Jury Pool Profile
Jasper County, Texas
Republican +67 (2024)
- Population
- 32,807
- Median household income
- $49,919
- Unemployment
- 6.0%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 24,577 74.9%
- Black or African American alone 5,061 15.4%
- Asian alone 158 0.5%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 2 0.0%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 8 0.0%
- Some other race alone 991 3.0%
- Two or more races 2,010 6.1%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2,248 6.9%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 42.5
- Under 18 7,713 23.5%
- 18–24 2,327 7.1%
- 25–44 7,238 22.1%
- 45–64 8,739 26.6%
- 65 and over 6,790 20.7%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 6.0%
- +1.81 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $1.4B
- 0.05% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $53,026
- Establishments
- 675
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 2,503 27.6%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 2,100 23.1%
- Manufacturing 1,341 14.8%
- Leisure & hospitality 959 10.6%
- Public administration 549 6.1%
- Professional & business services 396 4.4%
- Construction 354 3.9%
- Financial activities 324 3.6%
- Natural resources & mining 189 2.1%
- Other services 170 1.9%
- Information 48 0.5%
- Unclassified 14 0.2%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 77.7%
- Median gross rent
- $790
- Owner-occupied
- 10,619
- Renter-occupied
- 3,048
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 15,839 votes cast
- Republican 13,162 83.1%
- Democratic 2,615 16.5%
- Other / third-party 62 0.4%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
94.3% speak only English at home
- Spanish 1,340 4.3%
- French (incl. Cajun) 100 0.3%
- German 96 0.3%
- Other Indo-European 84 0.3%
- Tagalog 78 0.3%
- Other Asian/Pacific 41 0.1%
- Korean 18 0.1%
- Slavic languages 7 0.0%
- Arabic 4 0.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 13,667
- Family households
- 9,126
- 66.8% of households
- Married w/ children
- 6,657
- Single-mother households
- 736
- Veterans
- 1,852
- 7.4% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
67.1% overall adherence rate
- Evangelical Protestant 16,855 51.1%
- Black Protestant 1,866 5.7%
- Mainline Protestant 1,546 4.7%
- Catholic 1,060 3.2%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 814 2.5%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 81.3%
- With a disability
- 13.9%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 12.6%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 1st 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
- Hemphill, Jasper, Newton, San Augustine, Woodville
This judicial district spans multiple countys.
Traffic safety context
Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 11
- 43.84 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 10
NHTSA FARS 2023