Jefferson County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 92,242 36.3%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 61,240 24.1%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 83,053 32.7%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 9,581 3.8%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 6,586 2.6%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 376 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 77 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 723 0.3%

• Under 18 62,480 24.6%
• 18–24 21,808 8.6%
• 25–44 70,047 27.6%
• 45–64 60,280 23.7%
• 65 and over 39,263 15.5%

Median household income

$59,997

90% interval $55,052–$64,942

−$19,726 vs TX · 172nd of 254

Below poverty line

21.3%

90% interval 19.0%–23.6%

+7.9 pp vs TX · 28th of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

6.0%

+1.73 pp vs. state

County GDP

$27.1B

0.98% of state

Avg. annual pay

$73,587

Establishments

5,771

• Education & health services 25,586 20.5%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 23,621 18.9%
• Construction 17,707 14.2%
• Manufacturing 15,609 12.5%
• Professional & business services 12,615 10.1%
• Leisure & hospitality 11,841 9.5%
• Financial activities 4,708 3.8%
• Public administration 4,191 3.4%
• Other services 2,968 2.4%
• Information 796 0.6%
• Natural resources & mining 607 0.5%
• Unclassified 89 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 96.4% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

62.5%

−0.1 pp vs TX · 227th of 254

Median gross rent

$1,117

−$286 vs TX · 58th of 254

Owner-occupied

59,256

Renter-occupied

35,551

• Diversified

  Top three sectors employ 54% 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 (Manufacturing, $128,969/yr) pays 5.3× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $24,321/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 22 workers, typical of an institutional-employer economy where large hospitals, plants, schools, and government agencies dominate. Expect many panelists to share an employer rather than work for themselves.

• Republican 46,596 54.0%
• Democratic 38,936 45.1%
• Other / third-party 740 0.9%

• Spanish 44,719 18.9%
• Vietnamese 3,525 1.5%
• Tagalog 832 0.4%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 662 0.3%
• German or other West Germanic 433 0.2%
• Chinese 343 0.1%
• Arabic 303 0.1%
• Korean 104 0.0%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 53 0.0%

Households

94,807

Family households

61,492

64.9% of households

Married couples w/ children

15,187

24.7% of families

Single-mother families

9,595

15.6% of families

Veterans

12,733

6.7% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 67,727 26.4%
• Evangelical Protestant 65,376 25.5%
• Black Protestant 25,141 9.8%
• Mainline Protestant 10,882 4.2%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 10,078 3.9%
• Orthodox 200 0.1%

Health insured

79.4%

±1.1 pp

Uninsured

20.6%

±1.1 pp

54th of 254

With a disability

15.0%

±0.6 pp

146th of 254

Bachelor's or higher

19.7%

±0.9 pp

−14.1 pp vs TX · 140th of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

20.3%

90% interval 18.9%–21.7% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

58th District Court

Judges

5 (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

Beaumont

Traffic fatalities

45

23.51 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

43