Jury Pool Profile

Henderson County, Texas

Republican +63 (2024)

Population: 83,658
Median household income: $63,955
Unemployment: 4.6%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 67,374 80.5%
Black or African American alone 4,430 5.3%
Asian alone 591 0.7%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 312 0.4%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 87 0.1%
Some other race alone 1,706 2.0%
Two or more races 9,158 10.9%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 11,964 14.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 43.8

Under 18 17,936 21.4%
18–24 6,510 7.8%
25–44 18,358 21.9%
45–64 22,127 26.4%
65 and over 18,727 22.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.6%; +0.34 pp vs. state
County GDP: $2.8B; 0.1% of state
Avg. annual pay: $48,745
Establishments: 1,656

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 4,289 22.0%
Trade, transportation & utilities 4,224 21.6%
Leisure & hospitality 2,872 14.7%
Manufacturing 2,539 13.0%
Construction 1,444 7.4%
Professional & business services 1,234 6.3%
Public administration 901 4.6%
Financial activities 750 3.8%
Other services 620 3.2%
Natural resources & mining 298 1.5%
Information 208 1.1%
Unclassified 24 0.1%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 76.5%
Median gross rent: $978
Owner-occupied: 24,939
Renter-occupied: 7,658

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 38,528 votes cast

Republican 31,379 81.4%
Democratic 6,919 18.0%
Other / third-party 230 0.6%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

89.0% speak only English at home

Spanish 7,619 9.6%
Other Indo-European 344 0.4%
Other Asian/Pacific 271 0.3%
Arabic 254 0.3%
German 88 0.1%
Tagalog 55 0.1%
French (incl. Cajun) 33 0.0%
Chinese 13 0.0%
Vietnamese 7 0.0%
Slavic languages 3 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 32,597
Family households: 22,416; 68.8% of households
Married w/ children: 17,315
Single-mother households: 1,554
Veterans: 5,635; 8.6% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

48.5% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 26,596 32.4%
Catholic 6,659 8.1%
Mainline Protestant 3,834 4.7%
Black Protestant 1,802 2.2%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 947 1.2%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 82.2%
With a disability: 18.5%
Bachelor's or higher: 20.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 3rd 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: Athens, Crockett, Palestine

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 22; 33.47 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 20

NHTSA FARS 2023