Jury Pool Profile

Johnson County, Texas

Republican +51 (2024)

Population: 188,820
Median household income: $81,826
Unemployment: 3.7%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 143,407 75.9%
Black or African American alone 9,216 4.9%
Asian alone 2,109 1.1%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 942 0.5%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 188 0.1%
Some other race alone 9,745 5.2%
Two or more races 23,213 12.3%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 46,403 24.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 37.2

Under 18 48,899 25.9%
18–24 16,442 8.7%
25–44 50,557 26.8%
45–64 46,423 24.6%
65 and over 26,499 14.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.7%; -0.5 pp vs. state
County GDP: $9.6B; 0.35% of state
Avg. annual pay: $57,550
Establishments: 4,062

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Trade, transportation & utilities 13,302 22.2%
Education & health services 11,735 19.6%
Manufacturing 8,878 14.8%
Leisure & hospitality 6,469 10.8%
Construction 6,173 10.3%
Professional & business services 3,833 6.4%
Natural resources & mining 3,092 5.2%
Public administration 2,127 3.5%
Other services 2,022 3.4%
Financial activities 1,536 2.6%
Information 499 0.8%
Unclassified 52 0.1%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 74.5%
Median gross rent: $1,343
Owner-occupied: 47,274
Renter-occupied: 16,203

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 80,691 votes cast

Republican 60,752 75.3%
Democratic 19,247 23.9%
Other / third-party 692 0.9%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

82.3% speak only English at home

Spanish 27,404 15.5%
Other Indo-European 883 0.5%
Other Asian/Pacific 695 0.4%
Other 488 0.3%
Korean 378 0.2%
Vietnamese 345 0.2%
Arabic 305 0.2%
German 260 0.1%
Slavic languages 234 0.1%
French (incl. Cajun) 171 0.1%
Tagalog 155 0.1%
Chinese 34 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 63,477
Family households: 48,806; 76.9% of households
Married w/ children: 38,193
Single-mother households: 3,802
Veterans: 8,648; 6.2% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

36.5% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 52,409 29.1%
Mainline Protestant 5,666 3.1%
Catholic 3,286 1.8%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 3,219 1.8%
Black Protestant 1,060 0.6%
Orthodox 50 0.0%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 83.6%
With a disability: 11.3%
Bachelor's or higher: 23.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 18th 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: Cleburne, Glen Rose

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 31; 22.16 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 25

NHTSA FARS 2023