Jury Pool Profile

Nueces County, Texas

Republican +12 (2024)

Population: 352,829
Median household income: $66,021
Unemployment: 4.3%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 193,284 54.8%
Black or African American alone 14,126 4.0%
Asian alone 8,322 2.4%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 1,554 0.4%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 99 0.0%
Some other race alone 19,076 5.4%
Two or more races 116,368 33.0%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 219,138 62.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 36.8

Under 18 84,438 23.9%
18–24 34,635 9.8%
25–44 95,680 27.1%
45–64 82,996 23.5%
65 and over 55,080 15.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.3%; +0.11 pp vs. state
County GDP: $27.9B; 1.01% of state
Avg. annual pay: $60,476
Establishments: 8,568

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 46,220 28.2%
Trade, transportation & utilities 30,185 18.4%
Leisure & hospitality 22,359 13.7%
Professional & business services 16,707 10.2%
Construction 16,517 10.1%
Manufacturing 9,511 5.8%
Financial activities 7,682 4.7%
Public administration 4,691 2.9%
Other services 4,306 2.6%
Natural resources & mining 2,527 1.5%
Information 1,151 0.7%
Unclassified 76 0.0%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 59.9%
Median gross rent: $1,224
Owner-occupied: 78,303
Renter-occupied: 52,467

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 121,614 votes cast

Republican 67,201 55.3%
Democratic 53,248 43.8%
Other / third-party 1,165 1.0%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

67.2% speak only English at home

Spanish 99,756 30.1%
Tagalog 1,830 0.6%
Other Indo-European 1,786 0.5%
Chinese 1,023 0.3%
Other Asian/Pacific 846 0.3%
Vietnamese 760 0.2%
Slavic languages 582 0.2%
German 547 0.2%
Korean 535 0.2%
French (incl. Cajun) 413 0.1%
Other 285 0.1%
Arabic 153 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 130,770
Family households: 88,690; 67.8% of households
Married w/ children: 58,822
Single-mother households: 11,006
Veterans: 23,278; 8.7% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

63.8% overall adherence rate

Catholic 142,109 40.2%
Evangelical Protestant 59,860 16.9%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 10,086 2.9%
Mainline Protestant 9,962 2.8%
Black Protestant 3,068 0.9%
Orthodox 275 0.1%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 82.4%
With a disability: 13.8%
Bachelor's or higher: 23.7%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 28th District Court
Judges: 13 (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: Corpus Christi

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 45; 16.77 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 42

NHTSA FARS 2023