Jury Pool Profile

Lamar County, Texas

Republican +61 (2024)

Population: 50,421
Median household income: $61,122
Unemployment: 4.2%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 38,898 77.1%
Black or African American alone 6,254 12.4%
Asian alone 453 0.9%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 389 0.8%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 117 0.2%
Some other race alone 889 1.8%
Two or more races 3,421 6.8%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4,659 9.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 40

Under 18 12,185 24.2%
18–24 3,897 7.7%
25–44 11,977 23.8%
45–64 12,614 25.0%
65 and over 9,748 19.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.2%; -0.02 pp vs. state
County GDP: $3.6B; 0.13% of state
Avg. annual pay: $52,468
Establishments: 1,354

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 5,648 25.3%
Manufacturing 5,324 23.8%
Trade, transportation & utilities 3,737 16.7%
Leisure & hospitality 2,351 10.5%
Professional & business services 1,621 7.3%
Construction 1,412 6.3%
Financial activities 730 3.3%
Public administration 634 2.8%
Other services 404 1.8%
Natural resources & mining 125 0.6%
Information 114 0.5%
Unclassified 15 0.1%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 65.8%
Median gross rent: $897
Owner-occupied: 13,202
Renter-occupied: 6,854

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 21,236 votes cast

Republican 17,044 80.3%
Democratic 4,079 19.2%
Other / third-party 113 0.5%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

91.2% speak only English at home

Spanish 2,579 5.5%
German 848 1.8%
Other Asian/Pacific 229 0.5%
Other 196 0.4%
Other Indo-European 102 0.2%
Slavic languages 67 0.1%
Vietnamese 60 0.1%
Tagalog 33 0.1%
Chinese 30 0.1%
French (incl. Cajun) 5 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 20,056
Family households: 13,594; 67.8% of households
Married w/ children: 9,604
Single-mother households: 1,709
Veterans: 2,622; 6.9% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

52.4% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 18,531 37.0%
Catholic 3,329 6.6%
Mainline Protestant 2,722 5.4%
Black Protestant 890 1.8%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 761 1.5%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 81.0%
With a disability: 18.1%
Bachelor's or higher: 20.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 6th 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: Bonham, Clarksville, Paris

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 17; 44.46 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 11

NHTSA FARS 2023