Jury Pool Profile

Martin County, Texas

Republican +76 (2024)

Population: 5,230
Median household income: $77,083
Unemployment: 3.2%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 3,999 76.5%
Black or African American alone 64 1.2%
Asian alone 0 0.0%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 0 0.0%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
Some other race alone 496 9.5%
Two or more races 671 12.8%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2,383 45.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 37.2

Under 18 1,539 29.4%
18–24 481 9.2%
25–44 1,295 24.8%
45–64 1,353 25.9%
65 and over 562 10.7%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.2%; -1.02 pp vs. state
County GDP: $16.2B; 0.58% of state
Avg. annual pay: $74,343
Establishments: 232

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Trade, transportation & utilities 643 27.5%
Education & health services 520 22.2%
Construction 441 18.8%
Natural resources & mining 288 12.3%
Public administration 90 3.8%
Manufacturing 73 3.1%
Leisure & hospitality 70 3.0%
Professional & business services 57 2.4%
Other services 42 1.8%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 66.9%
Median gross rent: $1,175
Owner-occupied: 1,361
Renter-occupied: 672

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 2,083 votes cast

Republican 1,825 87.6%
Democratic 247 11.9%
Other / third-party 11 0.5%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

67.2% speak only English at home

Spanish 1,474 30.1%
German 129 2.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 2,033
Family households: 1,646; 81.0% of households
Married w/ children: 1,269
Single-mother households: 76
Veterans: 75; 2% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

61.0% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 1,758 33.6%
Catholic 1,057 20.2%
Mainline Protestant 379 7.2%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 84.5%
With a disability: 8.7%
Bachelor's or higher: 17.8%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 118th 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: Big Spring, Garden City, Stanton

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 13; 352.21 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 13

NHTSA FARS 2023