Black or African American alone 909,089 19.1%
Asian alone 343,379 7.2%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 40,420 0.8%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 3,898 0.1%
Some other race alone 621,788 13.1%
Two or more races 929,664 19.5%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2,065,668 43.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 34.4

Under 18 1,243,425 26.1%
18–24 441,296 9.3%
25–44 1,426,739 30.0%
45–64 1,103,656 23.2%
65 and over 543,463 11.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.5%; +0.31 pp vs. state
County GDP: $592.8B; 21.4% of state
Avg. annual pay: $88,554
Establishments: 124,542

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 533,885 21.8%
Trade, transportation & utilities 515,741 21.1%
Professional & business services 438,256 17.9%
Leisure & hospitality 255,804 10.5%
Manufacturing 177,472 7.3%
Construction 171,391 7.0%
Financial activities 128,995 5.3%
Other services 74,754 3.1%
Natural resources & mining 64,891 2.7%
Public administration 53,930 2.2%
Information 22,580 0.9%
Unclassified 1,650 0.1%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 54.8%
Median gross rent: $1,349
Owner-occupied: 946,389
Renter-occupied: 781,714

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 1,556,310 votes cast

Democratic 808,771 52.0%
Republican 722,695 46.4%
Other / third-party 24,844 1.6%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

55.3% speak only English at home

Spanish 1,552,844 35.1%
Other Indo-European 92,378 2.1%
Vietnamese 91,149 2.1%
Chinese 47,690 1.1%
Other 44,702 1.0%
Other Asian/Pacific 36,009 0.8%
Arabic 28,779 0.6%
French (incl. Cajun) 26,979 0.6%
Tagalog 19,865 0.4%
Slavic languages 15,604 0.4%
German 11,588 0.3%
Korean 9,832 0.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 1,728,103
Family households: 1,151,535; 66.6% of households
Married w/ children: 781,406
Single-mother households: 142,657
Veterans: 152,830; 4.4% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

58.7% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 1,212,923 25.6%
Catholic 918,386 19.4%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 268,001 5.7%
Mainline Protestant 227,015 4.8%
Black Protestant 132,612 2.8%
Orthodox 19,034 0.4%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 78.8%
With a disability: 10.5%
Bachelor's or higher: 33.7%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 11th District Court
Judges: 60 (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: Houston

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 537; 15.28 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 505

NHTSA FARS 2023