Limestone County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 12,184 54.7%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5,243 23.5%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 3,761 16.9%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 219 1.0%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 833 3.7%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 11 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 32 0.1%

• Under 18 4,987 22.4%
• 18–24 1,578 7.1%
• 25–44 5,326 23.9%
• 45–64 5,735 25.7%
• 65 and over 4,657 20.9%

Median household income

$59,502

90% interval $54,489–$64,515

−$20,221 vs TX · 174th of 254

Below poverty line

14.8%

90% interval 11.2%–18.4%

+1.4 pp vs TX · 124th of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.5%

+0.13 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.2B

0.08% of state

Avg. annual pay

$63,025

Establishments

398

• Education & health services 1,874 21.7%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,433 16.6%
• Professional & business services 998 11.5%
• Natural resources & mining 848 9.8%
• Leisure & hospitality 537 6.2%
• Manufacturing 495 5.7%
• Public administration 389 4.5%
• Financial activities 252 2.9%
• Construction 198 2.3%
• Other services 100 1.2%
• Information 28 0.3%
• Unclassified 6 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 82.8% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

72.1%

+9.5 pp vs TX · 150th of 254

Median gross rent

$905

−$498 vs TX · 155th of 254

Owner-occupied

6,051

Renter-occupied

2,338

• Diversified

  Top three sectors employ 50% of the workforce, a relatively diversified local economy. Expect mixed employer backgrounds on the panel rather than concentration in any one institution or industry.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Natural resources & mining, $124,099/yr) pays 6.6× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $18,897/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 22 workers, typical of an institutional-employer economy where large hospitals, plants, schools, and government agencies dominate. Expect many panelists to share an employer rather than work for themselves.

• Republican 7,081 78.1%
• Democratic 1,921 21.2%
• Other / third-party 67 0.7%

• Spanish 3,510 16.7%
• Vietnamese 100 0.5%
• German or other West Germanic 48 0.2%
• Tagalog 8 0.0%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 7 0.0%

Households

8,389

Family households

5,741

68.4% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,280

22.3% of families

Single-mother families

645

11.2% of families

Veterans

1,314

7.6% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 8,571 38.7%
• Catholic 2,181 9.8%
• Mainline Protestant 2,033 9.2%
• Black Protestant 944 4.3%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 701 3.2%

Health insured

82.3%

±2.4 pp

Uninsured

17.7%

±2.4 pp

102nd of 254

With a disability

18.7%

±1.6 pp

69th of 254

Bachelor's or higher

18.5%

±2.5 pp

−15.3 pp vs TX · 154th of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

21.3%

90% interval 19.5%–23.1% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

77th 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

Fairfield, Groesbeck

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

5

28.91 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

5