Jury Pool Profile

McLennan County, Texas

Republican +31 (2024)

Population: 263,608
Median household income: $63,888
Unemployment: 4.0%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 167,794 63.7%
Black or African American alone 37,077 14.1%
Asian alone 4,233 1.6%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 1,366 0.5%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 130 0.0%
Some other race alone 9,759 3.7%
Two or more races 43,249 16.4%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 70,219 26.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 34

Under 18 63,669 24.2%
18–24 37,806 14.3%
25–44 65,710 24.9%
45–64 56,642 21.5%
65 and over 39,781 15.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.0%; -0.27 pp vs. state
County GDP: $18.5B; 0.67% of state
Avg. annual pay: $60,387
Establishments: 6,039

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 31,600 25.8%
Trade, transportation & utilities 23,497 19.2%
Manufacturing 15,864 12.9%
Leisure & hospitality 14,089 11.5%
Professional & business services 11,832 9.6%
Construction 8,634 7.0%
Financial activities 7,664 6.2%
Public administration 4,278 3.5%
Other services 2,740 2.2%
Information 778 0.6%
Natural resources & mining 410 0.3%
Unclassified 48 0.0%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 61.2%
Median gross rent: $1,106
Owner-occupied: 58,703
Renter-occupied: 37,263

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 99,490 votes cast

Republican 64,606 64.9%
Democratic 33,863 34.0%
Other / third-party 1,021 1.0%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

81.0% speak only English at home

Spanish 41,221 16.7%
Other Indo-European 1,198 0.5%
German 812 0.3%
Vietnamese 698 0.3%
Other Asian/Pacific 598 0.2%
Other 509 0.2%
Chinese 501 0.2%
Tagalog 364 0.1%
Slavic languages 307 0.1%
Arabic 274 0.1%
Korean 196 0.1%
French (incl. Cajun) 181 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 95,966
Family households: 63,125; 65.8% of households
Married w/ children: 44,999
Single-mother households: 6,908
Veterans: 14,352; 7.2% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

57.3% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 71,310 27.4%
Catholic 51,599 19.8%
Mainline Protestant 14,180 5.4%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 6,122 2.3%
Black Protestant 5,938 2.3%
Orthodox 252 0.1%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 86.2%
With a disability: 13.4%
Bachelor's or higher: 27.8%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 19th District Court
Judges: 5 (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: Waco

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 34; 17.01 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 32

NHTSA FARS 2023