Newton County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 8,971 74.2%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 439 3.6%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 2,097 17.3%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 86 0.7%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 460 3.8%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 14 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 21 0.2%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 5 0.0%

• Under 18 2,323 19.2%
• 18–24 895 7.4%
• 25–44 2,584 21.4%
• 45–64 3,452 28.5%
• 65 and over 2,839 23.5%

Median household income

$55,560

90% interval $49,199–$61,921

−$24,163 vs TX · 211th of 254

Below poverty line

17.5%

90% interval 13.1%–21.9%

+4.1 pp vs TX · 67th of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

6.4%

+2.06 pp vs. state

County GDP

$576.3M

0.02% of state

Avg. annual pay

$47,347

Establishments

136

• Education & health services 563 46.5%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 228 18.8%
• Public administration 98 8.1%
• Natural resources & mining 94 7.8%
• Professional & business services 70 5.8%
• Unclassified 1 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 87.0% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

82.9%

+20.3 pp vs TX · 20th of 254

Median gross rent

$1,001

−$402 vs TX · 104th of 254

Owner-occupied

4,011

Renter-occupied

830

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 73% of the county workforce. Most panelists likely share employer relationships within these sectors, surface those connections early in voir dire before any institutional-defendant or sector-specific framing.

• Compressed wage spread

  Highest-paid sector pays only 1.6× the lowest ($68,864 vs $42,448/yr), a relatively flat local wage distribution.

• Small-business scale

  Average establishment employs only 8.9 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

• Republican 4,781 83.2%
• Democratic 952 16.6%
• Other / third-party 16 0.3%

• Spanish 204 1.8%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 99 0.9%
• Chinese 50 0.4%
• German or other West Germanic 11 0.1%
• Vietnamese 1 0.0%

Households

4,841

Family households

3,194

66.0% of households

Married couples w/ children

744

23.3% of families

Single-mother families

164

5.1% of families

Veterans

643

6.6% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 3,141 25.7%
• Black Protestant 844 6.9%
• Catholic 150 1.2%
• Mainline Protestant 132 1.1%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1 0.0%

Health insured

80.8%

±3 pp

Uninsured

19.2%

±3 pp

69th of 254

With a disability

17.2%

±2.3 pp

95th of 254

Bachelor's or higher

6.8%

±1.8 pp

−27.0 pp vs TX · 253rd of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

21.4%

90% interval 19.3%–23.5% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

1st 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

Hemphill, Jasper, Newton, San Augustine, Woodville

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

6

61.41 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

5