Nolan County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 7,773 53.8%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5,404 37.4%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 384 2.7%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 13 0.1%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 732 5.1%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 98 0.7%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 50 0.3%

• Under 18 3,667 25.4%
• 18–24 1,329 9.2%
• 25–44 3,250 22.5%
• 45–64 3,385 23.4%
• 65 and over 2,823 19.5%

Median household income

$57,566

90% interval $51,368–$63,764

−$22,157 vs TX · 192nd of 254

Below poverty line

19.7%

90% interval 15.9%–23.5%

+6.3 pp vs TX · 41st of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.0%

−0.28 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.2B

0.04% of state

Avg. annual pay

$59,954

Establishments

418

• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,416 22.9%
• Education & health services 1,402 22.7%
• Manufacturing 1,220 19.8%
• Leisure & hospitality 670 10.8%
• Public administration 267 4.3%
• Natural resources & mining 256 4.1%
• Construction 251 4.1%
• Financial activities 187 3.0%
• Professional & business services 139 2.3%

The sectors listed cover 94.0% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

68.1%

+5.5 pp vs TX · 191st of 254

Median gross rent

$913

−$490 vs TX · 149th of 254

Owner-occupied

4,008

Renter-occupied

1,878

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 65% 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.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Natural resources & mining, $87,881/yr) pays 4.5× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $19,473/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 15 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 4,048 79.2%
• Democratic 1,020 19.9%
• Other / third-party 46 0.9%

• Spanish 2,824 20.8%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 23 0.2%
• German or other West Germanic 20 0.1%
• Korean 7 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 2 0.0%

Households

5,886

Family households

3,747

63.7% of households

Married couples w/ children

756

20.2% of families

Single-mother families

656

17.5% of families

Veterans

655

6.1% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 4,012 27.2%
• Catholic 2,342 15.9%
• Mainline Protestant 1,338 9.1%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 572 3.9%
• Black Protestant 316 2.1%

Health insured

86.7%

±2.1 pp

Uninsured

13.3%

±2.1 pp

205th of 254

With a disability

19.7%

±2.2 pp

55th of 254

Bachelor's or higher

16.0%

±2.7 pp

−17.8 pp vs TX · 191st of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

17.4%

90% interval 15.7%–19.1% · Census SAHIE

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

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

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

6

55.62 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

5