Jasper County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 23,921 73.1%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2,288 7.0%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 4,992 15.3%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 147 0.4%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,310 4.0%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 26 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 13 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 30 0.1%

• Under 18 7,617 23.3%
• 18–24 2,419 7.4%
• 25–44 7,213 22.0%
• 45–64 8,564 26.2%
• 65 and over 6,914 21.1%

Median household income

$62,743

90% interval $57,664–$67,822

−$16,980 vs TX · 150th of 254

Below poverty line

15.9%

90% interval 12.6%–19.2%

+2.5 pp vs TX · 95th of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

6.2%

+1.84 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.4B

0.05% of state

Avg. annual pay

$53,849

Establishments

652

• Education & health services 2,512 27.8%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 2,031 22.5%
• Manufacturing 1,311 14.5%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,005 11.1%
• Professional & business services 386 4.3%
• Construction 380 4.2%
• Financial activities 330 3.7%
• Public administration 265 2.9%
• Other services 172 1.9%
• Natural resources & mining 155 1.7%
• Information 82 0.9%
• Unclassified 13 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 95.7% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

79.0%

+16.4 pp vs TX · 63rd of 254

Median gross rent

$848

−$555 vs TX · 177th of 254

Owner-occupied

10,941

Renter-occupied

2,904

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 65% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Manufacturing, $102,427/yr) pays 5.2× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $19,721/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 14 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Republican 13,162 83.1%
• Democratic 2,615 16.5%
• Other / third-party 62 0.4%

• Spanish 1,345 4.4%
• Tagalog 88 0.3%
• German or other West Germanic 84 0.3%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 38 0.1%
• Korean 17 0.1%
• Arabic 5 0.0%

Households

13,845

Family households

9,427

68.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

2,607

27.7% of families

Single-mother families

605

6.4% of families

Veterans

1,812

7.2% of civilians 18+

• 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%

Health insured

81.2%

±2.6 pp

Uninsured

18.8%

±2.6 pp

78th of 254

With a disability

14.4%

±1.7 pp

163rd of 254

Bachelor's or higher

14.0%

±2 pp

−19.8 pp vs TX · 217th of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

17.9%

90% interval 16.3%–19.5% · Census SAHIE

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

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 counties.

Traffic fatalities

11

43.81 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

10