Jury Pool Profile

Jackson County, Texas

Republican +71 (2024)

Population: 15,081
Median household income: $61,752
Unemployment: 4.2%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 10,940 72.5%
Black or African American alone 894 5.9%
Asian alone 313 2.1%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 15 0.1%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
Some other race alone 1,128 7.5%
Two or more races 1,791 11.9%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4,948 32.8%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 42.1

Under 18 3,658 24.3%
18–24 1,111 7.4%
25–44 3,368 22.3%
45–64 3,973 26.3%
65 and over 2,971 19.7%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.2%; -0.02 pp vs. state
County GDP: $772.1M; 0.03% of state
Avg. annual pay: $56,510
Establishments: 424

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 1,031 18.3%
Construction 920 16.3%
Trade, transportation & utilities 814 14.5%
Leisure & hospitality 311 5.5%
Financial activities 261 4.6%
Public administration 154 2.7%
Other services 144 2.6%
Professional & business services 141 2.5%
Information 58 1.0%
Unclassified 10 0.2%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 70.1%
Median gross rent: $1,011
Owner-occupied: 3,803
Renter-occupied: 1,621

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 6,329 votes cast

Republican 5,386 85.1%
Democratic 907 14.3%
Other / third-party 36 0.6%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

80.3% speak only English at home

Spanish 2,641 18.7%
Slavic languages 43 0.3%
Other Indo-European 43 0.3%
German 25 0.2%
Chinese 23 0.2%
Korean 7 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 5,424
Family households: 4,113; 75.8% of households
Married w/ children: 3,149
Single-mother households: 333
Veterans: 669; 5.9% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

61.3% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 4,195 28.0%
Catholic 3,710 24.8%
Mainline Protestant 1,142 7.6%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 142 0.9%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 83.0%
With a disability: 14.3%
Bachelor's or higher: 15.9%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 24th 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: Cuero, Edna, Goliad, Port Lavaca, Refugio, Victoria

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 6; 52.53 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 5

NHTSA FARS 2023