McLennan County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 143,918 54.1%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 71,761 27.0%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 35,929 13.5%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 4,499 1.7%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 8,694 3.3%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 368 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 44 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 854 0.3%

• Under 18 63,736 24.0%
• 18–24 38,018 14.3%
• 25–44 66,922 25.2%
• 45–64 56,620 21.3%
• 65 and over 40,771 15.3%

Median household income

$68,096

90% interval $64,392–$71,800

−$11,627 vs TX · 103rd of 254

Below poverty line

16.2%

90% interval 14.1%–18.3%

+2.8 pp vs TX · 87th of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.1%

−0.2 pp vs. state

County GDP

$18.5B

0.67% of state

Avg. annual pay

$63,483

Establishments

5,967

• Education & health services 30,863 25.1%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 23,246 18.9%
• Manufacturing 15,969 13.0%
• Leisure & hospitality 14,178 11.5%
• Professional & business services 11,077 9.0%
• Construction 8,795 7.2%
• Financial activities 7,979 6.5%
• Public administration 4,209 3.4%
• Other services 2,742 2.2%
• Information 784 0.6%
• Natural resources & mining 519 0.4%
• Unclassified 81 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 97.9% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

61.8%

−0.8 pp vs TX · 230th of 254

Median gross rent

$1,173

−$230 vs TX · 46th of 254

Owner-occupied

60,155

Renter-occupied

37,183

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 57% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Professional & business services, $83,058/yr) pays 3.4× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $24,613/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 21 workers, typical of an institutional-employer economy where large hospitals, plants, schools, and government agencies dominate. Expect many panelists to share an employer rather than work for themselves.

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

• Spanish 42,621 17.1%
• Vietnamese 1,154 0.5%
• German or other West Germanic 750 0.3%
• Chinese 481 0.2%
• Korean 361 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 327 0.1%
• Tagalog 323 0.1%
• Arabic 271 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 270 0.1%

Households

97,338

Family households

63,694

65.4% of households

Married couples w/ children

18,293

28.7% of families

Single-mother families

6,775

10.6% of families

Veterans

14,566

7.2% of civilians 18+

• 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%

Health insured

85.8%

±0.9 pp

Uninsured

14.2%

±0.9 pp

184th of 254

With a disability

13.5%

±0.7 pp

190th of 254

Bachelor's or higher

28.7%

±1.3 pp

−5.1 pp vs TX · 43rd of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

18.3%

90% interval 17.0%–19.6% · Census SAHIE

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

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

Traffic fatalities

22

10.87 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

22