Nacogdoches County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 37,202 57.1%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 14,101 21.6%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 10,724 16.5%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 554 0.9%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 2,242 3.4%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 103 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 26 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 210 0.3%

• Under 18 15,182 23.3%
• 18–24 11,864 18.2%
• 25–44 14,651 22.5%
• 45–64 13,223 20.3%
• 65 and over 10,242 15.7%

Median household income

$55,767

90% interval $50,969–$60,565

−$23,956 vs TX · 209th of 254

Below poverty line

21.9%

90% interval 18.8%–25.0%

+8.5 pp vs TX · 25th of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.8%

+0.46 pp vs. state

County GDP

$3.7B

0.14% of state

Avg. annual pay

$50,317

Establishments

1,417

• Education & health services 5,385 23.9%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 3,621 16.1%
• Manufacturing 3,300 14.7%
• Leisure & hospitality 3,109 13.8%
• Professional & business services 1,344 6.0%
• Construction 1,001 4.4%
• Financial activities 991 4.4%
• Other services 619 2.7%
• Natural resources & mining 562 2.5%
• Public administration 465 2.1%
• Information 194 0.9%
• Unclassified 16 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 91.5% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

59.3%

−3.3 pp vs TX · 237th of 254

Median gross rent

$965

−$438 vs TX · 121st of 254

Owner-occupied

14,993

Renter-occupied

10,309

• Diversified

  Top three sectors employ 55% of the workforce, a relatively diversified local economy. Expect mixed employer backgrounds on the panel rather than concentration in any one institution or industry.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Information, $75,556/yr) pays 4.6× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $16,535/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 16 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 17,575 69.0%
• Democratic 7,690 30.2%
• Other / third-party 205 0.8%

• Spanish 9,631 15.7%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 101 0.2%
• German or other West Germanic 97 0.2%
• Vietnamese 92 0.2%
• Chinese 61 0.1%
• Tagalog 56 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 49 0.1%
• Arabic 30 0.0%
• Korean 13 0.0%

Households

25,302

Family households

15,959

63.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

4,245

26.6% of families

Single-mother families

1,957

12.3% of families

Veterans

2,942

5.9% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 19,903 30.8%
• Catholic 8,000 12.4%
• Black Protestant 4,298 6.6%
• Mainline Protestant 2,262 3.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,615 2.5%
• Orthodox 15 0.0%

Health insured

84.6%

±1.3 pp

Uninsured

15.4%

±1.3 pp

158th of 254

With a disability

15.6%

±1.4 pp

127th of 254

Bachelor's or higher

28.2%

±2.1 pp

−5.6 pp vs TX · 47th of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

22.2%

90% interval 20.4%–24.0% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

145th 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

Nacogdoches

Traffic fatalities

11

22.01 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

10