Jury Pool Profile

Hockley County, Texas

Republican +66 (2024)

Population: 21,455
Median household income: $54,810
Unemployment: 3.9%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 13,547 63.1%
Black or African American alone 769 3.6%
Asian alone 49 0.2%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 82 0.4%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
Some other race alone 1,568 7.3%
Two or more races 5,440 25.4%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 10,644 49.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 35.8

Under 18 5,695 26.5%
18–24 2,065 9.6%
25–44 5,585 26.0%
45–64 4,847 22.6%
65 and over 3,263 15.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.9%; -0.34 pp vs. state
County GDP: $1.9B; 0.07% of state
Avg. annual pay: $65,382
Establishments: 614

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Natural resources & mining 2,402 27.1%
Education & health services 2,149 24.2%
Trade, transportation & utilities 1,563 17.6%
Other services 760 8.6%
Leisure & hospitality 575 6.5%
Construction 364 4.1%
Professional & business services 295 3.3%
Public administration 294 3.3%
Financial activities 208 2.3%
Manufacturing 188 2.1%
Information 21 0.2%
Unclassified 2 0.0%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 72.6%
Median gross rent: $813
Owner-occupied: 5,848
Renter-occupied: 2,210

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 7,987 votes cast

Republican 6,616 82.8%
Democratic 1,323 16.6%
Other / third-party 48 0.6%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

74.0% speak only English at home

Spanish 5,037 25.2%
German 47 0.2%
Chinese 16 0.1%
French (incl. Cajun) 15 0.1%
Arabic 15 0.1%
Other Asian/Pacific 14 0.1%
Other 14 0.1%
Slavic languages 13 0.1%
Other Indo-European 12 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 8,058
Family households: 5,834; 72.4% of households
Married w/ children: 4,263
Single-mother households: 689
Veterans: 803; 5.1% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

61.9% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 7,193 33.4%
Catholic 4,641 21.5%
Mainline Protestant 813 3.8%
Black Protestant 400 1.9%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 278 1.3%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 81.4%
With a disability: 15.9%
Bachelor's or higher: 18.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 286th 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: Levelland, Morton

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 10; 63.45 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 9

NHTSA FARS 2023