Jury Pool Profile
Howard County, Texas
Republican +63 (2024)
- Population
- 33,127
- Median household income
- $71,457
- Unemployment
- 3.5%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 23,000 69.4%
- Black or African American alone 1,862 5.6%
- Asian alone 384 1.2%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 131 0.4%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 33 0.1%
- Some other race alone 2,496 7.5%
- Two or more races 5,221 15.8%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 15,547 46.9%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 37
- Under 18 7,461 22.5%
- 18–24 2,903 8.8%
- 25–44 10,269 31.0%
- 45–64 8,165 24.6%
- 65 and over 4,329 13.1%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 3.5%
- -0.72 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $10.0B
- 0.36% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $65,285
- Establishments
- 922
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 3,670 28.7%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 2,632 20.6%
- Leisure & hospitality 1,413 11.1%
- Natural resources & mining 1,010 7.9%
- Construction 698 5.5%
- Manufacturing 680 5.3%
- Professional & business services 617 4.8%
- Public administration 549 4.3%
- Financial activities 402 3.1%
- Other services 264 2.1%
- Information 159 1.2%
- Unclassified 3 0.0%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 68.6%
- Median gross rent
- $993
- Owner-occupied
- 8,186
- Renter-occupied
- 3,741
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 9,640 votes cast
- Republican 7,817 81.1%
- Democratic 1,759 18.2%
- Other / third-party 64 0.7%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
68.9% speak only English at home
- Spanish 9,190 29.5%
- Other Indo-European 114 0.4%
- German 107 0.3%
- Tagalog 92 0.3%
- French (incl. Cajun) 83 0.3%
- Other 56 0.2%
- Other Asian/Pacific 33 0.1%
- Korean 13 0.0%
- Arabic 9 0.0%
- Chinese 1 0.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 11,927
- Family households
- 7,539
- 63.2% of households
- Married w/ children
- 5,426
- Single-mother households
- 706
- Veterans
- 1,557
- 6.1% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
55.2% overall adherence rate
- Evangelical Protestant 11,167 32.0%
- Catholic 5,552 15.9%
- Mainline Protestant 1,142 3.3%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 752 2.2%
- Black Protestant 642 1.8%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 85.8%
- With a disability
- 16.7%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 15.3%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 118th 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
- Big Spring, Garden City, Stanton
This judicial district spans multiple countys.
Traffic safety context
Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 11
- 42.86 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 10
NHTSA FARS 2023