Jury Pool Profile

Mitchell County, Texas

Republican +71 (2024)

Population: 8,989
Median household income: $56,033
Unemployment: 3.3%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 5,779 64.3%
Black or African American alone 531 5.9%
Asian alone 136 1.5%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 97 1.1%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
Some other race alone 622 6.9%
Two or more races 1,824 20.3%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3,481 38.7%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 36.9

Under 18 1,666 18.5%
18–24 1,238 13.8%
25–44 2,448 27.2%
45–64 2,317 25.8%
65 and over 1,320 14.7%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.3%; -0.9 pp vs. state
County GDP: $467.6M; 0.02% of state
Avg. annual pay: $58,026
Establishments: 180

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 556 27.5%
Natural resources & mining 376 18.6%
Public administration 290 14.4%
Trade, transportation & utilities 249 12.3%
Leisure & hospitality 187 9.3%
Financial activities 182 9.0%
Professional & business services 40 2.0%
Other services 22 1.1%
Information 8 0.4%
Unclassified 5 0.2%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 79.5%
Median gross rent: $481
Owner-occupied: 2,037
Renter-occupied: 524

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 2,513 votes cast

Republican 2,144 85.3%
Democratic 352 14.0%
Other / third-party 17 0.7%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

79.2% speak only English at home

Spanish 1,665 19.5%
Tagalog 93 1.1%
Other Indo-European 11 0.1%
Other 7 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 2,561
Family households: 1,586; 61.9% of households
Married w/ children: 1,234
Single-mother households: 225
Veterans: 360; 4.9% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

74.3% overall adherence rate

Catholic 3,144 35.0%
Evangelical Protestant 2,945 32.8%
Mainline Protestant 513 5.7%
Black Protestant 76 0.8%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 79.6%
With a disability: 18.0%
Bachelor's or higher: 13.9%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 32nd 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: Colorado City, Roby, Sweetwater

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 4; 54.62 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 4

NHTSA FARS 2023