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Jury Pool Profile

King County, Texas

Republican +91.2 (2024)
County seat
Guthrie
Judicial district
50th District Court
Population (July 2025 estimate)
192
Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 211.

At a glance

King County is a 192-person venue. The county population is 69% White (Census race-alone categories). 17% identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race. Median household income is $88,031, $8,308 above the TX state median of $79,723; 38.9% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The largest employment sector is Professional & business services, at 40.1% of covered employment, average pay $56,888/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 2.56%, below the 4.32% state average. The county carried the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking 94% to 96% of the vote across the three.

Population
211
Median household income
$46,645
Unemployment
2.6%

Who sits on a jury?

Racially mixed

50–70% White and ≥15% Black. This county: 69% / 0%.

King County has a population of 211, with a median age of 49.4. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 69.2%; Black residents 0.0%. Independently, 16.6% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The median household earns $88,031; 38.9% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 13.5% live below the federal poverty line.

Race & ethnicity
  • White (non-Hispanic) 146 69.2%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 35 16.6%
  • Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
  • Asian (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
  • Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 30 14.2%
  • American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
  • 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 49.4

  • Under 18 31 14.7%
  • 18–24 0 0.0%
  • 25–44 70 33.2%
  • 45–64 45 21.3%
  • 65 and over 65 30.8%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Income & poverty
Median household income
$88,031
90% interval $77,097–$98,965
+$8,308 vs TX · 30th of 254
Below poverty line
13.5%
90% interval 10.3%–16.7%
+0.1 pp vs TX · 163rd of 254

U.S. Census SAIPE 2024

Economic context

Professional services anchored

Largest sector in BLS QCEW, even counting every withheld job toward the other sectors: Professional & business services, about 40% of covered jobs.

Professional & business services is the largest employment sector at 40.1% of covered employment, followed by Natural resources & mining at 28.8%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 2.56%, below the Texas state average.

Local economy
Unemployment (12-mo)
2.6%
−1.76 pp vs. state
County GDP
$114.3M
0% of state
Avg. annual pay
$55,157
Establishments
27

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

  • Professional & business services 107 40.1%
  • Natural resources & mining 77 28.8%
  • Trade, transportation & utilities 2 0.7%
  • Public administration 1 0.4%

The sectors listed cover 70.0% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

BLS QCEW 2025

Housing
Home ownership
59.5%
Owner-occupied
66
Renter-occupied
45

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Local economy in 4 reads
  • Concentrated

    Top three sectors employ 70% of the county workforce. Most panelists likely share employer relationships within these sectors, surface those connections early in voir dire before any institutional-defendant or sector-specific framing.

  • Compressed wage spread

    Highest-paid sector pays only 1.1× the lowest ($62,134 vs $56,888/yr), a relatively flat local wage distribution.

  • Small-business scale

    Average establishment employs only 9.9 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

  • Small-sector pay

    The $82,545 average in Public administration is BLS's published figure for 1 job. With so few jobs, a few high-paying employers or contracts can set the average, so it is left out of the wage-spread read.

BLS QCEW 2025

Political composition

Consistently strongly Republican

Republican candidate carried this county in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (avg winning share: 95%). 'Strongly' threshold: ≥60% avg.

King County was carried by the Republican candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 95.6% in 2024, 95.0% in 2020, 93.7% in 2016.

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 135 votes cast

  • Republican
  • Democratic
Presidential vote share by year
YearRepublicanDemocratic
201693.7%3.1%
202095.0%5.0%
202495.6%4.4%
  • Republican 129 95.6%
  • Democratic 6 4.4%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Family-dominant, English-speaking

Family households are 88% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 0.0% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).

0.0% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. Veterans account for 1.1% of the adult civilian population (2 individuals).

Household composition
Households
111
Family households
98
88.3% of households
Married couples w/ children
31
31.6% of families
Single-mother families
19
19.4% of families
Veterans
2
1.1% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Religious composition

452.5% overall adherence rate

  • Evangelical Protestant 1,199 452.5%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education
Health insured
92.4%
±7.7 pp — too imprecise at this sample size to compare
With a disability
18.0%
±11.5 pp — too imprecise at this sample size to compare
Bachelor's or higher
38.9%
±27 pp — too imprecise at this sample size to compare
Uninsured, under 65 (2024)
25.9%
90% interval 23.0%–28.8% · 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
50th 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
Benjamin, Guthrie, Paducah, Seymour

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Court reference
Traffic safety context

King totals, 2024 — the per-100k rate is based on 0 recorded deaths, too few to be statistically reliable

Traffic fatalities
0
0 per 100k adults (18+)
Fatal crashes
0

NHTSA FARS 2024

About this profile

This profile aggregates publicly available U.S. government statistics for King 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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