Jury Pool Profile

Hopkins County, Texas

Republican +65 (2024)

Population: 37,351
Median household income: $64,725
Unemployment: 3.3%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 30,031 80.4%
Black or African American alone 2,641 7.1%
Asian alone 338 0.9%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 150 0.4%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 41 0.1%
Some other race alone 1,520 4.1%
Two or more races 2,630 7.0%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6,812 18.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 39.6

Under 18 9,114 24.4%
18–24 3,018 8.1%
25–44 8,795 23.5%
45–64 9,566 25.6%
65 and over 6,858 18.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.3%; -0.88 pp vs. state
County GDP: $2.7B; 0.1% of state
Avg. annual pay: $54,724
Establishments: 979

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Trade, transportation & utilities 3,866 26.9%
Education & health services 2,990 20.8%
Manufacturing 2,695 18.8%
Leisure & hospitality 1,344 9.4%
Financial activities 836 5.8%
Construction 724 5.0%
Professional & business services 719 5.0%
Public administration 453 3.2%
Other services 307 2.1%
Natural resources & mining 199 1.4%
Information 89 0.6%
Unclassified 9 0.1%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 69.9%
Median gross rent: $1,038
Owner-occupied: 9,704
Renter-occupied: 4,174

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 16,773 votes cast

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

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

84.2% speak only English at home

Spanish 5,131 14.6%
Vietnamese 166 0.5%
German 100 0.3%
Arabic 32 0.1%
Other Indo-European 26 0.1%
Tagalog 26 0.1%
Other Asian/Pacific 22 0.1%
French (incl. Cajun) 8 0.0%
Other 8 0.0%
Korean 6 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 13,878
Family households: 9,852; 71.0% of households
Married w/ children: 7,436
Single-mother households: 707
Veterans: 1,795; 6.4% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

55.8% overall adherence rate

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%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 81.2%
With a disability: 14.5%
Bachelor's or higher: 20.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

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

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 13; 46.04 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 13

NHTSA FARS 2023