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Jury Pool Profile

Kimble County, Texas

Republican +77.6 (2024)
County seat
Junction
Judicial district
452nd District Court
Population (July 2025 estimate)
4,438
Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 4,389.

At a glance

Kimble County is a 4,438-person venue. The county population is 74% White (Census race-alone categories). 26% identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race. Median household income is $58,887, $20,836 below the TX state median of $79,723; 27.1% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 17.2% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, most commonly Spanish. The largest published sector is Trade, transportation & utilities, at 22.6% of covered employment, average pay $47,390/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.95%, below the 4.32% state average. The county carried the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking 87% to 88% of the vote across the three.

Population
4,389
Median household income
$69,455
Unemployment
4.0%

Who sits on a jury?

Predominantly White

≥70% White (race-alone) and <20% Black. This county: 74% / 1%.

Kimble County has a population of 4,389, with a median age of 47.4. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 74.0%; Black residents 1.4%. Independently, 26.5% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The median household earns $58,887; 27.1% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 15.4% live below the federal poverty line.

Race & ethnicity
  • White (non-Hispanic) 3,071 70.0%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,162 26.5%
  • Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 47 1.1%
  • Asian (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
  • Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 65 1.5%
  • American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 44 1.0%
  • Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
  • Some other race (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Age distribution

Median age 47.4

  • Under 18 746 17.0%
  • 18–24 271 6.2%
  • 25–44 950 21.6%
  • 45–64 1,051 23.9%
  • 65 and over 1,371 31.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Income & poverty
Median household income
$58,887
90% interval $51,975–$65,799
−$20,836 vs TX · 181st of 254
Below poverty line
15.4%
90% interval 11.5%–19.3%
+2.0 pp vs TX · 108th of 254

U.S. Census SAIPE 2024

Economic context

Led by healthcare & education and trade & transportation

Counting the cells BLS withholds (private jobs estimated from Census County Business Patterns, government jobs from the statewide mix), the two largest sectors are within 20% of each other: Education & health services about 290, Trade, transportation & utilities about 260.

Trade, transportation & utilities is the largest published sector at 22.6% of covered employment, followed by Leisure & hospitality at 20.6%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.95%, below the Texas state average.

Local economy
Unemployment (12-mo)
4.0%
−0.37 pp vs. state
County GDP
$199.8M
0.01% of state
Avg. annual pay
$46,464
Establishments
160

U.S. BLS 2026M07 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2025

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

  • Trade, transportation & utilities 264 22.6%
  • Leisure & hospitality 241 20.6%
  • Education & health services 104 8.9%
  • Public administration 74 6.3%
  • Construction 64 5.5%
  • Financial activities 60 5.1%
  • Professional & business services 33 2.8%

The sectors listed cover 71.8% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

BLS QCEW 2025

Housing
Home ownership
78.9%
+16.3 pp vs TX · 64th of 254
Median gross rent
$790
−$613 vs TX · 199th of 254
Owner-occupied
1,611
Renter-occupied
430

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Local economy in 3 reads
  • Diversified

    Top three sectors employ 52% of the workforce, a relatively diversified local economy. Expect mixed employer backgrounds on the panel rather than concentration in any one institution or industry.

  • Moderate wage spread

    Highest-paid sector (Construction, $68,860/yr) pays 2.8× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $24,253/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

  • Small-business scale

    Average establishment employs only 7.3 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

BLS QCEW 2025

Political composition

Consistently strongly Republican

Republican candidate carried this county in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (avg winning share: 87%). 'Strongly' threshold: ≥60% avg.

Kimble County was carried by the Republican candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 88.5% in 2024, 86.7% in 2020, 87.2% in 2016.

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 2,402 votes cast

  • Republican
  • Democratic
Presidential vote share by year
YearRepublicanDemocratic
201687.2%10.6%
202086.7%12.4%
202488.5%10.9%
  • Republican 2,126 88.5%
  • Democratic 261 10.9%
  • Other / third-party 15 0.6%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Family-majority, linguistically diverse

Family households are 60% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 17.2% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).

17.2% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, German or other West Germanic. Veterans account for 9.6% of the adult civilian population (350 individuals).

Languages spoken at home

82.8% speak only English at home

  • Spanish 697 16.7%
  • German or other West Germanic 14 0.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Household composition
Households
2,041
Family households
1,233
60.4% of households
Married couples w/ children
316
25.6% of families
Single-mother families
25
2.0% of families
Veterans
350
9.6% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Religious composition

45.5% overall adherence rate

  • Evangelical Protestant 959 22.4%
  • Mainline Protestant 507 11.8%
  • Catholic 419 9.8%
  • Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 66 1.5%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education
Health insured
86.3%
±3.5 pp
Uninsured
13.7%
±3.5 pp
194th of 254
With a disability
22.3%
±4.8 pp
30th of 254
Bachelor's or higher
27.1%
±4.7 pp
−6.7 pp vs TX · 56th of 254
Uninsured, under 65 (2024)
24.5%
90% interval 22.2%–26.8% · Census SAHIE

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

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Court infrastructure

Court infrastructure
Trial court
452nd 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
Brady, Junction, Mason, Menard, Rocksprings

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Court reference
Traffic safety context

Kimble totals, 2024 — the per-100k rate is based on 1 recorded death, too few to be statistically reliable

Traffic fatalities
1
27.45 per 100k adults (18+)
Fatal crashes
1

NHTSA FARS 2024

About this profile

This profile aggregates publicly available U.S. government statistics for Kimble County, Texas to give trial attorneys venue context for jury selection. It describes the general population of the county, not the qualified jury wheel, and is not legal advice or a substitute for the court's juror records.

Sources as of: U.S. Census ACS 2024 · U.S. BLS 2026M07 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2025 · Election results 2024 · NHTSA FARS 2024 · US Religion Census 2020.

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