Lamar County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 36,121 71.3%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4,871 9.6%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 6,086 12.0%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 470 0.9%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 2,535 5.0%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 315 0.6%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 250 0.5%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 21 0.0%

• Under 18 12,194 24.1%
• 18–24 3,995 7.9%
• 25–44 12,044 23.8%
• 45–64 12,536 24.7%
• 65 and over 9,900 19.5%

Median household income

$59,226

90% interval $53,096–$65,356

−$20,497 vs TX · 178th of 254

Below poverty line

17.2%

90% interval 14.2%–20.2%

+3.8 pp vs TX · 72nd of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.6%

+0.25 pp vs. state

County GDP

$3.6B

0.13% of state

Avg. annual pay

$53,747

Establishments

1,343

• Education & health services 5,733 25.8%
• Manufacturing 4,857 21.9%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 3,912 17.6%
• Leisure & hospitality 2,380 10.7%
• Professional & business services 1,762 7.9%
• Construction 1,357 6.1%
• Financial activities 713 3.2%
• Public administration 512 2.3%
• Other services 398 1.8%
• Natural resources & mining 116 0.5%
• Information 111 0.5%
• Unclassified 16 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 98.4% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

66.1%

+3.5 pp vs TX · 210th of 254

Median gross rent

$949

−$454 vs TX · 128th of 254

Owner-occupied

13,226

Renter-occupied

6,793

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 65% 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.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Construction, $73,319/yr) pays 4.0× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $18,496/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 17 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

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

• Spanish 3,007 6.3%
• German or other West Germanic 829 1.7%
• Vietnamese 83 0.2%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 71 0.1%
• Tagalog 36 0.1%
• Chinese 30 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 9 0.0%

Households

20,019

Family households

13,507

67.5% of households

Married couples w/ children

3,272

24.2% of families

Single-mother families

1,751

13.0% of families

Veterans

2,760

7.2% of civilians 18+

• 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%

Health insured

80.7%

±2.1 pp

Uninsured

19.3%

±2.1 pp

65th of 254

With a disability

17.8%

±1.5 pp

84th of 254

Bachelor's or higher

21.6%

±2 pp

−12.2 pp vs TX · 109th of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

19.1%

90% interval 17.4%–20.8% · Census SAHIE

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

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

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

8

20.79 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

8