Jury Pool Profile

Hood County, Texas

Republican +66 (2024)

Population: 64,198
Median household income: $86,802
Unemployment: 4.2%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 55,175 85.9%
Black or African American alone 694 1.1%
Asian alone 474 0.7%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 234 0.4%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 27 0.0%
Some other race alone 1,741 2.7%
Two or more races 5,853 9.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 8,569 13.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 46.3

Under 18 13,281 20.7%
18–24 4,251 6.6%
25–44 13,728 21.4%
45–64 16,636 25.9%
65 and over 16,302 25.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.2%; +0 pp vs. state
County GDP: $3.6B; 0.13% of state
Avg. annual pay: $51,551
Establishments: 1,700

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 4,269 23.0%
Trade, transportation & utilities 4,001 21.6%
Leisure & hospitality 2,769 14.9%
Professional & business services 1,614 8.7%
Construction 1,520 8.2%
Manufacturing 1,147 6.2%
Financial activities 849 4.6%
Natural resources & mining 763 4.1%
Other services 734 4.0%
Public administration 627 3.4%
Information 88 0.5%
Unclassified 41 0.2%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 81.3%
Median gross rent: $1,414
Owner-occupied: 20,320
Renter-occupied: 4,668

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 36,538 votes cast

Republican 30,174 82.6%
Democratic 6,070 16.6%
Other / third-party 294 0.8%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

91.0% speak only English at home

Spanish 4,912 8.1%
Other Indo-European 209 0.3%
German 117 0.2%
Korean 88 0.1%
Other Asian/Pacific 46 0.1%
French (incl. Cajun) 24 0.0%
Tagalog 22 0.0%
Vietnamese 20 0.0%
Chinese 16 0.0%
Arabic 8 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 24,988
Family households: 18,395; 73.6% of households
Married w/ children: 15,609
Single-mother households: 953
Veterans: 4,838; 9.5% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

50.4% overall adherence rate

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%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 84.8%
With a disability: 13.9%
Bachelor's or higher: 32.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

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

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 8; 15.71 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 8

NHTSA FARS 2023