Orange County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 65,488 76.8%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 8,216 9.6%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 6,462 7.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 953 1.1%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 3,623 4.2%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 116 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 88 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 361 0.4%

• Under 18 21,636 25.4%
• 18–24 6,844 8.0%
• 25–44 22,267 26.1%
• 45–64 20,791 24.4%
• 65 and over 13,769 16.1%

Median household income

$72,841

90% interval $67,484–$78,198

−$6,882 vs TX · 71st of 254

Below poverty line

13.8%

90% interval 11.0%–16.6%

+0.4 pp vs TX · 153rd of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.0%

+0.69 pp vs. state

County GDP

$5.9B

0.21% of state

Avg. annual pay

$67,812

Establishments

1,454

• Trade, transportation & utilities 5,161 20.3%
• Manufacturing 4,814 19.0%
• Education & health services 4,431 17.4%
• Construction 2,852 11.2%
• Leisure & hospitality 2,688 10.6%
• Professional & business services 2,602 10.2%
• Financial activities 852 3.4%
• Public administration 755 3.0%
• Other services 741 2.9%
• Natural resources & mining 64 0.3%
• Information 21 0.1%
• Unclassified 6 0.0%

The sectors listed cover 98.4% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

75.2%

+12.6 pp vs TX · 119th of 254

Median gross rent

$1,100

−$303 vs TX · 63rd of 254

Owner-occupied

24,383

Renter-occupied

8,054

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 57% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Manufacturing, $116,137/yr) pays 5.0× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $23,038/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 17 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 30,191 83.1%
• Democratic 5,945 16.4%
• Other / third-party 192 0.5%

• Spanish 4,378 5.5%
• Vietnamese 262 0.3%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 249 0.3%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 104 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 96 0.1%
• Tagalog 82 0.1%
• Chinese 32 0.0%
• Arabic 16 0.0%
• Korean 12 0.0%

Households

32,437

Family households

23,088

71.2% of households

Married couples w/ children

6,998

30.3% of families

Single-mother families

2,463

10.7% of families

Veterans

4,479

7% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 31,731 37.4%
• Catholic 10,759 12.7%
• Mainline Protestant 2,557 3.0%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,428 2.9%
• Black Protestant 2,112 2.5%

Health insured

85.1%

±1.7 pp

Uninsured

14.9%

±1.7 pp

169th of 254

With a disability

16.4%

±1.1 pp

108th of 254

Bachelor's or higher

17.7%

±1.6 pp

−16.1 pp vs TX · 165th of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

13.1%

90% interval 11.9%–14.3% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

128th 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

Orange

Traffic fatalities

15

23.56 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

14