Mason County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 3,157 79.8%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 749 18.9%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 2 0.1%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 8 0.2%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 39 1.0%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%

• Under 18 758 19.2%
• 18–24 234 5.9%
• 25–44 728 18.4%
• 45–64 843 21.3%
• 65 and over 1,392 35.2%

Median household income

$71,056

90% interval $63,056–$79,056

−$8,667 vs TX · 80th of 254

Below poverty line

11.2%

90% interval 8.3%–14.1%

−2.2 pp vs TX · 201st of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.8%

−0.55 pp vs. state

County GDP

$155.6M

0.01% of state

Avg. annual pay

$50,284

Establishments

176

• Trade, transportation & utilities 251 22.6%
• Leisure & hospitality 112 10.1%
• Natural resources & mining 101 9.1%
• Education & health services 80 7.2%
• Professional & business services 70 6.3%
• Financial activities 62 5.6%
• Public administration 9 0.8%

The sectors listed cover 61.7% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

79.7%

+17.1 pp vs TX · 54th of 254

Median gross rent

$800

−$603 vs TX · 197th of 254

Owner-occupied

1,364

Renter-occupied

347

• Diversified

  Top three sectors employ 42% of the workforce, a relatively diversified local economy. Expect mixed employer backgrounds on the panel rather than concentration in any one institution or industry.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $77,025/yr) pays 3.5× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $22,323/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Small-business scale

  Average establishment employs only 6.3 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

• Republican 2,076 82.2%
• Democratic 434 17.2%
• Other / third-party 16 0.6%

• Spanish 629 16.8%
• German or other West Germanic 77 2.1%
• Tagalog 8 0.2%

Households

1,711

Family households

1,131

66.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

431

38.1% of families

Single-mother families

21

1.9% of families

Veterans

271

8.5% of civilians 18+

• Mainline Protestant 1,207 30.5%
• Evangelical Protestant 1,186 30.0%
• Catholic 691 17.5%

Health insured

86.5%

±5.3 pp

Uninsured

13.5%

±5.3 pp

200th of 254

With a disability

24.9%

±5.4 pp

16th of 254

Bachelor's or higher

38.8%

±8.5 pp

+5.0 pp vs TX · 13th of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

25.6%

90% interval 23.3%–27.9% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

452nd 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

Brady, Junction, Mason, Menard, Rocksprings

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

2

62.56 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

2