Jury Pool Profile
La Salle County, Texas
- County seat
- Cotulla
- Judicial district
- 81st District Court
- Population (July 2025 estimate)
- 6,517
- Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 6,839.
At a glance
La Salle County is a 6,517-person venue. The county population is 33% White and 6% Black (Census race-alone categories). 72% identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race. Those figures overlap rather than adding up; counted separately, non-Hispanic White residents are 19.5%, which is the basis the chart below uses. Median household income is $52,075, $27,648 below the TX state median of $79,723; 11.8% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 47.6% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, most commonly Spanish. The largest employment sector is Natural resources & mining, at 35.6% of covered employment, average pay $128,779/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 4.47%, above the 4.32% state average. The county has not voted for the same party across the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles . See Section 3 for cycle-by-cycle breakdowns. At least 17% of residents here live in group quarters rather than households, barracks, dormitories, correctional facilities or nursing homes; the ACS survey and the 2020 census disagree on how many, and this is the lower of the two, so the figures above describe a population substantially larger than the one a summons reaches.
- Population
- 6,839
- Median household income
- $57,716
- Unemployment
- 4.5%
Who sits on a jury?
<50% in any single race-alone group. White here: 33%; Black: 6%.
La Salle County has a population of 6,839, with a median age of 35.5. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 33.3%; Black residents 5.8%. Independently, 71.8% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.
The median household earns $52,075; 11.8% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 27.3% live below the federal poverty line.
Economic context
Largest sector in BLS QCEW, even counting every withheld job toward the other sectors: Natural resources & mining, about 36% of covered jobs. Oil and gas (private NAICS 211, 213111, 213112) is about 32.7% of all jobs, at or above the 5% bar.
Natural resources & mining is the largest employment sector at 35.6% of covered employment, followed by Public administration at 13.9%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 4.47%, above the Texas state average.
Political composition
Different parties won across the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles.
La Salle County was carried by the Republican candidate with 60.0% of the vote in 2024; the Republican candidate with 55.5% of the vote in 2020; the Democratic candidate with 54.9% of the vote in 2016.
Languages, households, faith & health
Family households are 74% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 47.6% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).
47.6% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, Vietnamese. Veterans account for 4.7% of the adult civilian population (249 individuals).