Houston County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 12,783 58.0%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3,187 14.5%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 4,603 20.9%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 84 0.4%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,242 5.6%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 125 0.6%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 5 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 22 0.1%

• Under 18 4,479 20.3%
• 18–24 1,258 5.7%
• 25–44 5,607 25.4%
• 45–64 5,809 26.3%
• 65 and over 4,898 22.2%

Median household income

$55,607

90% interval $50,790–$60,424

−$24,116 vs TX · 210th of 254

Below poverty line

19.3%

90% interval 14.4%–24.2%

+5.9 pp vs TX · 45th of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.7%

+0.33 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.3B

0.05% of state

Avg. annual pay

$67,857

Establishments

958

• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,456 19.0%
• Education & health services 1,416 18.5%
• Manufacturing 930 12.1%
• Professional & business services 859 11.2%
• Leisure & hospitality 684 8.9%
• Natural resources & mining 397 5.2%
• Financial activities 336 4.4%
• Construction 312 4.1%
• Other services 296 3.9%
• Public administration 282 3.7%
• Information 99 1.3%
• Unclassified 13 0.2%

The sectors listed cover 92.3% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

70.6%

+8.0 pp vs TX · 170th of 254

Median gross rent

$887

−$516 vs TX · 159th of 254

Owner-occupied

5,639

Renter-occupied

2,344

• Diversified

  Top three sectors employ 50% of the workforce, a relatively diversified local economy. Expect mixed employer backgrounds on the panel rather than concentration in any one institution or industry.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Professional & business services, $113,863/yr) pays 5.7× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $19,965/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Small-business scale

  Average establishment employs only 8.0 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

• Republican 7,247 77.4%
• Democratic 2,065 22.1%
• Other / third-party 50 0.5%

• Spanish 1,757 8.4%
• Arabic 48 0.2%
• German or other West Germanic 22 0.1%
• Tagalog 12 0.1%

Households

7,983

Family households

5,339

66.9% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,134

21.2% of families

Single-mother families

575

10.8% of families

Veterans

1,419

8.1% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 7,773 35.2%
• Black Protestant 1,986 9.0%
• Catholic 1,809 8.2%
• Mainline Protestant 1,194 5.4%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2 0.0%

Health insured

88.5%

±2.5 pp

Uninsured

11.5%

±2.5 pp

228th of 254

With a disability

24.2%

±2.1 pp

18th of 254

Bachelor's or higher

14.8%

±2.1 pp

−19.0 pp vs TX · 207th of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

20.1%

90% interval 18.2%–22.0% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

3rd 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

Athens, Crockett, Palestine

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

13

73.98 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

11