Jury Pool Profile

Mason County, Texas

Republican +65 (2024)

Population: 3,951
Median household income: $68,750
Unemployment: 3.6%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 3,342 84.6%
Black or African American alone 3 0.1%
Asian alone 29 0.7%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 0 0.0%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
Some other race alone 274 6.9%
Two or more races 303 7.7%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 826 20.9%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 46.5

Under 18 914 23.1%
18–24 256 6.5%
25–44 796 20.1%
45–64 777 19.7%
65 and over 1,208 30.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.6%; -0.57 pp vs. state
County GDP: $155.6M; 0.01% of state
Avg. annual pay: $45,962
Establishments: 184

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Trade, transportation & utilities 257 22.2%
Leisure & hospitality 119 10.3%
Natural resources & mining 118 10.2%
Construction 93 8.0%
Education & health services 85 7.3%
Professional & business services 72 6.2%
Financial activities 60 5.2%
Manufacturing 33 2.9%
Other services 29 2.5%
Public administration 10 0.9%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 75.9%
Median gross rent: $751
Owner-occupied: 1,176
Renter-occupied: 374

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 2,526 votes cast

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

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

80.9% speak only English at home

Spanish 600 16.5%
German 68 1.9%
Other Indo-European 25 0.7%
Tagalog 4 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 1,550
Family households: 1,075; 69.4% of households
Married w/ children: 968
Single-mother households: 45
Veterans: 173; 5.7% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

78.0% overall adherence rate

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

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 85.8%
With a disability: 18.6%
Bachelor's or higher: 40.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

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

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 1; 32.93 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 1

NHTSA FARS 2023