Hopkins County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 26,619 70.5%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 7,066 18.7%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 2,652 7.0%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 327 0.9%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 790 2.1%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 135 0.4%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 34 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 161 0.4%

• Under 18 9,172 24.3%
• 18–24 3,136 8.3%
• 25–44 8,860 23.4%
• 45–64 9,542 25.3%
• 65 and over 7,074 18.7%

Median household income

$71,078

90% interval $65,043–$77,113

−$8,645 vs TX · 79th of 254

Below poverty line

13.4%

90% interval 10.7%–16.1%

+0.0 pp vs TX · 167th of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.5%

−0.83 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.7B

0.1% of state

Avg. annual pay

$56,573

Establishments

972

• Trade, transportation & utilities 3,813 25.9%
• Education & health services 3,019 20.5%
• Manufacturing 2,929 19.9%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,369 9.3%
• Financial activities 877 6.0%
• Construction 791 5.4%
• Professional & business services 738 5.0%
• Public administration 363 2.5%
• Other services 265 1.8%
• Natural resources & mining 209 1.4%
• Information 90 0.6%
• Unclassified 17 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 98.5% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

71.1%

+8.5 pp vs TX · 164th of 254

Median gross rent

$1,109

−$294 vs TX · 60th of 254

Owner-occupied

9,957

Renter-occupied

4,045

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 66% of the county workforce. Most panelists likely share employer relationships within these sectors, surface those connections early in voir dire before any institutional-defendant or sector-specific framing.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $70,547/yr) pays 2.8× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $25,029/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• 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 13,754 82.0%
• Democratic 2,917 17.4%
• Other / third-party 102 0.6%

• Spanish 5,602 15.9%
• Vietnamese 158 0.4%
• German or other West Germanic 93 0.3%
• Arabic 37 0.1%
• Tagalog 32 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 7 0.0%
• Korean 6 0.0%

Households

14,002

Family households

10,109

72.2% of households

Married couples w/ children

2,932

29.0% of families

Single-mother families

622

6.2% of families

Veterans

1,849

6.5% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 13,078 35.6%
• Black Protestant 2,986 8.1%
• Catholic 1,948 5.3%
• Mainline Protestant 1,556 4.2%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 945 2.6%

Health insured

81.3%

±1.8 pp

Uninsured

18.7%

±1.8 pp

80th of 254

With a disability

14.6%

±1.2 pp

159th of 254

Bachelor's or higher

21.9%

±2.1 pp

−11.9 pp vs TX · 107th of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

23.0%

90% interval 21.2%–24.8% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

8th 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

Cooper, Emory, Mount Vernon, Sulphur Springs

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

3

10.49 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

3