Harrison County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 42,448 60.5%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 10,404 14.8%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 14,250 20.3%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 327 0.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 2,471 3.5%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 91 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 29 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 135 0.2%

• Under 18 16,844 24.0%
• 18–24 7,070 10.1%
• 25–44 17,146 24.4%
• 45–64 16,811 24.0%
• 65 and over 12,284 17.5%

Median household income

$63,802

90% interval $59,336–$68,268

−$15,921 vs TX · 143rd of 254

Below poverty line

14.5%

90% interval 11.7%–17.3%

+1.1 pp vs TX · 136th of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.8%

+0.43 pp vs. state

County GDP

$5.7B

0.2% of state

Avg. annual pay

$66,643

Establishments

1,429

• Manufacturing 5,151 24.5%
• Education & health services 4,391 20.9%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 3,233 15.4%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,773 8.4%
• Construction 1,417 6.7%
• Professional & business services 1,224 5.8%
• Financial activities 1,072 5.1%
• Natural resources & mining 997 4.7%
• Other services 666 3.2%
• Public administration 515 2.4%
• Information 134 0.6%
• Unclassified 32 0.2%

The sectors listed cover 97.9% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

76.9%

+14.3 pp vs TX · 94th of 254

Median gross rent

$974

−$429 vs TX · 116th of 254

Owner-occupied

20,205

Renter-occupied

6,082

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 61% 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, $105,584/yr) pays 5.2× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $20,325/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 15 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 22,658 75.0%
• Democratic 7,369 24.4%
• Other / third-party 199 0.7%

• Spanish 6,616 10.0%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 116 0.2%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 73 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 63 0.1%
• Chinese 28 0.0%
• Vietnamese 24 0.0%
• Korean 23 0.0%
• Arabic 13 0.0%

Households

26,287

Family households

18,555

70.6% of households

Married couples w/ children

4,925

26.5% of families

Single-mother families

1,898

10.2% of families

Veterans

3,776

7.1% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 22,845 33.2%
• Black Protestant 3,018 4.4%
• Catholic 2,692 3.9%
• Mainline Protestant 2,459 3.6%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,109 1.6%

Health insured

85.9%

±1.8 pp

Uninsured

14.1%

±1.8 pp

186th of 254

With a disability

16.8%

±1.6 pp

100th of 254

Bachelor's or higher

22.7%

±1.8 pp

−11.1 pp vs TX · 93rd of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

17.0%

90% interval 15.5%–18.5% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

71st 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

Marshall

Traffic fatalities

15

28.14 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

15