Jury Pool Profile
Mitchell County, Texas
- County seat
- Colorado City
- Judicial district
- 32nd District Court
- Population (July 2025 estimate)
- 8,947
- Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 9,018.
At a glance
Mitchell County is an 8,947-person venue. The county population is 61% White and 8% Black (Census race-alone categories). 39% identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race. Those figures overlap rather than adding up; counted separately, non-Hispanic White residents are 46.8%, which is the basis the chart below uses. Median household income is $59,370, $20,353 below the TX state median of $79,723; 11.5% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 21.7% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, most commonly Spanish. The largest employment sector is Education & health services, at 25.7% of covered employment, average pay $58,071/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.28%, below the 4.32% state average. The county carried the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking 81% to 85% of the vote across the three. At least 16% of residents here live in group quarters rather than households, barracks, dormitories, correctional facilities or nursing homes; the ACS survey and the 2020 census disagree on how many, and this is the lower of the two, so the figures above describe a population substantially larger than the one a summons reaches.
- Population
- 9,018
- Median household income
- $60,550
- Unemployment
- 3.3%
Who sits on a jury?
50–70% White and ≥15% Black. This county: 61% / 8%.
Mitchell County has a population of 9,018, with a median age of 36.7. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 61.4%; Black residents 8.5%. Independently, 38.8% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.
The median household earns $59,370; 11.5% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 22.1% live below the federal poverty line.
Economic context
Largest sector in BLS QCEW, even counting every withheld job toward the other sectors: Education & health services, about 26% of covered jobs. Oil and gas (private NAICS 211, 213111, 213112) is about 9.8% of all jobs, at or above the 5% bar.
Education & health services is the largest employment sector at 25.7% of covered employment, followed by Natural resources & mining at 15.5%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.28%, below the Texas state average.
Political composition
Republican candidate carried this county in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (avg winning share: 84%). 'Strongly' threshold: ≥60% avg.
Mitchell County was carried by the Republican candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 85.3% in 2024, 84.1% in 2020, 81.3% in 2016.
Languages, households, faith & health
Family households are 65% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 21.7% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).
21.7% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, Tagalog, Russian, Polish, or other Slavic. Veterans account for 5.6% of the adult civilian population (399 individuals).