Hood County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 53,225 80.8%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 9,069 13.8%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 712 1.1%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 463 0.7%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,981 3.0%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 226 0.3%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 32 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 186 0.3%

• Under 18 13,467 20.4%
• 18–24 4,370 6.6%
• 25–44 14,344 21.8%
• 45–64 16,873 25.6%
• 65 and over 16,840 25.6%

Median household income

$88,438

90% interval $80,355–$96,521

+$8,715 vs TX · 28th of 254

Below poverty line

8.0%

90% interval 6.1%–9.9%

−5.4 pp vs TX · 241st of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.5%

+0.13 pp vs. state

County GDP

$3.6B

0.13% of state

Avg. annual pay

$54,144

Establishments

1,739

• Education & health services 4,328 23.0%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 3,995 21.3%
• Leisure & hospitality 2,866 15.3%
• Professional & business services 1,685 9.0%
• Construction 1,532 8.2%
• Manufacturing 1,365 7.3%
• Financial activities 808 4.3%
• Natural resources & mining 693 3.7%
• Other services 635 3.4%
• Public administration 586 3.1%
• Information 76 0.4%
• Unclassified 33 0.2%

The sectors listed cover 99.0% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

81.2%

+18.6 pp vs TX · 35th of 254

Median gross rent

$1,428

+$25 vs TX · 20th of 254

Owner-occupied

20,716

Renter-occupied

4,807

• 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.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Natural resources & mining, $83,704/yr) pays 3.5× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $23,860/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 11 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 30,174 82.6%
• Democratic 6,070 16.6%
• Other / third-party 294 0.8%

• Spanish 5,371 8.6%
• German or other West Germanic 131 0.2%
• Korean 92 0.1%
• Tagalog 47 0.1%
• Vietnamese 14 0.0%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 12 0.0%
• Chinese 12 0.0%
• Arabic 7 0.0%

Households

25,523

Family households

18,385

72.0% of households

Married couples w/ children

4,650

25.3% of families

Single-mother families

867

4.7% of families

Veterans

5,001

9.5% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 20,899 33.9%
• Catholic 5,358 8.7%
• Mainline Protestant 3,481 5.7%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,303 2.1%

Health insured

85.8%

±1.6 pp

Uninsured

14.2%

±1.6 pp

183rd of 254

With a disability

14.3%

±1 pp

167th of 254

Bachelor's or higher

32.9%

±2 pp

−0.9 pp vs TX · 28th of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

16.3%

90% interval 15.0%–17.6% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

355th 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

Granbury

Traffic fatalities

10

19.07 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

10