Matagorda County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 15,025 41.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 15,889 43.7%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 3,511 9.7%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 594 1.6%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 959 2.6%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 21 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 16 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 314 0.9%

• Under 18 9,284 25.6%
• 18–24 2,807 7.7%
• 25–44 8,989 24.7%
• 45–64 8,642 23.8%
• 65 and over 6,607 18.2%

Median household income

$65,319

90% interval $60,247–$70,391

−$14,404 vs TX · 128th of 254

Below poverty line

14.8%

90% interval 10.9%–18.7%

+1.4 pp vs TX · 125th of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.8%

+1.46 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.9B

0.1% of state

Avg. annual pay

$68,644

Establishments

803

• Trade, transportation & utilities 3,021 26.3%
• Education & health services 2,598 22.6%
• Manufacturing 1,487 12.9%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,283 11.2%
• Construction 764 6.6%
• Professional & business services 670 5.8%
• Natural resources & mining 436 3.8%
• Public administration 341 3.0%
• Financial activities 338 2.9%
• Other services 248 2.2%
• Information 121 1.1%
• Unclassified 16 0.1%

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

Home ownership

68.1%

+5.5 pp vs TX · 190th of 254

Median gross rent

$999

−$404 vs TX · 105th of 254

Owner-occupied

10,515

Renter-occupied

4,924

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 62% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Manufacturing, $108,999/yr) pays 5.0× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $21,964/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 14 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 9,957 74.8%
• Democratic 3,231 24.3%
• Other / third-party 120 0.9%

• Spanish 8,417 24.9%
• Vietnamese 261 0.8%
• German or other West Germanic 140 0.4%
• Tagalog 62 0.2%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 22 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 18 0.1%

Households

15,439

Family households

9,832

63.7% of households

Married couples w/ children

2,559

26.0% of families

Single-mother families

716

7.3% of families

Veterans

2,151

8% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 9,676 26.7%
• Catholic 7,463 20.6%
• Mainline Protestant 1,663 4.6%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 770 2.1%
• Black Protestant 640 1.8%

Health insured

82.1%

±2.4 pp

Uninsured

17.9%

±2.4 pp

98th of 254

With a disability

17.5%

±2.4 pp

91st of 254

Bachelor's or higher

22.2%

±2.6 pp

−11.6 pp vs TX · 101st of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

20.3%

90% interval 18.5%–22.1% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

23rd 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

Angleton, Bay City, Wharton

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

12

44.37 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

11