Lavaca County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 14,687 71.5%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4,129 20.1%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 749 3.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 71 0.3%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 884 4.3%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 32 0.2%

• Under 18 4,826 23.5%
• 18–24 1,387 6.7%
• 25–44 4,562 22.2%
• 45–64 4,827 23.5%
• 65 and over 4,950 24.1%

Median household income

$68,916

90% interval $61,683–$76,149

−$10,807 vs TX · 95th of 254

Below poverty line

12.4%

90% interval 9.8%–15.0%

−1.0 pp vs TX · 182nd of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.5%

−0.82 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.5B

0.06% of state

Avg. annual pay

$51,121

Establishments

493

• Education & health services 2,008 33.5%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,418 23.7%
• Manufacturing 869 14.5%
• Construction 346 5.8%
• Leisure & hospitality 305 5.1%
• Public administration 228 3.8%
• Professional & business services 201 3.4%
• Financial activities 166 2.8%
• Other services 151 2.5%
• Natural resources & mining 144 2.4%
• Information 55 0.9%
• Unclassified 4 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 98.5% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

78.3%

+15.7 pp vs TX · 73rd of 254

Median gross rent

$910

−$493 vs TX · 152nd of 254

Owner-occupied

6,640

Renter-occupied

1,836

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 72% 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 (Financial activities, $78,454/yr) pays 3.8× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $20,677/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 12 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 9,215 87.9%
• Democratic 1,235 11.8%
• Other / third-party 36 0.3%

• Spanish 1,853 9.6%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 199 1.0%
• German or other West Germanic 51 0.3%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 29 0.2%
• Tagalog 16 0.1%

Households

8,476

Family households

5,638

66.5% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,604

28.4% of families

Single-mother families

383

6.8% of families

Veterans

1,080

6.9% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 12,588 61.9%
• Evangelical Protestant 3,149 15.5%
• Mainline Protestant 1,419 7.0%
• Black Protestant 278 1.4%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 114 0.6%

Health insured

89.5%

±1.7 pp

Uninsured

10.5%

±1.7 pp

241st of 254

With a disability

14.2%

±1.4 pp

171st of 254

Bachelor's or higher

22.2%

±2.5 pp

−11.6 pp vs TX · 100th of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

18.3%

90% interval 16.7%–19.9% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

25th 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

Columbus, Gonzales, Hallettsville, Seguin

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

3

19.08 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

3